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8:00 this morning. look at the winds. they re picking up. this will be an issue later on today. somara theodore is on the weather deck. good morning. thrusting the snowflakes into my face. heading out my door, the side roads, the subdivision roads are coated at least for a lot of us with snow on the ground. the good news is once you get to the treated roads, we start to see a little bit of more wet conditions. but it is you re not dealing with the snow on the ground. still blustery out there. you want to take your time. melissa, how is it looking? if the roads are treated, they re okay. if untreated, not the situation where you see that slush and hey little bit of ice and snow on the roadways. here s a live look in bowie. looking at church road, you can see a little bit of snow on the grassy because this is a treated road, it looks interpret clear, mostly wet. our radar, all of that white and gray, you can see where the snow is falling across the area this morning ....
love to be out here playing in this nice fresh snow. look at it coming down here. it s 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. i ll 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. that s why we re 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 win ....
everything related to the school system canceled for today and loudoun county schools are also closed. we ve got lots of delays and closings to tell you about. we ll show you what s on the screen here now. it s scrolling on the bottom of your screen as well. we ll start with other delays. d.c. public schools open two hours late today. in virginia, warren, fauquier, page, culpepper, frederick and clark county schools opening two hours late. alexandria and falls church, city schools are on a two-hour delay as well today. in maryland, prince george s, calvert, charles, anne arundel and allegheny and frederick county schools on a two-hour delay. now to the closures in spotsylvania, westmoreland, rappahannock and stafford county schools all closed. fairfax county changed to closed. all offices are closed in fairfax as well. st. mary s county schools in maryland are also closed today. montgy county schools are now closed. the federal government is also on a two-hour delay w ....
two hours late. falls church city schools are on a two-hour delay. in maryland, calvert, charles, allegheny and frederick county schools are on a two-hour delay. now to the closures in virginia. spotsylvan spotsylvania, prince william, westmoreland, stafford, fairfax, loudoun, arlington county schools all closed. manassas city and alexandria schools closed as well. anne arundel, montgomery, prince george s county schools in maryland are also closed today. the federal government is on a two-hour delay this morning with the option for a scheduled leave for telework. well, good morning. we are watching the snow very closely. here s a live look at the radar. we re seeing the snow bands across the area, except winchester, warrenton. maybe flurries in inland, in the district, much of northern virginia, maryland, the storm system centered offshore. all snow this morning. as you head out, keep in mind, a lot of the roads are snow-covered except the main roads that have been ....
parts of maryland and virginia are slammed by the snow. but some parts have as much as 14 inches of snow, the highest total in our area are a little more than two inches. the majority of the area saw less than an inch. why were the schools closed today? stephen tschida is live in northwest asking parents if they thought closing school was a good idea. stephen? stephen: strong reaction to the question. seton elementary school is closed up tighter than a drum like a lot of schools in the region. but check out what is on the ground. it s not knee deep. so that is why a lot of parents are not thrilled with the rationale to close schools. the weather outside isn t frightful. still inside the trampoline park it s unusually business for a thursday. virginia now, this is we get an inch and they cancel school. the kids springing in action instead of studying. some parents scrammable to find ways to occupy the children. others took them along with them. improvising on unexp ....