And a few other things throughout that continue to fall. How much snow have we seen . Gaugersberg, 1. 2 inches. Winchester, around 4 inch mark. This is right where we were talking about during the day yesterday. Our forecast looking good for this. Back towards the west though, r romney, west virginia, 14 inches. Higher elevations getting more than the six inches. They saw that back to places in the west. The big issue is the temperatures tonight. And notice were very close to freezing. Dulles right now at 33. Reston, 33. 34 in rockville. Many of the secondary roads will become rather slick overnight tonight. Any snow left on the roads farther to the north and west will become rather slick. Watch out there tonight and watch out early tomorrow morning. Ill have more if a minute. All right. And our Team Coverage continues now. News 4s david cukul cull culve tracking the weather in hay market. Vdot crews are out this hour and continuing to treat the roads. Now you remember last winter, i d
Hours. Were expecting the roads to be on the slick side. Ill be back in a couple minutes to talk about that tranforecast. Thank you. Heres a look at some of the conditions that drivers had to contend with in an effort to make it to the thanks giving destination. David has been tracking the trip across Northern Virginia all day. He is live in hay market, virginia, with the accidents along the way. Test the roads we did to a lot of driving. We started out in arlington where this this cold rain coming down. We headed into western Fairfax County that crossover snow began and we made our way out to winchester where it was a much heavier snow. It was a tough commute on this thanksgiving eve. Route 7, the first of a few cars we found spun out. Farther down, another driver split off the road. That is where Steve Shannons crews come in. Theyve been treating the roads most of today. Heerd in loudon, i have between 120 and 130 pieces of equipment. Were getting hit harder out here than the rest of
So everything will freeze tonight. We are talking about the problems with ice. I do think the roads will be a problem once again tonight and then again tomorrow morning. But guys these temperatures they dont even tell the whole story. The wind chill is the big deal. Well talk about that coming up in a minute. Todays winter blast created some tricky situations for School Bus Drivers across our region. Our storm team 4 by 4 00 found buses struggling on the slick roads. In Prince William county. And a frightening ride for those students. A frustrating one for hundreds of thousands of others in fairfax, arlington and other Virginia School districts. The twitter hash tag, closefcps or close Fairfax County public schools, is still trending in our area right now. It was actually trending worldwide this morning. We gathered some of the post on the nbc washington Facebook Page and they were shared hundreds of times. News4s Mark Segraves is live in falls church with more on the frustration and s
Pretty much all of Frederick County is getting in on that snow at the moment. Not a lot, but we do have light snow showers falling. The major issue from this is going to be with temperatures rapidly dropping. We could see refreezing and because those snow showers could reduce visibility, we have a Winter Weather advisory in effect until midnight for the entire metro area. As the snow moves out, the cold front moves out and the winds move in and we have a high wind warning. Usually you see us post wind advisories. This is a wind warning. The winds could gust as high as 60 Miles Per Hour from right now all the way through 2 00 a. M. On our wind gust tracker, you see how strong the winds get. Any shading in a yellow is an indication of winds of 40 Miles Per Hour or stronger. Thats kind of the threshold for damaging winds. Well have that in place early in the morning, through the afternoon hours, continuing to gust over 40 Miles Per Hour and then even here we are in the evening on sunday,
Any better. We have the local news, too. We will start off with weather and another georgous day . Its going to be warmer than yesterday. Thats the only change. Everything else about the weather remains pretty consistent. 69 degrees at 10 00 a. M. 79 degrees at one. So already at 7 00 its going to be warmer than our High Temperature yesterday, which was 75. We will be at 83 degrees by 4 00. Thats dropping from our High Temperature of 84, which we will reach at 3 00. Still 80 degrees by seven. Its going to be a warm cookout or barbecue, if that is in your plans for this afternoon. 50 degrees in leesburg. Still 60 inwashington. 54 at gaithersburg and andrews. The satellite and radar nothing going on. Thats the way its going to stay all day long. I will update you on the potential for thunderstorms coming up in the sevenday forecast. Lowtomid 80s. Cooler at the beach. Here is a live look at the beach. How do you like that . This is ocean city, maryland. One of the busiest weekends of the