Fresh air. Did not do that this morning. Did not do it. When i pulled out of the garage this morning, it was 16 degrees in northwest washington. That is roof closed kind of weather even for me who prefers cold to warm. Outside right now, four things you need to know about the weather. Number one, shiver me fingers. Thats cold outside. Yes, indeed. Windchills down close to 0 this morning. Cold air in place. Moisture coming. A bit of a snow chance coming up on saturday. Well be watching that. It doesnt look like more than a inch at the moment, but well keep it closely watched. Remember this term from last winter. The polar vortex. Yes, indeed. The polar vortex returns which could make next weekend colder than this one. Right now, we got to get through this one. Thursday morning starting off, windchill minus 1 in gaithersburg and minus 3 in martinsburg. It will be a breezy d morning. Temperatures teens now, low to mid20s by noontime. Highs today only in the mid20s. More about that weekend
8 00 this morning. Look at the winds. Theyre picking up. This will be an issue later on today. Somara theodore is on the weather deck. Good morning. Thrusting the snowflakes into my face. Heading out my door, the side roads, the subdivision roads are coated at least for a lot of us with snow on the ground. The good news is once you get to the treated roads, we start to see a little bit of more wet conditions. But it is youre not dealing with the snow on the ground. Still blustery out there. You want to take your time. Melissa, how is it looking . If the roads are treated, theyre okay. If untreated, not the situation where you see that slush and hey little bit of ice and snow on the roadways. Heres a live look in bowie. Looking at church road, you can see a little bit of snow on the grassy because this is a treated road, it looks interpret clear, mostly wet. Our radar, all of that white and gray, you can see where the snow is falling across the area this morning. Now, as far as the road
Love to be out here playing in this nice fresh snow. Look at it coming down here. Its getting powdery now. It was a little more coarse and frozen earlier. I want to show you how much snow has fallen. This bench presumably has not been touched. Ill wave my hand or push it off. There is an icier texture to the snow out here. As you mentioned, blizzard watches into effect out here, blowing this snow and the snowflakes every which way. Thats why were seeing tracks of our own and vehicles that have moved down here become recovered by the fresher powder that is continuing to fall on top of it. Here at ocean city, between 5 inches of snow to perhaps more than that. As of right now, watching plows making their way around baltimore and this boardwalk. They were brining yeste ready for this. Of course, state and local administrators asking anyone who does not have to venture out into this, just to avoid it. I can tell you, although it feels a bit warmer out here with that wind blowing, it does g
Everything related to the School System canceled for today and Loudoun County schools are also closed. Weve got lots of delays and closings to tell you about. Well show you whats on the screen here now. Its scrolling on the bottom of your screen as well. Well start with other delays. D. C. Public schools open two hours late today. In virginia, warren, fauquier, page, culpepper, frederick and clark county schools opening two hours late. Alexandria and falls church, city schools are on a twohour delay as well today. In maryland, prince georges, calvert, charles, anne arundel and allegheny and Frederick County schools on a twohour delay. Now to the closures in spotsylvania, westmoreland, rappahannock and Stafford County schools all closed. Fairfax county changed to closed. All offices are closed in fairfax as well. St. Marys county schools in maryland are also closed today. Montgy county schools are now closed. The federal government is also on a twohour delay with the option for unschedu
Airport as well. So no one will go basically an affect. If you can stay at home in pajamas and slippers. That sounds delightful. Yeah. My goodness, it is so cold outside. Dealing with snow that is one thing. Looking at snowfall totals so far we are up to 5 inches at stockily delaware and far cry from the end of this storm system just yet. We have had to up our expectations we will have more on that throughout the course of the morning but easily picking up multiple inches, milton, eldora, new jersey has just shy of 3 inches so far. When lou at rehoboth you are starting to get offfully close to white out conditions here pretty tough to make out the foreground sand and down there outside boardwalk plaza. That is plenty of snow starting to pile up in this area alone and every where else you see those darker shade of purple banding. Parts of atlantic county, Cape May County stuck as is southern and southeastern most burlington, ocean county that will potentially overtake the road quicker t