Per hour. Even in kensington we showed you that on Parkwood Court. Again, no one hurt. A tree down. Just missed the house completely. Now we have to turn our attention to the winds. We talked about this all afternoon when we were covering the storms. When the storms are gone, thats great. Now we have winds to worry about. We have a wind advisory in effect until 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Goes into effect tonight for just about the entire metro area. Were talking wind gusts up to 50 to 55 Miles Per Hour. If it is trash night or recycle night, might want to put it out later. Maybe just skip a week. I dont know. 5 00 tonight, these are actual wind gusts gusting to 38 Miles Per Hour in manassas. 32 mileperhour wind gust downtown. On our future cast, this is a forecast of winds. This is 10 00 tonight. Winds gusting almost to 40 miles an hour across most of the metro area and then by morning looking at winds 43 Miles Per Hour in gaithersburg and frederick. Our own meteorologist melissa nord was o
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First alert live doppler. This is live scanning the skies. Were able to depict with this radar what kind of precipitation youre seeing out there. Are you seeing rain, are you seeing snow, and weve been talking about the rain snow mix for the past couple of days, how that would even the snow totals. That ended up setting over 95 and just northwest of 95. Weve got sleet happening, and its been falling all night. Youve probably heard it in d. C. Up toward Silver Spring towards gaithersburg and rockville. In german town youre seeing sleet mixing in. Back west into Fairfax County also seeing mainly sleet. You transition over from sleet into snow. Were seeing a snow sleet mixture in places like clarksburg and by the time you get to frederick its mainly snow at that point. The further south that you are the more warm air thats mixing in with this system so weve got rain, sleet in la plata. This is going to last for quite a while longer. I expect the intensity of the snow to continue picking u
Good morning. It is 7 00. Welcome to wusa9s extended winter storm coverage. Right now the powerful noreaster is making its way up the coast in a and a big mess is at hand in many places this morning. Yeah, snow, sleet, rain, we have seen it all. Its been falling all through the night and for some people the worst is yet to come so when you step outside you think where is it . Whats going on, its not over, folks. , plenty of it. Rain on the right side of your screen. The rainsnow mix is right over d. C. And then frederick and areas out west are pretty excited about getting some of the snow since we havent really had a lot of it this year. Im im dan zucker. Weve got all kinds of teams and neighborhoods showing you what its like in your area. Look at our big team right there. Topper shutt and melissa nord talking weather right now. We want to start with topper with an update on this forecast. Ive been here the whole time. I havent moved, really. [ laughter ] i widened this out. The storm
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