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Eastern shore. You can always download the nbc washington app. You could do that now from your phone. Our Team Coverage continues now with a look at how road crews are going to be going after this first snow of the season. News4s Mark Segraves is in montgomery county. Reporter take a look at i270 here in rockville. Things look great. We were seeing flurries here since about 3 00. About ten minutes ago the flurries and the wind completely died down. Now its just a clear, crisp evening. Crews have been working around the clock getting ready for whatever comes our way. Crews have been busy treating roads across our region all day. In the district, snow prep began yesterday. Weve been pretreating roads based on the current forecast from the National Weather its mostly been a hot mix of brine and beet juice. Reporter theyre getting ready in virginia as well where chopper 4 caught an aerial view of snow prep in action. Yesterday morning we were out brining all of our systems, the hot spots,
If you dont need to be on the roads, dont do it. Tonights not really one of those nights. These are the areas of biggest concern to the north, winchester, leesburg. Down to the south a winter storm watch for the saturday storm. Ill have it all coming up for you in about 15 minutes. Team coverage continue nos with a look at how road crews are getting ready for whatever snow falls. Reporter 270 behind ne me i rockville. Crews have been working around the clock preparing for this. Well be ready tonight. We have staff already coming on board. We will be ready with our crews tonight to prepare to take care of whatever snow co. Ready tonight to make sure tomorrow mornings rush haur is smooth as possible. There will be trucks out out major state roads and highways this afternoon prepping for that. We just ask folks to give those trucks a little bit of room, let them operate. As they spray that pretreating youll see a gray streak on the highways to let you know the pretreating has taken place.
Storm team 4 weather alert day. There is chuck belg telling us what we can expect heading outside today. Spill some excitement around. What little bit of snow weve had will be rapidly ending aa cross the area here. Snow is likely again starting tomorrow, probably about the time you wake up. The big winners tomorrow lk south and east of the washington area. Could get up to 4 inches of snow across Southern Maryland and weve got at least five days in a row of cold weather coming our way. For now, the last of the snowflakes are down around st. Marys county and calbert. Send me a picture with one inch of snow on the ground in eastern west virginia. Temperatures right now, only in the 20s and thirds and well stay up into the low 30ser melissa, you might get a peek of sunshine. That would be nice. Crossing my fingers. 95 southbound before 175, left lane gets by the crash. Otherwise, were quite quiet early this morning. That, again, is going to take time because of the fuel spill and the big m
Left to worried about for today. Blurries around this morning staying cold and dry for the rest of the tomorrow. Tomorrow, know looking more and more likely. There could be some problems around for tomorrow and as you get into sunday, very, very cold, indeed, with windchills down near 10 degrees during the day on sunday. Again, winter storm warnings down to our south and east. For more on that saturday snow chance, lets go over to sheena. Here is a look at we go into the weekend. Were looking at temperatures staying around freeze, but also some snow in the forecast for part of your saturday. Thats something well be watching very closely. As we go through time here, its all coming up from the gulf of mexico and it gets here saturday morning. Snow, we are on the leading edge of it and then were going to watch that snow for your saturday morning coming up. I will show you what you can expect as far as the totals crash with melissa. Take another look at this breaking news here with chopper