Were referring to winter hurricane east tomorrow. The cold we get the winds involved. And exactly. They will talk more about t that. That will not be today. Today waking up with same old same old. Were watching a storm developing and were concerned about getting light snow around here overnight tonight and early tomorrow. I want to show you temperatures quickly and well revisit these. Yeah, were back off to single dingit temperatures. 15 warm spot reagan national. Dulles and bwi in single digits. So if today is first day back to school if going back to work and make sure you dress accord ling i here. Were hoping to get the temperature up near freezing later this afternoon and well talk about the big symptomle potential for what you are he fer to as winter hurricane quoming up shortly. Cold temperatures today. Dulles and bwi very, very c cold. Back to you. Somebody in midst of right now Team Coverage continues. Bone chilling temperatures as students head back to school this morning. Cau
Ill have all the details on owe all right. Guys, back to you. As we talk about extreme cold its impacting schools in greater d. C. Region. Couple closures. Arch bish ol carol in d. C. Closed today because of plumbing problems caused by cold and barnaby manner Elementary School oxon hill close because of water main break. Delays in virginia clark county schools delay one hour. Page county schools and Frederick County virginia schools on a two hour delay. In West Virginia, berkley, grant, hardy and Jefferson Country schools youre on hour delay and western maryland, alleghany and Garrett County schools both delayed two hours. For the kids going to school on time there were several chmerkovskiys several chmerkovskiys inclouding good morning, allison, steve, when its cold liking this and theres certain schools in montgomery country without heat and here in Montgomery County buses are affected by the cold. What happened, over the last two weeks kids were on lengthy winter break and none of t
Were here at the d. C. Department of public works storm team 4 command center. The employees will be looking at these monitors. There are nine of them. If you notice, theyll sometimes go to black and what they are doing, this is realtime live video from major intersections throughout the district. For example, we have florida avenue, bening road, pennsylvania avenue, first street and potomac avenue southeast. Around 8 00, that is when the snow table will send out the trucks to pretreat the roads with salt brine and then 200 trucks will be deployed. If youre out and about, stay away. Give these guys and women working out there time and room so that they can get t make the roads safer for all of us. Youre now going to hear from the d. C. Department of public works director. Lets hear what he has to say. We have had very dangerously low temperatures. Any amount of precipitation can create ice and black ice, whether its half an inch tomorrow or, like i said, it can affect traffic. Reporter
To delmarva, all the way up to long island, not including the bureau of manhattan and up into the boston area, lets get in a little bit closer, what does a blizzard warning mean compared to the Winter Weather advisory that dc is in that parts of Lehigh County are in, montgomery county. Sustained winds will be over 35 Miles Per Hour loading be visibility be that will be rough at the coast. We expect gusts to 50 miles an hour and if you head on up to boston, that could be gusting to 60 or 70 miles an hour, so thats why some people are referring to this as nearly a winter hurricane. Where is the storm right now . We showed you some of the pictures, snow is trying to leave the charleston area and the snow is creeping into north korea. We dont care to see any snow because the air is very dry, after 1 00 in the morning, we could definitely see it. Can we run through the whats going to happen . Here we go, the snow tonight, if, as we see light snow coming on in, it will likely develop after 1
Fraer also on a two thundershower slay. St. Mary county schools are closed. Culpeper, fairfax and Fauquier County will be closed tomorrow. You can final the complete list of closures at the bottom of your screen sdmrlt latest on the storm known as bomb cyclone. Not that were meaning to scare anybody with that. It promotes fear in some people. Awhat it means we have a powerful nor easter that strengthen the rapidly and bombing storage is where we see mill i wars 20 in 24 this does more than that as a result of that the coast will take a penalty from wind and snow as we go forward and thats why there are bliz artd wangz for the coast and Winter Weather advisory in the purple for d. C. Area and winter storm warnings pour heavier snow between advisory and blizzard built, wow, its all right getting going and looks like everything is on electronic. And that light snow is beginning to great out now. We all know some of you have seen it and many of you have not. I looked outside the station in