Of Southern Maryland. It includes the beltway and all the counties that surround it. Plus, portions of northern virginia. That goes until noon and includes the city of manassas, culpeper. You can see the snow is tracking toward us from the south. Some of the heavier bands of snow are pushing once again into st. Marys and can vert counties. Its calvert counties. Its snowing steadily through both of those counties. Leonardtown has seen a coating so far. We could see as much as 2 inches in leonardtown, for instance. In southern fauquier, all of Culpeper County and stafford and spotsylvania counties are seeing light snow right now. Prince William County is picking up light to moderate snow at the moment. Temperatures throughout the entire metro area are cold enough to support that snow. Its only 21 degrees in gaithersburg. Most of us are in the low to mid20s but its 27 in downtown washington. Coming up with the first alert sevenday forecast, well take a look at some of the model data showi
Of sleep last night. Howard, topper, take it away. A couple of flurries leftover. The road crews getting a handle on the interstate, and theyre starting to catch up after what was a very bad night. A lot of things are going on. Topper, take it away. And well talk about totals and show you the radar. The storm is history. Were in good shape now. The totals so far, i want to thank everyone to send us the totals and the pictures. Day breaks and were going to have daylight coming. Take better pictures. Oldtown, about 4 and a half inches. Reidville, 4 and a half, germantown, 4; mechanicsville, 8 inches. We talked about the places south and east are the bulls eye. We were in the middle of our four to 8 ban. The storm did perform pretty well and the bans, the low sides of the bans. The 48 ban, you had four to eight inches. We cant complain. A the little bit of snow a little bit of snow across the del marva and snow skirting southern new england and a couple of snow flurries are possible north
Snow but its hard to see out there. You can see where the heavier snow is with the visibilities less than a mile. Tracking the blue band. Thats where the snow is really coming through the beltway makingity way up through baltimore along 95 and farther south. These areas in the blue could see more than two inches. Its coming down more than an inch an hour. So count on snow continuing to 8 00 to 9 00 in the morning. Well continue to track it coming up. Larry, good morning. Allyson, good morning. Good morning to you at home. Looks like things are starting to heat up. Some fire activity going on on piney branch road and carroll avenue and university boulevard of not causing any delays yet. For those of you making your way from frederick to the beltway, youll have no issues right now. Volume is starting to build up. You can see this is the southbound lane here. I want to let you know we are tracking several incidents in virginia right now mainly just south of woodbridge on dumfries road. We
But were not michigan or chicago. We dont have the chemicals that work when its in the teens. Its also really light snow. If you get outside and clear your driveway and sidewalk today, well get some sun. Well get a little remelting and a hard freeze. Do yourself a favor, do it today. Mr. Bernstein issue add yellow alert tomorrow. I agree wholeheartedly. We could have thunder snow tomorrow. People were asking why no reld alert for this snow red alert for this snow. We just felt first it wasnt a huge storm. It was well forecast. Coming off a threeday weekend. No one was caught on the roads. Snowed overnight. It was yellow. We like to save the red for the good stuff, maybe snowmageddon, carmageddon. While the governments are closed, i think by afternoon maybe your neighborhood wont but a lot of the roads will be in much better shape. Lets talk about snowfall totals. As we said south and east was the bulls eye. And that certainly bears it out. Spotsylvania 10. 5. Columbia, maryland about 6
West for now. Not going to be dry for the rest of the day, though. Keep that umbrella on standby. Its not going to be a rainy afternoon but we will have some moments of thunderstorms. Here we go. Along 95 a couple of areas of light rain. Its really pushing off to the east pretty fast. Most of the morning will be dry except for areas south of the district i think well have some lingering showers all the way from the east part. The district to queen anne and bowie and clinton and all the way through charles county. We have some wet. Notice the yellow colors. Colonial beach were looking at moderately heavy rainfall and pockets of light rain. Jan in reedville says its not raining yet but it will be in a little bit. 58 for baltimore. 53 for annapolis. Were headed for the 70s today. Its going to be very warm but that sets us up for some thunderstorms this afternoon. Very isolated. Ill track them on your futurecast coming up in just a bit. First a check on traffic with larry miller. Good morn