News continues now. 2018 is bringing a blast of arctic air with it Live Team Coverage as we continue to deal with frigid temperatures across the dmv. Lets get to gary mcgrady. Whats going on i choose to be optimistic. Maybe this means we have a warm february coming our way. Hopefully something to think about. Look, weve definitely got the arctic connection all the way up off the poles. We talked a couple of years ago, the polar vortex was a term that became in vogue. This is from the polar vortex, slipped to the south and bringing the super cold stuff, some of the coldest air weve seen in decades in some places for us here. And it does look like the door will remain open this week for even more arctic air to come down, the next wave will come down thursday, friday and linger through saturday. Thats going to be behind this coastal system. It does look like the remainder of this week will be cold, and im telling you right now, well warm up a little bit wednesday, thursday, wonting too te
Up . Its only one day. They should be okay right now. Tips to have a successful start. Ask me in april. Right . April . Thats why you dont make any. You dont fail. I worked at a gym in college and people would come like clockwork. They pile up january 1st, gone by the middle of february. In a month and a half, thats it. If youre just waking up with us, in Hampshire County, West Virginia, a twohour delay for schools in that area. We think its because of the cold. Well update you if we learn more. We want to take a look at the forecast too. We are really in for Something Else here, sheena. Its once again a painful morning. This is why we have a weather alert out. We have potentially dangerous windchills. If you are exposed for 30 minutes, you potentially you have to dress in layers. The kids at the bus stop have to dress in layers. Look at dulles. These are the updated windchills. 7 below zero is what it feels like in dulles right now. 5 below winchester. 3 below in gaithersburg. Feels l
The center. Youre probably shaking your head saying they just dont know. We do know. Places like the lehigh value lea may get a dusting and some areas could dpet a foot. Heres a quick look. You can see offshore thats where were going to see the center of this. If it tracks further west, were going to get heavier snow across the entire area. If it tracks further to the east, well get lighter snow amounts. Well break all that down and well have the snow amounts that we think are going to fall in just a few minutes. In the meantime, this bitter blast just wont let up, but its not keeping everyone inside. We spotted a few people Walking Around the frozen lake earlier today. From south jersey, we go to the lehigh valley. A live look from our camera at the ppl center. The feels liken temperature is in the teens. Meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking the cold in r your most accurate weather forecast. Its going to get worse friday and saturday. This is bad enough. The average high
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
Large in size and very explosive in intensity, so its only going to get stronger as it approaches. The entire area is under the first alert. We do have that blizzard warning for the jersey shore. A rare blizzard warning and also south delaware. Thats where youre going to see the highest winds. Youre also going to see the highest snowfall totals. At this point it looks like thats where the biggest impact will be on all of this. 9 00 tonight through 7 00 tomorrow evening. That is how long well be looking at this first alert and that is how long well be looking at these blizzard conditions around the rest of the area, we are looking at winter storm warnings. So its just still as severe. The winds wont be quite as high in philadelphia. What were looking at is heavy snow. Potentially you could see up to a foot in some places along the jersey shore. In philadelphia, some places could exceed half a foot. Were looking at high winds. Were looking at what could be a very dangerous morning commut