Bomb cyclone. Well talk more about that coming up. Lets get right to the radar. Snow continues across the area. Not terribly heavy up and down the i95 corridor but it is coming down, it is sticking and it will be with us for a few more hours. I will give you all the details on how much snow weve seen and how much more we can expect and what we can look forward to later today. Ill give you a hint. Lots of wind and lots of cold coming up in just a couple minutes but you can see that live radar, our storm our snow continues across the area. It will be with us for a few more hours. Erin im going to toss to you. I take it most everybody is kind of waiting it out or allison and steve . We are trying. The situation with the schools have been changing throughout the morning a lot of schools going from delayed earlier this morning or overnight to closed now. They are all scrolling at the bottom of your screen throughout the morning show. Lets get you caught up on the major systems closed or del
Delayed two hours. Frederick county, virginia, will be closed, too. We are running the other closures and delays at the bottom of your screen. Lets get over now to the storm center. Doug and amelia, when is this ending . Well, guys, you mentioned the schools. A lot more are going to continue to close. I just got word of a couple others im sure well be putting screen. Were tracking the storm. The snow is gone and into the cold and that will be here a couple days. I think it is a good idea for the schools to close based on how cold its going to feel. You look at this storm, how expansive it is, look at the snow shield. From Virginia Beach all the way into canada. For us the snow has now ended. It is moving out, but it is the cold that the now racing in behind it. You can see lake effect snow. Lake effect streamers coming all the way down towards portions of our northwestern zones tonight. The wind advisory still in effect until 7 00. We are looking at the wind Northern Virginia, almost a
To 55 miles an hour as you see here. Calvert cliffs, that was a bowie recording a gust of 56 down there just off annapolis. So, now the wind is combining with the very cold temperatures and ill show you temperatures in a moment to bring us this. This is the next advisory you need to be aware of it kicks in at 10 oclock tonight and it will continue until noon on friday. It will likely be extended its a wind chill advisory because overnight its going to feel like 5 degrees to 10 degrees below zero and in the mountains where you see that purple, thats a wind chill warning even colder, 5 degrees to 25 degrees below zero. Last stop here, current temperature is 24 degrees but its already down 18 degrees as we look out toward the winchester area and wind chill temperatures already below zero in few spots. Feels like 9 degrees here in d. C. It is going to be a long pull with this cold weather. Well talk about what you should get ready for friday and the weekend coming up a little bit later sar
Break is because there is so much water and ice now all over the road. Just a skating rink here now. D. C. Water says its an 8inch main and they did get the water turned off it appears. We dont know when theyre going to be able to come and start actually working to repair this main. They also say that there may be some customers in the area affected without water, too, so definitely causing a number of problems here. Not only for residents but also for commuters. And its its just the kind of thing that they know they have to deal with. They have wssc and d. C. Water have extra crews on hand. D. C. Water says theyve been dealing with some 200 water emergencies a day since this cold snap began and we know that theres going to be more of these to come. They really are just kind of bringing in those extra crews, having everyone else on standby and were going to be here this morning. Hopefully this is not the the beginning of many, many that were going to be covering today but to stay here
It is friday, january 5th. Lets tell you about the School Closings first. Then well get to erin and also to mike about our weather and traffic which are of course the big stories today. Area School Systems are not taking any chances with the extreme and dangerous cold. Most are delayed or closed. Lets go over to big ones and well start in maryland where the latest delay is for Frederick County schools. They are delayed two hours now. Anne arrundel and Montgomery County schools are also on a twohour delay. Saint marys county schools are closed. Charles county schools closed. Prince georges county schools closed. Calvert county schools closed. Lets go to virginia. Arlington county schools twohour delay. Alexandria city and Falls Church City schools twohour delay. Fairfax county schools closed. Loudoun county schools closed. Prince William County and Spotsylvania County schools are also closed. Stafford county schools are closed. Manassas city and Manassas Park schools are closed. Also in