Westminster and twelve leonardtown and five fredericksburg and everybody off to cold start. No high temperatures above freezing. Ill have the details on this cold blast here to stay believe it or not next weekend. Coldest air yet arriving saturday and sunday. Details on that coming up. 13 this morning. High temps in the mid 20s. More weather back to you. Thanks, tuck, a few School Systems west of districts opening late today because of fridgeit temps, clark county, virginia schools on one hour delay this morning andal gapey and garrett countrys in maryland on two hour delays. And hampshire and West Virginia also delayed two hours and Orange County virginia schools you are on a two hour delay as well. Developing right now fox5 on top of major problems because of this major cold. South east d. C. A burst pipe flooded gas leak. Theres no electricity and theres no heat in crimeer middle school on q street in southeast and Melanie Alnwick is there. Shes live with the latest n now. Mel. Repo
Lets get right to d. C. s most accurate forecast. Topper has his eye on some snow headed our way. We know that make you pretty excited, top. Any changes to that track yet . Maybe a little further west. We have the first ingredient and thats cold air. Thats in place. Well talk about winter storm watches already posted for our friends at the shore. That includes ocean city and georgetown, rehoboth and bethany beach. As i showed you earlier, we have winter storm warnings from norfolk down to northern florida. Thats pretty unusual, how far this cold air is sinking and how strong this storm will be. It will develop off the florida coast. A lot of times noreasters develop off the North Carolina coast. This will develop in the northern bahamas. Tracking a coastal storm, current track still most of the snow east of i95, critical time has not changed, midnight thursday to noon thursday and in the wake of the storm were talking not even wind chill as we get into friday night and maybe again on s
That will be changing as we go to the night tonight where we are expecting snow around midnight. Then into the morning commute. In terms to how much up to two inches of snow around the d. C. Metro. We break down the timing to talk about more specifics. Coming up later in the show, stick around, i will break down what the term is. The bomb cyclone specifically. We will have that in a little bit. Larry all right. We will talk to you soon. The 7 on your side team can alert you the moment the child school cancels or delays. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up. Alison i want to hear more about the bomb cyclone coming up. Schools across the area have been scrambling to cope with the bitter cold. Its taxing buses, Heating Systems and pipe as we soldier through another day where the temperatures hit zero in some part of the area. Stephen tschida is following a growing list of problems. Stephen the list continues the grow. You see this heap of you can see the moisture. Im telling you, it is very, v
To delmarva, all the way up to long island, not including the bureau of manhattan and up into the boston area, lets get in a little bit closer, what does a blizzard warning mean compared to the Winter Weather advisory that dc is in that parts of Lehigh County are in, montgomery county. Sustained winds will be over 35 Miles Per Hour loading be visibility be that will be rough at the coast. We expect gusts to 50 miles an hour and if you head on up to boston, that could be gusting to 60 or 70 miles an hour, so thats why some people are referring to this as nearly a winter hurricane. Where is the storm right now . We showed you some of the pictures, snow is trying to leave the charleston area and the snow is creeping into north korea. We dont care to see any snow because the air is very dry, after 1 00 in the morning, we could definitely see it. Can we run through the whats going to happen . Here we go, the snow tonight, if, as we see light snow coming on in, it will likely develop after 1
Fraer also on a two thundershower slay. St. Mary county schools are closed. Culpeper, fairfax and Fauquier County will be closed tomorrow. You can final the complete list of closures at the bottom of your screen sdmrlt latest on the storm known as bomb cyclone. Not that were meaning to scare anybody with that. It promotes fear in some people. Awhat it means we have a powerful nor easter that strengthen the rapidly and bombing storage is where we see mill i wars 20 in 24 this does more than that as a result of that the coast will take a penalty from wind and snow as we go forward and thats why there are bliz artd wangz for the coast and Winter Weather advisory in the purple for d. C. Area and winter storm warnings pour heavier snow between advisory and blizzard built, wow, its all right getting going and looks like everything is on electronic. And that light snow is beginning to great out now. We all know some of you have seen it and many of you have not. I looked outside the station in