cruises to the finals making easy work of the american, in a straight set win this morning. barty will take on the winner of the other women s semifinal match set to begin in just a few minutes actually from now. now, time for the weather. with meteorologist bill karins there. it s really, really cold in washington. what s happening? we re setting the stage for that snowstorm. it has been bitter cold the last two days, and we re going to take advantage of this cold air mass. this looks to be about a 100% snowstorm which is pretty rare for the east coast. often you get messy storms, slow to sleet to rain, to freezing rain, this one looks to be all snow. let s get into the details. it s cold pretty much everywhere east of the rockies. 4 in detroit. how about our friends in northern maine this morning, negative 26. that s not even the wind chill,
changing to freezing rain to sleet and then all snow. if you re shoveling here, you re going to be standing on rain that is on top of a rink, an ice rink, your driveway. this is going to be a very dangerous situation to be involving in. it s not going away any time soon, either. you can t wait until friday for the sun to come out. this is going to be a cold air mass. it s going to snow for hours. it s going to stop and start again for some of you like in indianapolis and cincinnati, even going to ohio. some of this will actual tly ge into the northeast. there will be a big amount of ice. it could be up to one inch. it s going to bring down trees and power lines to the north and west of there. that s where the snow will be. major to extreme impacts all the way from the great lakes all the way down to dallas, texas, even where you expect it to be warm, it s not warm enough.
above 200 metres. fog could be an issue across england and wales as well, a rather murky start to our christmas eve morning. a mild one, frost free, but if you are up and off early across england and wales its best to bear their mist and fog in mind. the main release in scotland, damp and dreary. brightness for the south but by the end of the afternoon into south west england, wales and northern ireland, stronger winds, england, wales and northern ireland, strongerwinds, heavy england, wales and northern ireland, stronger winds, heavy rain is likely to be a feature. still staying mild here and we might see a little bit of sunshine in the cooler air across parts of aberdeenshire. as we go through christmas eve into christmas day, as the weather front continues to push its way steadily north, that cold air mass is still in place. on the leading edge of that is where we could see the wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow to give us the dusting. that s thing first on christmas day. it eases a
let s turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth who is tracking this storm. rick: we will see more severe weather today. i think the set-up is a little bit better. we shouldn t see anything as severe as what we saw overnight last night. that is the worst of it. we have a number of hours here. we will start to see the sun come up and get a real sense of exactly the daniel that happened. that mayfield, kentucky, that s a pretty small town. the town of about 10,000 south of paducah. temperature-wise see cold air mass across the west and breaking all kinds of warm temperature records across the south and eastern part of the country. that, over all, is going to continue to be our set up. you will notice that cold air that continues to come in behind this storm and i point this out because tonight temperatures will drop below freezing for most of the people that had this tornado damage. we have cold night ahead. probably a lot of people without power for a while and people still, you
is. temps in the mid 40 s. you fall a further farther off towards the west. cold air mass 19 cries currently in chicago. 31-degree below freezing. 26 degrees in kansas city. all of that cold air is fun ling in the eastern half of the country. some of the snow higher elevations up and down the east coast. interior england. all because of this very cold air so thanksgiving wrapping up yesterday. starting to think about christmas. and it is starting to feel a little bit more like winter in the holiday season out here on fox square and across the country. rachel, back to you. rachel: all right. thank you, adam. the world health organization is holding an emergency meeting on a new covid variant. should would he be concerned? dr. marc siegel answers our questions. but, first, how do you like to win $5,000? well, here is your chance. tom shillue reveals the fox bet question you need to answer to win. stay with us.