Want to be because it is dangerous cold here. Mark over to Will Stafford for the very latest. Will how is it going, mark. Any time you get below 10 degrees it feels really cold any way you look at it. From our lynchburg tower camera. Our current air temperature at 28. We got to thinking how long we have been below freezing. Been below freezing for a minimum of 72 hours. It may be longer than that. Keep a few flurries around until 8 00 things will eventually quiet down. Decreasing clouds and low temperatures tonight eventually going down into the teens. Watch it clear and very cold conditions overnight. Single digits and negative wind chills. That cold will continue for tomorrow afternoon and we are also talking about the s word. The full forecast coming up in a little bit. Mark will, thanks. To katie brooke live in brookneal with the latest on fire that destroyed the old dan river plant. Katie . Reporter mark, there is still a haze over the entire town. Reminding everyone of the law he
Thats all for wsls. d the mountains, even with a few making it farther east beyond the blue ridge. That us later tonight, but through the evening we will still have the chance for some snow showers. A coating 2 is possible in the nrv and highlands even perhaps into the Higher Elevations of the Roanoke Valley, with a dusting possible in spots farther east. It was cold outside on friday, but at least the winds were not all that strong. However, they strengthen bigtime tonight. A wind chill advisory is in from nelson, amherst, bedford, franklin, and patrick counties and points west from 11 00pm tonight through sunday at 10 00am. Tonight mountain snow showers taper off late, skies clear after midnight. Cold turning windy with lows in the midtoupper teens. Wind chills will be below zero in the mountains. Saturday partly to mostly sunny blustery please bundle up with highs in the middle 20s. Sunday will see a mix of sun and clouds with highs in the midtoupper 20s. The winds should weaken lat
Saturday morning flurries possible. Increasing sunshine. Windy with highs in the middle 20s sunday valentines day starting mainly sunny. Ending mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 20s. Overnight snow possible monday snow, ice rain likely with highs in the lower 30s Tuesday Morning snow ice. Afternoon rain two men are in jail this afternoon following a large scale drug operation in lynchburg. After months of investigating. Lynchburg police and other Law Enforcement seized about 58 pounds of marijuana. Multiple vehicles and 65 thousand dollars. 58 year old Randall Simpson was arrested for possesion with intent to sell, give or distribute more than five pounds of marijuana. Hes being held without bond. 36 year old David Johnson was arrested for similar charges and is being held with a ten thousand dollar secure bond. Police continue investigating danville. Just after two this morning. Officers responded to a call on stonewall court. Police say a 21 year old man and 22year old woman were
Right now at 10 00, here we go again. Another round of Winter Weather threatening to interfere with your week. We have Live Team Coverage getting you ready for the storm. Then the investigation into a School Volunteer accused of videotaping children performing sex acts is expanding. Its got to be so horrible for them and my heart really goes out to them. Well hear from the church where one child was allegedly victimized. Plus new information on what caused the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the political battle already beginning to find his replacement. Fox 5 local news at 10 00 starts now. Im jim lokay. And im lauren demarco. We start off getting you ready for yet another round of snow. We have Live Team Coverage with Marina Marraco in leesburg and meteorologist gwen tolbart in the weather center. We will mary from marina in a moment. Has, whats the latest . Well, our models keep updating themselves and were going to have a look at some of the snow totals that we an
We have Team Coverage begins with gwen tolbart and the latest on the forecast. Weve got a combination of things happening and jim is right when we talk about the bitter cold conditions. We are actually into the 20s and the teens pretty much where we were yesterday, but also pretty much where our daytime highs were. Some 20 degrees below the seasonal average. Cold, gusty winds as well that pushed in from the northwest so wind chills became an issue. So here is clouds building in, light snow in the overnight hours and we are talking heavier snow by monday morning and a mix by monday night. Ice is a major concern as far as that goes. Rain and thunderstorms are a possibility once we get into the tuesday period in the morning. Now our overnight lows another night where theyre going to be in the Single Digits and that is another issue as well. And if you take a look at the highs for od at reagan national, 24 at dulles and only 24 at bwi thurgood marshall. The good news is the wind has subsid