If it was 25 today, it could be 40 degrees colder than that or at least feel 40 degrees colder by friday morning. Thats the kind of cold air were talking about. Doug, thank you. Its hard to keep the chill from getting into the house right now. You probably needed an extra layer at work, too. Its the same at some local schools. Check out this retweet from our scott macfarlane. It shows 48 degrees inside a Montgomery County classroom today. But for another School District, the trouble started even before the bell rang. News4s Meagan Fitzgerald is in Fairfax County. Meagan, what was the issue with the buses . Reporter well, Fairfax County officials tell us the problem is the school buses have been sitting outside in the freezing cold weather like they are behind me here for the last two weeks while students were on winter break. So, this morning when they started them up, some of them didnt turnover. Others broke down later. But this is just one of several issues we saw in School District
Were here at the d. C. Department of public works storm team 4 command center. The employees will be looking at these monitors. There are nine of them. If you notice, theyll sometimes go to black and what they are doing, this is realtime live video from major intersections throughout the district. For example, we have florida avenue, bening road, pennsylvania avenue, first street and potomac avenue southeast. Around 8 00, that is when the snow table will send out the trucks to pretreat the roads with salt brine and then 200 trucks will be deployed. If youre out and about, stay away. Give these guys and women working out there time and room so that they can get t make the roads safer for all of us. Youre now going to hear from the d. C. Department of public works director. Lets hear what he has to say. We have had very dangerously low temperatures. Any amount of precipitation can create ice and black ice, whether its half an inch tomorrow or, like i said, it can affect traffic. Reporter
Of them shut down fort day. Federal workers started workday late or worked from home. And along with windy conditions temps expectsed to drop. So we start to meteorologist chuck bell to inform us where we go from here if this is coming to an end where do we go from here. Once it comes to an end, bombs and temperatures fall into the single numbers for the next couple of mornings, all monitor ocean storm here looks a lot like a hurricane because thats how its behaving. Winds off the coast are near 70mileperhour. Ocean city have both had winds gusting over 60mileperhour at times. And we are on the far western edge of any accumulated snow chance. Most of the d. C. Metro area has only had an inch or two. Generally speaking around the i95 corridor. A better higher accumulation for prince georgia, charles, san stast. Marys county. Gusting to 40mileperhour and wind chills down in the numbers. A lot of things but not going to be warm any time soon. I am going to show you extended forecast comin
Were all under a wind chill advisory tonight. It starts at 10 00, but its already on the cold side. Right on through noon tomorrow. We wouldnt be surprised to see it go into tomorrow night and saturday morning, too. Another wind chill advisory then. Look at the wind chills, 11 below 0 pittsburgh, 8 degrees currently in washington. So, we could be 20 degrees colder than this by early tomorrow morning, and its frigid outside already. Much more on the wind chill, what to wake up to tomorrow, when we may see some relief from this cold temperatures coming up in just a couple minutes. All right. Well see you soon. Thank you, doug. If todays snowy conditions have you dreaming about a day at the beach, well, this probably isnt what you had in mind. Blizzard conditions in ocean city today. They got hit hard, leaving the popular beach town practically unrecognizable, covered with um to a foot of snow in some spots at the beach. Mds governor declared a state of emergency saying its going to take
Delayed two hours. Frederick county, virginia, will be closed, too. We are running the other closures and delays at the bottom of your screen. Lets get over now to the storm center. Doug and amelia, when is this ending . Well, guys, you mentioned the schools. A lot more are going to continue to close. I just got word of a couple others im sure well be putting screen. Were tracking the storm. The snow is gone and into the cold and that will be here a couple days. I think it is a good idea for the schools to close based on how cold its going to feel. You look at this storm, how expansive it is, look at the snow shield. From Virginia Beach all the way into canada. For us the snow has now ended. It is moving out, but it is the cold that the now racing in behind it. You can see lake effect snow. Lake effect streamers coming all the way down towards portions of our northwestern zones tonight. The wind advisory still in effect until 7 00. We are looking at the wind Northern Virginia, almost a