Streets. They are asking you to give the salt truck a wide space. Your shovel will work and your leave blower and your broom. Thats what we are seeing a lot of people on the sidewalks today. Be careful out there. Thats the latest and back to you guys to the warm and cozy studio. Theyre using beet juice to treat the road, can you explain that . I will. The district have switched over to this combination of beet juice and brine. It will look reddish spray on the ground. You can see it sometimes. Just a few years ago, they were one of the first in the country, everybody is always interested to hear that keeps our road from freezing over at night. It sounds like what people will be drinking for the new years fun, beet juice but not with the brine. Thanks for breaking it down. New information, it is certainly that time of the year where we take time to look back and reflect over the past years. It may seems like the past twelve months is about politics and catastrophes. It is not the case.
Pressure building in continues to build in, arctic high pressure, so it doesnt necessarily bring more cold temperatures in here, but it reenforces this cold really dry air mass, with the clear sky, temperatures will continue to drop, were 17 now, look up here into the suburb, 12 for westminster, 13 dulles, 12 winchester, we dont have snow on the ground, its hard to get super cold in the Single Digits and this morning we had a lot of lot of low readings, two, three, four degrees, it will probably be right back again tonight, especially if these winds continue to drop off pretty much areawide. Windchill now, though, the winds up just a bit. Doesnt take much to make it super cold. A lot of below zero readings, gaithersburg six below, frederick three below, feels like zero for westminster, this is not constant. Kind of goes up and down, with the wind increasing or weakening, thats just kind of up and down all think it will be around zero to five for about everybody, especially in the subur
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Sorry but it may be too little too late. Well tell you why. Dawned the dawgs home. Later a wild end the rose bowl. Georgia needing Double Overtime to punch their ticket to the National Championship game. The bug dogs are the underdogs going into next weeks champion schill because they have to face alabama. Well have all the highlights as good day at 9a starts now. 12 degrees outside at 9 00 oclock on this new years day after new years day. Right. Everybody shaking off cobwebs of new year. Hold on. Let me drink my tea. Utoh. 12 degrees outside. 42 inside today. Well huddle for warmth. Glad youre with us. A minute past the hour. Hope awed great new years. Welcome back everybody. Hopefully getting back not swing of things. Schools in d. C. Open tomorrow. It is january 2nd. Glad to be with ahead this morning new year in the Nations Capital what does the mayor have in store for 2018. We sat down with her 30 minutes ago. What she told us is coming you. Lets continue to talk about it. The wea
Second, 2018. Also just in inter bureau high school in Prospect Park in Delaware County closed to day. Because a pipe burst. We had pipes bursting all over we have like 25 bursting. We will get to some of that. It is that time of the year by the way, i know it is high school but they have a prek there and that is affected closed too today. It has been almost a week since our temperature has been above freezing, tuesday last week high of 33. That is enough. After that it has been below freezing ever since. We are coming up on a week of below freezing temperatures and a lot many more days to go shall we say with bus stop buddy, when you cant recognize him that is when you dress properly, wind chills below zero so many out there today, it looks good as we see beginnings of the 7 23 sunrise we have 14 degrees but this hour 12mile an hour winds make it feel like zero, that is our wind chill in philadelphia, goose egg zero, same in wilmington, reading wrightstown and feels like below zero in