If you live in the northeast or midwest, you know the drill. Four to five months of heavy clothes, seeing your breath and generally freezing outside. Pete zervakis is live in greenfield with how to best get ready for the deep freeze both Milwaukee County and city are asking for help officials are trying to secure more Warming Centers for people who need a place to stay during this cold stretch. Theyd like to get a few more centers open before the week is over. With temperatures like this, you cant have too much. If there are people who have facilities in a nonprofit that understands and are willing to help us out please get in contact with because we can help you help people stay warm in the winter. If you would like to help or would like information about a warming center, you can call 211. The Milwaukee Health department has advice for staying safe in below zero weather. And while some of them may seem obvious. They could keep you from getting frostbite or worse. Minimize the time yo
Effect for all of se wisconsin from 9pm tonight until 10am thursday. Now lets take a look at your roads. Incident freelight traffic speeds at or above posted drive times on timekeeping an eye on Sheboygan County drivers and continuing the cold today is painful. And can quickly turn dangerous. This morning. Pete zervakis is live with the Greenfield Fire Department with some reminders to keep you safe in the cold. If you want to stay active on a dangerously cold day like today, there are some options. The Pettit National ice center has a huge indoor track and ice skating rink that opens . Early so you can get your sweat on. Without getting sick or hurt we had a mild fall and so people had other Outdoor Activities to do but once the of snow they come in in droves theres no way im walking out there. Im over 65 and if i fall its game over for me the pettit just opened at 5 30 am until 9 at night. Its four dollars to use the additional tips for driving in the cold. Make sure your tires have
This morning. Now, Officials Say it went down about midnight. It was fully restored around 1 30 this morning. Official have still not said why that system went down. Well stay on top of that story for you as it develops this morning. Thank you for joining us on this sunday. Im adam tuss. Good morning, everybody, im Meagan Fitzgerald in for angie goff. Tom kierein has the latest on our continuing heat wave. Good morning. Im happy to report not as humid as it has been the last few days. We do have a little patchy fog in some of the rural areas starting off early on this sunday morning. Were a half ahour away from the sun rise. Weve got a few clouds drifting over the metro area. Sun will be breaking out and as the day progresses, well get increasing sunshine. Temperatures are comfortable. Were down in the low to mid 60s, shenandoah valley, blue ridge and into the mountains. Prince georges, montgomery, fairfax county, in the 60s. Mid 70s right in town. Right around the Chesapeake Bay, mid
Good morning, carolina, welcome on tuesday february 16. 59 degrees. John thanks for tuning in. Get ready for another possible rough khraout. Not ice but rain. Don and amber have weather and traffic. Barbara first we have closings and delays. Durham, franklin, granville, halifax, northampton, orange, person, Roanoke Rapids, vance county and Warren County schools on a twohour delay. John wake county schools are norm but schools in mecklinburg are closed. You can check the closings and delays on abc11. Com. Barbara it is time for weather and traffic with meteorologist Don Schwenneker. Think this is causing the Power Outages . Don i do. We are seeing wind gusts up to 40. Over 8,000 without power and that is climbing. A live look at first alert doppler xp and on the most powerful radar in the carolinas weve got this heavy line of showers. Thunderstorms with this. We have had one or two rumbles of thunder. The big story is wind. We are seeing gusts over 40 miles an hour. We have seen them re
Halifax, nash rocky mount. Northampton northampton. Wayne and others closed. John franklin on a two lower delay. We have not heard from the schools in the triangle. You can check closings and delays at abc11. Com. Barbara lets check in with meteorologist Don Schwenneker in the first alert storm center. Good morning. Don good morning. You should say those triangle schools are still on time. Ha, ha, ha. Kids are getting up to check. That is me. Im sorry. We will show you what is going on. We have a Winter Weather advisory that goes into effect later this morning for the eastern half of the viewing area. We are not seeing anything right now. A little radar return west much south hill. Most of it not making it to the ground. Temperatures in the 20s. 27 right now in roxboro. 26 chapel hill, 25 sanford and looking at the day ahead and temperatures across the region staying in the 20s. 26 and cloudy. Lunchtime snow showers and 34. This afternoon 35 degrees with snowflakes ending. We will talk