Northern tier of the state. But thats all weve got those are not going to be drifting their direction of their way our direction we stay dry today tomorrow for thanksgiving and stay mild all the way through the holiday too. 40s and 50s are current temperatures except for santa rosa youve been the exception in the 30s this morning. It has certainly been a cool one for you low 50s for berkeley and oakland, some of our more mild of spots right there along the bay. Later today, its back to the 60s we go although not as warm as yesterday was just in the low 60s today, the rest of your forecast is still ahead robin all right, thank you john lets check in on the traffic, its a little busy. At the Richmond Sandra fell bridge. We dont have anything going on in the span right now, but a lot of these folks were stuck. Behind an earlier overturned in richmond that was 5 in the west and bayview so thats gone that made them a little late some of them getting up to the toll plaza, so if you want to j
He was rescued from a freezing ditch. Almost. S crying now, abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Jonathan first, we are on storm watch. It is freezing outside. Oncy bitter cold and snow the way, all adding up to make a new years one of the coldest in decades. Jonathan we have team covers, including a look at people braving the bone chilling cold, but we start with chief meteorologist bill kelly. How low will it go . Into tonight we will be the mid20s, one of the warmer nights. What we are focusing on this evening is the snow, tracking to the west. That is the blue on the map, the darker shades where it is heavier. Most of that to the west and further northwest. A widespread Winter Weather the area, not the d. C. Metro right now. Frederick county, washington andty, Allegheny County Garrett County to the west, that is where the Winter Weather advisory is currently come in effect tonight right now until noon tomorrow. They will probably take that down earlier. Gaithersburg germantown, hager
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It is mighty cold once again. The normal high for this time of the year is 352. The windchills are in the teens. Look at the numbers yesterday windchills got no better than the upper teens were doing better now because were starting in the teens. Well finish in the 20s. Considering the normal is 52 this is awful for this time of the year. 6 below in the poconos. 16 in philadelphia. 19 in millville. 14 in reading. And you can see all that cold air just kind of spilling in from canada. The high is sitting right here. It is only 7 in binghamton. 28 in washington d. C. , were showing 25. Pittsburgh 20. All the cold air is in place across the mid atlantic and the northeast. Here comes this right here. This is the piece of energy that develops the cost coastal low that moves into the cold air and turns into the snowstorm monday into tuesday. Sun and clouds, cold, 35 degrees. Windchills in the 20s. When i come back in just a few minutes well talk about the approaching snowstorm and well have