So everything will freeze tonight. We are talking about the problems with ice. I do think the roads will be a problem once again tonight and then again tomorrow morning. But guys these temperatures they dont even tell the whole story. The wind chill is the big deal. Well talk about that coming up in a minute. Todays winter blast created some tricky situations for School Bus Drivers across our region. Our storm team 4 by 4 00 found buses struggling on the slick roads. In Prince William county. And a frightening ride for those students. A frustrating one for hundreds of thousands of others in fairfax, arlington and other Virginia School districts. The twitter hash tag, closefcps or close Fairfax County public schools, is still trending in our area right now. It was actually trending worldwide this morning. We gathered some of the post on the nbc washington Facebook Page and they were shared hundreds of times. News4s Mark Segraves is live in falls church with more on the frustration and s
Whats it looking like . Good morning. Still looks like a likelihood of snow moving in late this harch afternoon and overnight and much ending by dawn tomorrow. Take a looks. Areas in bright white moderate snow in werent kentucky tracking into West Virginia. Ahead of that the area in the light gray a few flurries trying to reach the ground but the area of accumulating snow still back in kentucky and still about seven hours away of getting closer to the metro area. Maybe it will be around 5 00 or 6 00 p. M. Before it moves on in. A few flurries maybe trying to reach the ground this gray area. Around charlottesville. Right now just a cloudy sky over the metro area and we have a big area under a winter storm warning that includes all of these counties in pink all of virginia the district most of maryland most of West Virginia starting 4 00 today until noon tuesday. The winter storm warning will be in effect. Barbara . All right, thank you, tom. Everyone in our area getting ready for that s
Slow. I drive slow. The story shifts to tonights bitter temperature drop and refreeze meaning a black ice danger overnight tonight and for the next couple days. Deep freeze, any water thats on the road untreated will refreeze. If you are about to hit the road, take care out there. Good afternoon, im pat lawson muse. Im Barbara Harrison in for jim hanley. Right now theres several inches on the ground in some places. School and federal government closed. Salt and sand crews out on the roads, there all day. No break for power crews struggling to restore electricity after sundays ice storm. Suddenly thousands more customers needing help. The next issue could be black ice. Our storm team predicts overnight temperatures will be below freezing and temperatures will stay low for the next two to three days. We have Team Coverage of our weather today and the new weather headline, bitter cold moving in. We begin with storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson. Bitter cold for sure. Were not just
And mount airy to 15 and the same over the fredericksburg. If you want to clean the sidewalks,it inow, because this is the time to get it. Yes, we will get more snow, but the windchills are going to be dropping below zero, and by midnight, and 5 to 10 or 15 degrees below zero by 5 00 tomorrow morning. And here it will feel like minus 2, and 4 below in hagerstown, and 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, mighty cold, and this is the latest blast of cold may rival and be colder than last one that we had about two weeks ago right here on the weather deck where it is 23 degrees, the current temperature, folks with the snow continuing to come down. Doug . Well, we will continue to see the snow for the next couple of hou hours, and we will break down the timing, and pick up from the west, the nine inches of snow and break it down for you and show you who has the most. And the winter storm is keeping many people in our area at home and work and school, because the travel is treacherous. But as we fou