Washington, well above freezing, but you see 32 leonardtown, 32 cambridge where it is snowing, our call on the snowfall apartments will be highest south and east of us where the winter storm warnings are in effect 4 00 to 6 00. Two to four along 95, west, just dusting to inch or two and thats through the day tomorrow. Now, still couple of hours away from the snow beginning here in washington but matt ackland has been out all day seeing how the city preparing, live in potomac maryland right now. Matt, do you think were ready for tomorrow . Do you think were ready for this winter. Caitlin, isnt it funny first snowfall of the season people are always so excited, everyone seems to be talking about it, and you know, officials no matter where you live in the district, here in maryland, and virginia, they know that it is so important to make sure that the roadways are clear, and if not, theyre going to hear about it from their constituents. So there has been flurry of activity today, getting
This is route 50 in salsbury, maryland. And this is the boardwalk tonight, it is coated in snow. In ocean city the snow is melting for now on the treated surfaces out there. Im doreen. Were still waiting to see our first flakes here in the district, how many times have you looked out the win koe tonight. We could see half an inch of snow. Lets start with dan. Were in a lull right now, but this was expected. We saw a pretty good burst of snow. Still snowy down there. Take a look at the radar right now. Much of what youre here excuse me. Sorry. Waldorf down toward fredericksburg. This is the area. St. Marys county in the Northern Neck will see the most. We also have a Winter Weather advisory now. Everybody off to the north and the west. Now it is also stafford and king gorge. Now what are we expecting here . Snow moving in by tonight and tomorrow morning. Well start seeing accumulations. Snowing just about all day once again where you live, that will depend on how much you get. I have ne
Those victims ended up in the northbound lanes. This is scene right now sky fox flying over the scene. Were told at least one person has been killed. Three others were injured as you can see this a lot of police and firefighter activity at that scene. Heres what you need to know. Traffic is shut down in the northbound local lanes of 270. Some traffic is getting by in the southbound local and main lanes. We have a reporter headed to the scene and well bring you alive update as soon as we get it. Breaking right now from capitol heights, maryland, several town homes caught fire tonight in the 1300 block of dillon court. The fire is out now and thankfully there are no injuries to report. Fox5 Lauren Demarco just getting on that scene and well check in with her in a moment. And now to that big Winter Weather alert were talking about tonight. A storm system stretching from boston to gulf of mexico is bringing first snowfall of the season. The snow already falling in some parts of d. C. Regio
And it will be know fall of the season. Its a saturday. And this is a snow that while not major or significant will have impacts out there for tomorrow. All right. Winter storm warnings upgraded for places like stafford and spotsylvania in virginia and since we were last on the area they include Southern Maryland where southern part of counties is snowing all days. Up into the Eastern Shore. Winter weather advisories in purple and that includes washington, baltimore and all 95 going into effect late last night and into tomorrow. Stormtracker whats not changed from where we were hours ago. A sharp cutoff life across Calvert County when you get to southern portions of st. Mary and descend that line cambridge to virginia you have steady snow. Its been sticking. We had reports of two plus inches in st. Mary country. Thats why through tomorrow. Temperatures are very marginal out there. 7 d. C. 34 gaithersburg and you see were hitting freezing norm and west and we have freezing greetings tow
Accumulate here until maybe 9 00 or 10 00 this morning. Were playing the waiting game. The air is relatively dry. The other issue is were just a little above freezing. We have a couple challenges first. But i have great confidence we should be able to get our first inch, maybe our first two or three inches of snow, before the day is done. I concur, chuck. During the 4 00 hour, we had a report at reagan we had light snow falling. This is not hitting the ground. We are, as chuck said, expecting to see some of the lighter snow start to pick up in the next couple of hours. Southern maryland at this point seeming to get a little break. Were going to be watching the zone closely. It could be getting mixed precip through the next coming hours. Heres what you may have missed while you were sleeping. We shifted the timing from the bulk of the snow in the metro area to midmorning. I hope you postponed a lot of e next phase of the weekend, which is going to be the colder air moving in. Ill be tra