Temperatures over the next five or six hours will be as warm as theyre going to be until probably next monday. Yes, indeed. Near 50 degrees by lunchtime today before the arctic express comes rolling on into town. Temperatures will be doing the downward spiral by later on in the day today. Right now, skies mostly cloudy overhead. Temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. Winds out of south this morning. Theres a little bit of a windchill now. But thats nothing compared to whats coming our way. Currently, 37 in leesburg. 31 in Prince Georges County. 43 by the way in annapolis. Near 50 at lunchtime before it turns windy and colder. Northwest winds 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour later on. These are your 5 00 temperatures. Well be 50 at lunchtime. Martinsburg down to the freeding mark by 5 00 this afternoon. Washington down to 41 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Windchills as well. Heres your 5 00 windchills. Teens, 20s to 30 degrees. Bring that heavy winter coat on a check of the next couple of days which
30s and low 40s. Thats not too cold. By noon, temperature near 50. Thats when the northwest wind sets up shop. Temperatures back into the 30s as early as 5 00 this evening. Windchills back into the teens by early this evening. Be ready for a big drop in temperatures. Have your nbc washington app downloaded and ready to go with your custom tailored, storm team 4 forecast. You can follow me on social media and forecast for you on instagram. The cold weather is going to be here for a couple of days and snow chances as well. More about that part of the forecast coming up. For now, over to melissa. Good morning, chuck. Taking a look at whats going on around town. Silver spring, chopper 4 over this columbia pike after New Hampshire avenue. Right side of the roadway is closed off here right now. This was a pedestrian accident this morning. Police telling us that the right side should be locked for some time as they get that out of the way. One person being of there. 66, 95, overall looking ty
Temperatures will start to quickly drop behind that front. We are just hours away from that. So right now, on first alert live doppler, you can see some scattered showers out there. And nothing too impressive. But it is there. Theres snow already happening in western maryland and west virginia. Its light and then we can see the scattered showers just around the winchester area and also some along the Eastern Shore and around baltimore. Well continue to see this type of activity until that front pushes into the area. We know that its getting close because we can see the winds are coming from the west northwest around western maryland. So once we see that wind shift change, we know that that colder air has arrived. So far winds are still coming in from the south and so weve seen the temperatures holding off in the mid 40s. But by 2 00 p. M. , the temperatures will begin to drop. So this is whats on the way for us. This cold front packing some really cold air behind it. And it will become
Because of crash duke strot and metro turning out to be on time now. I have you covered steve and allison. Thank you very much. Election day in alabama. Voters head to the polls today in one of Biggest Senate races since the president ial election. Roy moore, doug jones battling it out for Jeff Sessions vacated senate seat. Bell mel is live on capitol hill this morning to break on the highly contested senate race, mel. Good morning, steve, allison. When senator Jeff Sessions long time senator from alabama was chosen as trumps pick for attorney general political analysts physical urd that was safe move because there was no way in their opinion that alabama voters would ever fill that seat with dem caxt now race is toss up. And that could mean a shakeup in the senate. And. Jm roy moore wouldnt say much about politics or sports or anything else last night outside final election eave cap pain question validity of recent polls and talk need to challenge establishment. Its difficult to drain
Won the senate seat and about the senate seat in alabama, beating roy moore. Lets listen in. In his about every one of you and your sons and daughters and all the volunteers who knocked on 300,000 doors. Alison once again, doug jones winnik. The big story gunshots shattering windows at a local Montgomery County mcdonalds. With fulls happening coverage coming up. First, we are on storm watch as we prepare for temperatures to plummet. Nancy we are talking bitter cold and the wind making it feel like Single Digits. Chief meteorologist bill kelly is here. Bill when you walk out, Mother Nature just it is one thing to say it is envelope, but when its this cold it downright dangerous and that is where we are tonight. The air temperature around the region, we are already chilly. 26 d. C. , 23 frederick. By themselves, they are down there, 21 winchester. But look at the wind, moving out of the northwest anywhere basically 15, if not 30. Leesburg, va gust of 35. Pax river 40 mileperhour wind gus