this was the scene just a little while ago in hamden.'s take a look at this visual picture from hamden. there you go. that's hamden, just a little while ago. and a live look outside right now. it is expected, this snow, to continue, to get worse as the evening progresses. there's our live picture. we're live with complete first warning weather coverage. meteorologist tim williams is in the outback. but we're going to begin with bob turk. >> as you mentioned, we had very light snow. in the next couple of hours, temperatures are down to freezing, most places. and the snow is going to really pick up in intensity. in fact, down to the south of us, very heavy echoes showing up. and some of these could bring us two to as much as three inches of snow in one hour. and that's going to really boost the snow totals to amazing amounts by tomorrow morning. the heaviest of this activity will be later tonight. let's say from about 9:00, to 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, side evening -- saturday evening into the morning hours. it begins to taper off later

live first warning weather coverage continues with one of the snow stations stations in hamden. >> the wind is starting to pick up, that's why even though crews have been out since 8:00 in the morning preparing for snow they're focused on wind damage. the remnants taunt marylanders reminding them of the hassles that come with the storm. another one touching down and crews preparing with equipment. >> with the heavy storm, with anything, if you utilize it, it's going to have some maintenance issues. >> for them, it's a labor of love. you're talking about linemen and folks that go out and they go out and work 12 hours and go home afternoon they've lost power. >> reporter: it's a bitter- sweet situation, much of the heavy snow has fallen, bitter because the high wind gusts will likely cause outages. >> we can say we have expectations but it only takes one tree in a very bad position due to saturated ground. >> reporter: the last thing wait to do is wait. they suggest preparing for the worst. >> now is the time to prepare for an outage while we are not expecting the wide-spread outages, we

live in the blowing snow in hamden. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you can see that the winds are really whipping every once in a while out here and bge is prepared for possible power outages and they say with big wind gusts, they could hinder their repair efforts. by all accounts, there will be problems today, how widespread will they be? >> an extra vehicle out because of the wind, they know there's going to be problems. >> especially for traffic lights. causing conflicts, fixing the problem. >> this is just the start as winds pick up intensity throughout the day, bge is preparing for prospect of falling trees. >> you have trees that were in various positions that may not need a lot of wind to bring them down. >> considering how cold it is, i'm sure a lot of people will be cold. >> reporter: there could be instances when we can't use the bucket trucks, when winds are 25 miles per hour or higher it gets dangerous. >> reporter: if you're expecting to fly today, you may want to think again. while it's windy here, it's snowy there and airlines have can