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
Many spots. As a result, the windchills are averaging between minus 5 and minus 10 to get your day going. Theres your planner then. Windchills below zero, at least through the morning hours. Recovering only slightly to zero zero for the afternoon. Afternoon below 20 degrees. When does it warm up . Ill show you the forecast coming up. Going to be a while, chris. Thank you very much, chuck. A lot of school buses going to have trouble today so a lot of the schools are closing because of the weather. You can find the closings and delays at the bottom of your screen and on the nbc washington app. In maryland, prince georges, calvert, st. Marys. Hampshire schools in west, virginia, closed. A big list of closings in virginia. Fauquier, spotsylvania, frederick all closed among others. Shenandoah page, rappahann k rappahannock, culpepper. Manassas city, Manassas Park, loudoun, winchester schools, closed as well. Maryland. Montgomery, anne arundel schools will open two hours late. Alexandria, fa
City, winchester schools are also closed. Now to the delays in maryland. Montgomery anne arundel, washington and Frederick County schools will open two hours late. Arlington, alexandria and Falls Church Schools will open two hours late in virginia as Will Jefferson county schools in west virgin virginia. The federal government is open today. Why ask for this. Chuck bell has the forecast. Good morning, aaron. Eun, good morning. Welcome to friday, a day spent mostly inside. About 9 degrees in not about. It is 9 in gaithersburg. 13 manassas. 14 here in washington. The feelslike factor, it is still windy. Windchills below zero across the region. A windchill advisory continues through noon. The advisory criteria, whi minus 15 degrees. The wind is here, not just for today and tonight. It will stay windy through the day tomorrow as well. No real relief from the bitter cold wind until sunday. Ill show you the forecast and highs and lows for the weekend coming up. For now almost killed myself o
Instead of the watergate. The wind is the issue. Windchills are running between 5 and 10 below zero this morning across most of the area and points north and west. As youre going outside today, waiting for a bus tstop, no matter what youre doing, bundle up. Windchills through zero over the course of the day. The sun will be out. Highs today will be in the teens. So be like this little kitty, this is what you should wear today. Layer upon layer upon layer. You got it, put it on. Your winter parka, insulated gloves, thick socks, i dont think i left anything out. Well doublecheck. Melissa, lets hear more about the skating rink problem. Breaking news near the Kennedy Center. Rock creek parkway near virginia avenue. Take a look at this. It is an ice rink because of a nearby water main break. You can see out there, trying to treat the roads. Megan mcgrath, well get a live report in a minute. Northbound rock creek parkway. Westbound have va vairginia ave. You cannot use istreet ramp to 66 or
Precursor of what comes later. We will start off with these showers. We will catch a midday break and then eventually this moves in. You can see the heavier rain right new rolling in western lake erie, this is all eventually going to help reignite a fresh round of potentially severe then are storms, the timing of which looks less than eye tiehl for all of the typical evening commuters, about 5 00 to 9 00 p. M. That is window for thunderstorms to rumble in, basically north west to south east as they so often do with the way the movement of the atmosphere tend to be. In the meantime right new we are at 77 at philly international. Seventyfour ac. Slightly cooler by comparison but still muggy in the poconos and around the resorts, you are talking upper 70s in the mountains but everybody is fair game here to see the stronger or severe thunderstorms, rumble in at some point. So while i do think we will catch a break to see some sunshine here by midday that is only going to help ignite any of