Expects around the district, most of our counties in maryland expecting very high winds today and were talking about wind gusts near 60 Miles Per Hour. These are winds that we typically see in a thunderstorm. We do expect it to continue through the afternoon so its not just this morning. Its going to run through almost the rest of the day. Current wind gusts near 26 Miles Per Hour in the district. Leesburg near 40mileperhour wind gusts. Take a look at martinsburg now up to 45 but these winds will be increasing so make sure you plan accordingly. We also have some issues out there on the roads. Good morning. Several problems on the roadways here this morning. This one is actually one thats starting to get some real delays southbound. Southbound near 109. Crash on the left side of the roadway, the rest of what im talking about this morning, lots of downed trees, lots of downed wires. Wyoming avenue at connecticut, downed tree with some lanes blocked there. 66 and inner loop and outer loop
Police rescue and power crews are staying busy this morning. Falling trees have taken down those power lines leaving roads blocked and intersebss xheetdly dark. Thousands of people and businesses are also dealing with Power Outages at this hour all because of the powerful wind gusts. We begin our coverage this morning with storm team 4 meteorologist sheena parveen. Well, we still have the high wind warning in effect until this afternoon. This is going to go until 6 00 p. M. All the orange shaded counties including the district, many of our maryland counties currently seeing high winds. We still have the potential to see wind gusts near 60 miles an hour for the rest of the day today. Those will be damaging winds knocking down tree limbs and power lines so we still have the risk of that through the afternoon. Current wind gusts, 40mileanhour winds in the district, 44 camp springs, leesburg almost 40mileanhour wind gusts. Hagerstown close to 45. Again today is going to be one of those day
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Most in northern virginia. Rgini. Dominion reporting about ab 15,000 customers without without power. Pepco reporting about 1100ou0 people in the dark, bg ebg e customers also without powero with the company reportingep more than 2200 outages. Ut lets get to tucker withcker more on the winds. N the wi. The big question will they w inue tod today. Yes, theyll pick up againeyi a little bit as we getck the sue up here we start to mix up theth atmosphere again but hard had hitting last night. Reminiscent of the derechoed. Ere were fecw years ago. 26 the currents wind gust in washington, 29 in29 in gaithersburg. 44 in annapolis. Apoli were still really blowing outw there. Once we get the sun up gp in an hour the winds are goingrg to pick up again and gust atustt times to up to about 50 milesut per hour later today. Oda quick look at your high wind wd warning just a reminder a highah wind warning locally until until 6 oclock tonight. Oclock well have plenty ofto sunshinee today. It will be o
Yes. Do you get it. I like it. It is early but i got it. All right. Were trying to make light of this but if it is your trash day, after trash is collect you will have to run to find that trash can. It is four out of 10. Heres why. We have high wind advisory and high win warning in effect for today, the the advicery lighter brown and that includes philadelphia, delco and points north and south jersey, delaware are under high wind warning for higher wind gusts between 50 and 60 miles an hour. We could see 50 miles an hour gusts around here and because of that with those high wind coming a cross the freight lakes we could see a few snow squals here and there but nothing like the blizzard conditions that they are getting in boston. Long island, get something snow, so, at least like i said we could see snow squall or two but no accumulation expect look at these wind gusts at philly international, 46 miles an hour. The that is Tropical Storm force, and anything above 39 is, and we will have