Adding up to maybe one to three or four inches of sleet and snow combined. Current temperatures are just hanging around the freezing mark in the metro area. Down south Southern Maryland is above freezing. Outside today temperatures near 30 with a wintry mix of nearly anything Mother Nature can throw at us this morning. A snowball fight starts around 10 00 this morning. It will be windy. Snow flurries off and on through much of the day. Windchills will stay in the 20s all day today. But by tomorrow morning, windchills down into the single numbers and teens, and windchills will stay in the teens all day tomorrow. So windy and cold weather is here for the duration. A check on the storm team 4 radar with where the rain snow line is lets go over to sheena. That line has been fluctuating so weve been seeing areas of icy mix, areas of a rain snow type mix but what we are looking at now is some very heavy precipitation looking into Calvert County approaching Charles County and we are long of a
At this point. Prince william county. Manassas city schools are closed today. Fairfax county schools, d. C. Schools, prince georges and Montgomery County schools are opening two hours late. In maryland, frederick county, charles county, anne arundel and Washington County schools are also on a twohour delay. Loudoun, shenandoah and culpepper county schools are opening two hours late as well. In west virginia, berkeley, hampshire, hardy and grant schools are on a twohour delay. Allegheny county schools in maryland are closed for a Staff Professional Development day. Thats why its purple on the map. Not because of weather. We are waiting to hear from everything thats in gray here. Of course, all the School Closings and delays are scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Federal agencies in the today on time were told. The office of Personnel Management says employees are expected to report to their work sites or start telework today. Sheena, why dont you start us off this morning . It is c
[000 00 58;00] you do want to dress like an eskimo as chuck said and as we go through the day today, its not going to even feel like freezing. Its going to feel colder. And were talking about that wind advisory too. So coming up in just a bit, chuck and i will be back with a closer look at your frigid forecast but now lets check the roads on this wednesday morning. Do we have any ice out there . We do have some problems here and there. We saw that driving in this morning. But right now i would say in general, sheena, the main roads are looking quite good. Were really talking more about the sidewalks and the driveways and maybe the lesser used roads in your neighborhood. Beltway right now is looking good. 66 and 95 dont have any problem there this morning. Cedarville road east of 301, were blocked each way because of those downed wires right now. Bradley pole. Adam is headed to that scene here this morning so what are you seeing . Reporter take a look at the windshield camera here. This
You can find those on social media and youll see them scroll oncoyour screen this morning as well. Back over to you guys. All right. Thank you. We have a lot mf Team Coverage to get to this morning. Well hear from our crews on the roads but first the storm team 4 forecast from Sheena Parveen and chuck bell. Good morning. Good morning. It is freezing out there. Temperatures are feeling like Single Digits in some areas and chuck is outside this morning to show you just how cold its feeling. Hes on the patio, but as far as that windchill is concerned were talking about it feeling like again mentioned, Single Digits. The wind is whipping out there gusting near 40 Miles Per Hour. We have areas of ice that were talking about this morning so thats going to be the biggest concern outside. 23 degrees but its going to be feeling a lot colder. 28 degrees by noon. Watch out for ice all day today because temperatures will be staying below freezing all day. Well be blustery. Winds will be gusting li
Temperatures now. It is 5 degrees for your plants even with full sunshine, most towns in the 50s. 57 bedford, it is 60 in norwood, those are a couple milder spots. But the bottom line is this, the temperatures will continue to drop overnight to tonight. On top, we have wind blowing out out north. A wiferred continues out here on the cape cod and the islands because of those wind gusts which have been up over 50 Miles Per Hour. Look at the wind gusts we have seen so far during the day today i. Makes it feel colr. Which allows the temperature to drop more quickly, thats what we are watching for tonight. But, in edgartown, 58 Miles Per Hour wind gusts . Look at nantucket, 58 as well. All these Tropical Storm strength, clearly matthew didnt that loop backwards toward florida and the bahamas, went in the ocean and rolled the front up to us, off shore, bringing heavy rain and gusty wind as well. Now the temperatures are dropping tonight. I will show you where the freeze warnings and freeze t