Were going to get to mike and erin in just a moment. First we have a Couple School closings and delays. Well start in maryland. Marlton Elementary School in Upper Marlboro is closed today due to heating problems. All other Prince Georges County schools though are open on time. Elsewhere in maryland, Dorchester County schools are closed. Queen annes County Schools on a 90 minute delay and Talbot County schools you are on a twohour delay. Lets take you to virginia. Shenandoah County Schools closed today. King george, page and Spotsylvania County schools are also closed today while Stafford County and frederick city schools are on a twohour delay. And in West Virginia, Jefferson County schools you are closed today. All right. Erin como is talking about traffic. A lot of red behind you. Im afraid to ask what thats all about. Mike thomas talking about weather. No delay. You guys hit it. All right guys well its the cold ground temperatures were worried about today. Actually most most of the
South but now it looks to be nudging closer to the coastline. That would mean that parts of the area, snow chances are in the forecast. Temperatures below freezing, but it does look dry as we go into sunday. And even saturday is not going to be an allday thing. Into saturday on future weather, 9 00, 10 00 in the morning, there is the snow across the area leaving through the afternoon and your sunday looking nice and dry. As far as totals are concerned, less than an inch around the district. If you go farther south, that is where we expect the higher totals with possibly over 5 inches. Well get a check on the traffic, closer look at the snow coming up with Melissa Mollet. Taking a look right now at chopper 4 over this problem here this morning. There you go. 95 southbound here at 175. Left lane is the only thing getting by. This tractortrailer back on its wheels. The other box truck is off the roadway. Take a look at the back take bw parkway. We have a lane getting by. It really isnt he
Youre an emergency or telwork ready employee. The this is a look at the map of the School Districts in our area. You can see all that in red nearly every Single School district is closed. However, washington and al allegheny schools are open as of right now. Schools in Mineral County West Virginia are open as well. Frederick county maryland schools on a two hour delay. The School System said it will plan to reevaluate later this morning. You can watch for news alerts on the nbc washington app for any changes that might happen. Check the bottom of your screen for the list of closings. I want to show you live pictures in northwest d. C. Snow out here of course but it tampered off this morning. Lets go to tom for the latest on the forecast. Just a few lingering flurries in northwest washington. The storm team 4 radar showing the bulk of the snow pulled east of the bay. A couple of bands from the Northern Neck across Saint Marys County toward cambridge. Thats one band here the brighter whi
Co. That mix extends into much of Loudoun County and into northern Montgomery County. This area in gray and white is a zone of of wet snow northern loudoun and montgomery, wester county and south and east of there is all rain. Temperatures getting a little bit of the wintry mix all above freezing so melting on roads there. What to wear today, a ra an umb. The hour by hour breakdown over breaking news th could make you late for work. Southbound g. W. Parkway closed between route 123 and spout run parkway. Megan mcgrath with the emergency repairs go on. Reporter this is going to be the closures here, the ramp leading from 123 down to the southbound lanes of the g. W. Parkway. No traffic down there. The problem is a large sinkhole. Its 25x30. Were talking feet not inches here. It is a very large hole in the roadway. All southbound lanes have been closed between 123 and spout run. Ive been told that they havent even started the repair work, so this is something that will be with us for hou
Below freezing, some of the Higher Elevations. Elsewhere, were in the mid to upper 30s, above freezing. The storm team 4 radar showing these little speckles of green. These are zones of some very light green. Its falling into the areas at the Higher Elevations that are above freezing. Thats where there may be just a little bit of slick not, maybe a little bit of light icing forming this. It is very light rain that is falling there now. These counties in this lavender color, under the Winter Weather advisory through 11 00 this morning, includes frederick and maryland as well as frederick in virginia. Loudoun county, northern fauquier, rappahannock, points north and west until 11 00, the threat of icing mainly at the Higher Elevations. There could be some slick spots on some of the roads and sidewalks. And just a little bit of this light freezing drizzle. It will begin to dissipate mid to late morning. Moves farther east in the form of rain. A look at the rain timing for the metro area m