Teens everywhere. Highs only 23 degrees yesterday. Weve been below freezing a long time. Every surface on the ground is frozen solid. Chances for light rain coming after lunchtime. Any of that could easily stick and freeze. Handrails and bridges and overpasses likely to be crazy for the ride home. Prepare to leave work a little early today to be on the safe side. Ill show you future weather and talk about the chance of being 60 degrees before the week is out. All right. Thank you very much, chuck. Prince georges county, morriston Elementary School is closed, the heat isnt working. Jefferson county schools in West Virginia also closed for the day. As for the delays, fredericksburg and Stafford County schools will hours late. You can learn about the latest School Closings any time on our nbc washington app. Howard university is postponed classes for more than a week because of problems created by this long stretch of bitter cold weather. It caused steam pipes to burst, filling rooms with
Airport. This time it was a flooded terminal. Take a look at this. The new York Port Authority is launching an investigation after a pipe broke sunday, flooded one of the terminals. They had to shut off the power. This mess adds to the weatherrelated chaos. Theyre still dealing with the delays when they had to close the airport. We just checked with flight aware. The airport seeing delays of 30 minutes. If youre flying in and out of jfk, check your airlines today. Eun, back to you. Looks like a big mess. Chris, thank you. Howard university has postponed classes for more than a week because of problems created by this long stretch of cold weather. The cold caused steam pipes to burst, filling two classroom buildings and the annex with moisture. Ceiling tiles had out in order to prevent mold. It also caused problems for the boiler system. Though some buildings dont have consistent heat. The most comfortable setting that our students will have right now is in their homes. It gives us an e
Im eun yang. Were going to get to more about the golden globes. Well talk more about the crazy weather. Because of a system headed our way, it could cause problems tonight. Well get to that in a second, as well as water main breaks. The temperatures causing School Delays and closings. Marlton Elementary School will be closed because the heating isnt working. In virginia, spotsylvania, page and Shenandoah County schools closed. Jefferson county schools in West Virginia are also closed. As for the delays, fredericksburg city and Stafford County schools will open two hours late. Right now, lets turn to meteorologist chuck bell for a look at the forecast this morning. 20 degrees right now outside the studios. It feels nowhere near as cold as it was. Dulles and bwi set record low temperatures. Bwi marshall fell to plus one yesterday morning. National airport, the record was 5 and we only made it to 8 degrees. So with the cold air in place, the ground is frozen solid. Have a Winter Weather a
The good news is all that comes to an end at midnight. Well be dry by tomorrow morning. Temperatures may be below freegz. Well have slick spots to worry about then. Well be near 60 by later in the week. The Winter Weather advisory continues. Your hourly planner on temperatures, we may barely get above the freezing marks but the ground is frozen. Any raindrops, they will glaze them over almost instantaneously. Be real careful later on this afternoon and this evening for that. The trend is finally our friend yet again. Temperatures will be in the 50s by thursday. But that afternoon, evening commute tonight could be a little icy and dicey, melissa. I dont love that. Its going to be a rough one coming home tonight for a lot of folks. Taking a look at the breaking news. Chopper 4 headed to that water main break, eastwest highway takoma park for us. Eastbound lanes are shut down. One westbound lane. The only thing open for us this morning, a little bit of an improvement. We were totally clos
Weather on the way. Ill take you through it and break down the forecasts when im back in ten minutes. If youre moving out now, katy zachry with first alert traffic. If youre up heading to work or school, well look live at the schuylkill expressway at montgomery drive. I like this shot because its well lit. It can show you whats going on the road below. Were having light to moderate traffic on 76. No issues to report. The vine street expressway, no construction overnight. Of course there was an issue with freezing after a pipe burst near the vine street expressway. That was yesterday. No issues reported this morning. Theres no overnight construction probably because its too darn cold. Lets take a live look at your drive times. 95, the schuylkill expressway, the blue route, all looking good. All in the green, no crashes, none of that overnight construction thats going to hold you back. There is a construction project going on along the 42 freeway near 295 and new jersey. Well check with