louden county.to the north and west, there could be a light coating and around 2 inches of snowfall. higher amounts up around the maryland/pennsylvania border. 39 is the temperature. you know, whatever falls in the form of snow is going to have a tough time sticking around. it's even 36 in leesburg. 34 in winchester. 32 in frederick. we're okay there. here's the deal for today. up until noontime, we have the best chance of seeing snow fall and accumulate. a little bit we're going to get. by 11:00 a.m., there will be a little left around the area. rain takes over after noon. it's going to be ending right after 3:00. 39 to maybe 40 degrees for a high temperature for today. that is the way it's looking. again, we've got one area that's coming through. another one that may -- another area of snowfall that may lift way to our north and west. so do not think we're going to get a lot of snowfall out of this system. sorry, again, snow lovers. saw a tweet from mike. he says it's fine with him if we don't get

louden county, you could get 1, maybe 2 inches of snow. same around montgomery county and baltimore. then mainly rain from d.c. south and east. we'll talk more about what you can expect behind this system after all this snow and we'll look at new year's eve coming up. >> thank you. >>> this winter storm is expected to affect mostly the northern and western parts of our area. news 4's derek ward has been on the roads this morning monitoring the conditions. derek, what have you seen so far? >> reporter: well, so far, not a lot. we did see some flakes at about 5:00 this morning. this is what we've seen a lot of. these trucks with their flashing lights at the ready to treat the roads. some roads have been treated. early this morning, i saw some of that coming in the district and here in montgomery county. so not a lot they can do now, but they're ready if the conditions should change. we're kind of in a hole right now, but as that hole passes, we'll start to see some precipitation. prudence is the order of the day. >> derek, thank you. >>> roa

and at some point minority and west of d.c., fredrick county into low den -- louden county. we may see some heavier snow. but it's not going to stick. it's conversationtialal type of snow. >> you should be fine tomorrow. if you head out the door and you're going to shop all day long, what you want to do is grab an umbrella or maybe buy one. you can use it and reuse it and then give it to pamela. all righty. this is what we have outside right now. partly cloudy skies. our temperature, 37 degrees. you'll notice the wind chill factor exactly the same as the temperature because the wind has finally died down. earlier in the day 45 where we normally are this time of year, we normally see the temperature just beyond the freezing mark. today, we were pretty close to them. look at that record low of seven degrees set back in 1989. temperatures on our weather bug network. 28 after a high of 45 degrees. we had temperatures just around 47 earlier in alexandria. now at 31. our final stop will take us to lafayette district school. no rain today. but tomorrow it will be a different situat

montgomery county to fredrick county and louden county. all of this moves by midnight tomorrow night. christmas day with lots of sunshine and temperatures in the 30's. tomorrow wintery mix changing to rain. 37 to 42. and the extended outlook shows a more potent storm on wednesday. right now it look like ravenlt could see one to two inches of rain. rain not snow by the time this moves out of here. saturday look as little interesting. of course, that's five days away. a lot can change between now and then. the track right now doesn't look promising. >> all right. different variables to keep our eye on. >> and we've been keeping our eye on the redskins and their playoff run. >> very promising at this point. it's all going to come down to next sunday which is so crazy when they were 3-6 going into the bye. redskins fans woke up to an amazing and tense game with number 10 going on >> well, the redskins had their biggest game of the season. yet, a bigger one still to come. luckily rg-3 was there. what the redskins had to show for it? enjoy it, a