Very cold and the tweet is interesting, but, how cold is it . As it wast as cold this time yesterday. Temperatures are well below freezing, starting off at 16 in gaithersburg. 17, manassas. 21 degrees downtown. That is what it feels like with light wind. Clouds across the region, few snow flurries. Flurry or snow shower not out of the question this morning. Clouds give way to sunshine. By 11 00, up to 27. That is higher than our High Temperature yesterday. Above freezing around 2 00. 30 degrees by 5 00. Overnight, we track a clipper system that will dive out of will bring us light snow. Tomorrow morning, we will talk about accumulation and impact. We have an accident in damascus at oak drive. Watch for police direction. All lanes will be closed. On the outer loop of the beltway, a tractortrailer is off to the shoulder. It looks like everything is moving fine. Thet see problems here at wilson bridge. I want to point out we have traffic moving across the wilson bridge. Interstateee what
Charlottesville. 28 downtown. We are watching for some of the coldest air of the season here over the next several days, but as we continue to go over the next 24, 48 hours or so, i think we will be ok as far as temperatures today in the mid 30s. Tomorrow when the mid30s, and then the weekend, and sunday and the new year, monday and tuesday, we stay in the 20s and mid20s at that. A couple of clouds. We will clear out through the afternoon. More clouds usher in, filter in ahead of the system. The timing looks like it will start overnight. If you are headed out tonight, you will be fine. Were not expect in wintry weather until late, 3 00, 4 00 in the morning. That will continue until the earlymorning hours on saturday. If you have saturday morning plans, there might be a few 10 00, 11 00 a. M. For the snow to end. By the time it does come to an end, we will only have about an inch or so on the ground. As we head out to lunch through the afternoon hours, temperatures gradually get into th
Southeast. It freezes in a freeze but right now its completely iced over. We found out that the city is well aware of the problem. Everyone from d. C. Water officials to mayor bowsers office themselves. They have been contacted about the problem and nothing has been done. The people here want one thing. It cant be a spring that runs water. If it was a spring the water wouldnt come so much. We are not doing anything with it. We have no means of anything like with it. Somebody has to be responsible. Q is live look at the flowing a live look at if flowing water. It doesnt stop. I contacted the city and they told me they sent an inspector out here and they are wor out where the water is coming from. No one complains about having extremely high water bill. We will let you know what they find out. That is the latest in southeast d. C. Im q mccray for news news. Michelle thank you. They are pretreating the roads for snow overnight. Chief meteorologist bill kelly is tracking the alert. Bill we
Nothing to do with the current coastal storm still developing in the southeast. That will start impacting us late tonight and early tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, the bigger story in the immediate time is the cold. Bethesda, woodbridge, all coming in between eight and 15 degrees across the area this morning. We could go about two weeks here seeing our temperatures in a deep freeze and below average. Lets talk about that system coming up the coast. Weve got a winter storm warning, in the purple in the , panning over. Areas around jacksonville, unusually cold. As we head up the coast you can see locations like ocean city and the winter storm warning weather could be as much as three to four inches of snow. Yes, travel will be impacted, mainly across eastern and Southern Maryland for tomorrow morning. Will be topping out in lower teens. About 33 for a High Temperature later today. When i come back i will tell you about the subfreezing temperatures that will follow behind the storm. Julie i
Vj toss to eileen se washington eileen toss to Julie Julie Julie toss to johnny in Calvert County right now the Winter Weather right now the Winter Weather travellers. Thousands of flights cancelled or delayed across the country. And dozens of School Districts closed in our area just in Fairfax County, now closed. Melanie hastings is at the live desk in the newsroom with more first up delays and cancellations on amtrak. Northeast Regional Service between dc and newport news and norfolk is completely cancelled today amtrak is also operating a modified schedule between new york and boston. As for flights the board at Reagan National is showing more and more red. Its a similar story up and down the east coast. About 35hundred flights are canceled today, according to flightaware dot com. If you do have a trip scheduled the airlines are being all the major carriers have travel alerts in place. That means you can change or cancel your ticket at no cost. Dozens of schools are closed or delaye