only spots where we could have a little glazing of ice will be up here from hagerstown done to martinsburg. but again most of the light rain has also come to an end briefly, so that will give temperatures a chance to recover just a bit. but four things to know, there could be a few slippery spots right along the pennsylvania border up towards martinsburg. be very careful this morning. it will be dry on the way home today. there is another big blast of super cold arctic air coming our way later this week and that could leave a little chance for snow as we get into the weekend. we'll have more about all that. melissa mollet. >>> we have a closure eastbound l street between 14th and 12th, all lanes belonged because of that investigation. and then 13th between mass and l street, also blocked. 270 looksing on, but again all of this green is rain falling around the area. so use the windshield wipers this morning. connecticut avenue and randolph road, you can see the nice sheen on the roadway for that live camera. and again with safetrack, single tracking silver and orange through december 21st.

martinsburg 3. colder there along i 81. that means temperatures closer to the dewpoint and that's why there. forecast for today, breezy this afternoon, sunshine. we'll go lower to mid 50s for highs north and west you stay in the upper 40s today. just so you know. here's traffic with erin como. >>> 5:07 keeping our eyes on the roads. 270 northbound earlier crash before 370 cleared. traffic is flowing freely as you head out through montgomery county. getting into frederick, maryland this morning. nice and quiet through rockville. i'll let you know if that changes outer loop crash cleared all lanes on earlier ladder that dropped off a vehicle and cleared out of the lanes as well all outer loop lanes 95 to 20 spur back at speed and looking quiet i'll let you know if that changes secondarys in kensington and silver spring same torrey coalsville and i'll let you know if anything pops up. ed in the district, 295 southbound 50 to 11 street no complaint through cheverly inbound 50 and out bound to annapolis great shape on 50. if tha

you factor in the temperatures and winds and we have feeling like it's only 17 martinsburg this hour and 19 gaithersburg and pretty good indication of where we head for the overnight hours and so really it is really very much on the cold side and not rally going anywhere too soon. so, i don't want to say get but prepare for it. so clouds rolling in from the west. all ahead of upper level system that's creating awful lot of lake effect snow. we will see snow showers over the higher elevation through tonight and tomorrow. elsewhere we'll see cloud coverage for now and that will move north. planner for tomorrow:00 hour mostly sunny cold 7 deagrees and only 37 by the time we get to midday. so ridge of high pressure gives us that sunshine tomorrow. wrlly wind become on wrlly flow and then we see this storm system heading to surprised increasing clouds and this will head north. sunday night overnight hours expect to see some precipitation looks like with colder air in place it could start out as little snow rain mix and then it's going to change to all rain monday because we'll get influx

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in the 30s for martinsburg to havingers town. andrews 48 degrees. lingering showers possible, 1:00, 2:00. by 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 we're starting to see things drying out and even hints of sunshine coming through the clouds. we'll be in the 50s today. but later this week we are talking about low temperatures that could be in the single digits for a few spots and windchills in the afternoon in the teens. we'll your seven-day forecast in a bit. >>> police are investigating after a 21-year-old is shot and killed in an up scale area of northwest d.c. last night. no arrests have been made. police are still looking for a suspect and motive. neighbors say when they woke up, they never expected to see crime tape and police cars. wusa9's hillary lane has more. >> reporter: as the sun came up investigators were back at it again, trying to figure out exactly what happened here. in the meantime, neighbors say they can't believe a murder happened on their block. >> it's a very quiet neighborhood. so it's shocking to get up to this news, awful. >> reporter: amal dix

so is martinsburging down below freezing as well. even though mostly cloudy skies.gain the cold stuff is coming for thursday and for friday around here and i mean it will be take your breath away cold. i think especially on thursday with wind blowing and wind chill factors in the single digits and teens most of the day. that's right, i said single digits. 40 this morning at 8 a.m. cloudy skies. chilly, it's going to be cloudy all day long. if you see sunshine not much at all temperatures max up middle 40s. couple showers late day to evening hours too tracking those and couple ever snow flurries north and west. that's about it caitlin roth is in for erin como look agent traffic. hey, caitlin. >> hey there, gary, great start to tuesday, dry roads out. there turned into a nice afternoon yesterday. so, looks likes we'll get that again. decent weather enjoy it while we have it. beltway all smooth through occoquan and as you approach the beltway through springfield you're look going here. inside the beltway etsell road toe 14 street bridge looking at quiet condions. just

enjoy your last full day of fall. 38 for gaithersburg, and 39 for martinsburg, 4 # for the district, 40 for leonardtown. looking at wednesday, temperatures should warm up nicely and close to 50-degrees in many areas and we'll get cool at night into the 30s, but all things considered looking pretty good. tomorrow probably the coolest day we're going to have in the while. wednesday and thursday in the 50s, a little cooler for friday. we talked about a slight chance of showers■ç on christmas eve. a slightly better chance of showers for christmas day and then even warmer on christmas day. if you got some running around to do you will only need a light jacket. don't go anywhere. we've got more to till about, fox5 local news at 11 will be right back. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ how else do you think he gets around so fast? take the reins this holiday and get the mercedes-benz you've always wanted during the winter event. now lease the 2017 gla250 for $329 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. > yesterday $2 wizards proved they can

enjoy your last full day of fall. 38 for gaithersburg, and 39 for martinsburg, 4 # for the district, 40 for leonardtown.eoa looking at wednesday, temperatures should warm up nicely and close to 50-degrees in many areas and we'll get cool at night into the 30s, but allut things considered looking prettt good. tomorrow probably the coolest day we're going to have in the while. wednesday and thursday in theth 50s,ur a little cooler for frid. we talked about a slight chancet of showers■ç on christmas eve. a slightly better chance ofhan showers for christmas day and then even warmer on christmashr day. if you got some running aroundau to do you will only need a light jacket. don't go anywhere.ywhe we've got more to till about, fox5 local news at 11 will bebe right back. ack. > yesterday $2 wizards proved $ they can do what they2 do when they compete at high level.vel. getting it done on the road is a totally different story.ry tonight's second game back tok back facing the pacers. bradley beal coming off a h 41 performance. he gets the rebound, drives up, lay in. the with wizard build an

including 28 from martinsburg, 28 for dulles, 28 for winchester. d.c. still at 34 maintaining the same temperature since last hour. 28 for west minister. the city tends to stay warmer longer, but plenty of cold air on the mapld but i will also sao this it's not brutal out there. heading to the northern plains r you're going to find temperatures near freezing, doww to the south a little bit above average, pacific northwest had a storm move in, desert southwest in the low 70s. all things considered across thc cunt ritz ' pretty quiet. we have a little bit of thin clouds l locally. this is what came into the city northwest. that's working its way into the great plains.lai i'm not even seeing much that would disrupt flight travelligh tomorrow. here at home we skies. a little bit of this cloud deckc will come on through.hro it's not going to do much to to keep us warm. quiet and settled as high pressure continues to build inou helping to get the temperatures right back into the 20 #-s where many places already are, maybe a febew spots into the upper teens as

by 11:30, ce the snow in rain and some of that extends into martinsburg. see if any of that can extend down into northern virginia as well. by tomorrow morning we'll have rain around. so yellow alert, plan for a slow commute on monday morning. midmorning still rain and by lunchtime most of us have lied out except for southern -- dried out except for southern maryland and the lower eastern shore with some sun developing tomorrow afternoon, about 50. as far as how much ice and this is one of the more aggressive models i've looked, maybe 1/8 of an inch in martinsburg. it's not going to be a major event, but with ice you don't need a lot. so if you have early plans on monday, you might want to delay them or give yourself a lot of extra time. cloudy and cold tonight, rain developing late, 29 to 39, night see temperatures rise a bit toward mog. raw, early ice, early afternoon sunshine coming back, milder, low 50s. three-day forecast, tuesday 48, isolated rain or snow shower, wednesday partly to mostly cloudy, some flurries at night, really cold air coming down,

now as you head north and west of town, all the way up past martinsburg under the mountains, they've got subzero windchills that will continue throughout thursday into friday as well. we roll the clock forward into friday morning, although the winds won't be quite as bad the feels-like temperatures will be a little bit colder because the actual temperatures will be colder as well. so here's kind of the breakdown what we're expecting. what you need to dress the kids in both mornings heading to the bus stop. it's like the last week before kids are out from school for a couple of weeks. it's going to be cold so thursday morning, dress for a 10-degree temperature. or 9 degrees in some of those suburbs. then for friday morning, the actual temperature is colder and feels-like temperatures also going to be running in the single digits. so the next three days, 40s today and tomorrow with the rain or snow showers this evening. temperatures to haveff wednesday night and thursday it stays cold. a wintry mix saturday morning and changing to rain saturday afternoon. we'll be right back with more

this hour, 39 at quantico and 23 at gaithersburg and martinsburg. the winds will gradually start to diminish as we move through into tonight. improvementprovsomvee in that.in there has not been a lot of of significance in terms of wind chills for the better part ofof the day, but for tonight, as we start getting a little bit colder that definitely will be an issue.an here's a look the a the highs for today. look at these numbers, unbelievable because we really should be 45, 46-degrees. 67, 63, 63. it's like spring.ring it doesn't seem like it's a week going into the christmas holiday, does it? we are getting a reality check because now our temperatures are going to get back be. right now it's 41.'s 40 at baltimore, 41 at leonardtown, 41 at culpeper, take a look to the north and northwest where our temperature are only inour the 30s right now and getting even colder for our overnight lowe's will be into the 20s pretty much every where and i can't rule out some teens especially around the elevationt ridge of high pressure in consu role forre tomorrow.

it's cold in martinsburg this t morning, below freeze there. listen skies. i don't think these temperatures are going to drop off a whole lot more. maybe a degi redoen' aref a ow there. some of these numbers could go up a degree or two. two i mentioned last time there'se e some snow back out to the westt here and these little snowtle showers super light. moving in our direction.on i don't think -- most of this-- will not come across thess the mountains but you see a flurry y out west this morning inin northwest, it's possible.ossibl. another round of colder air is getting set back to the westes of us that will move through thu during the late afternoonfter that but it will start getting t colder late afternoon into the evening hours and the nexthoura couple of days are going to beob really cold. chilly this morning at 8:00rng t a.m., mostly cloudy o sun and ad clouds through at the rest ofouh the day. a temperatures will be upperur 40's teso right around fiftyrout five degrees or so and lateate today and into the eveninghe it's actually going get ag little b

hagerstown and martinsburg now at 33, winchester at 32. radar shows even though there is light rain along i-95 and the capitol beltway, there is some break in the action. but with temperatures near the freezing mark #, there could be a blaze on some hand rails and side streets. so be very careful. so watch out for slick spots north of the city. it will be dry later today. another huge blast of cold air comes in later in the week. 10 day forecast at 5:51, and that cold could lead to a little snow chance by the weekend. >>> taking a look at 270, brand new crash southbound just before buckeystown pike. looks like it's on the right shoulder. that is pretty of the only portion of 270 that is without rain falling. all of the green is rain falling across the area. looking at 66, 66 is okay. 95, you can see slow downs north through wood bridge. pretty normal for this time of day. lynn top hall road, a crash reported. trying to get more information on that one. in northwest, this is where kristin wright is for us this morning, 32nd and chestnut shu

eight miles an hour wind with 32 degrees puts the wind chill this the 20s. 20 in gaithersburg, 17 martinsburg and 27 in culpepper. you just need a little bit of wind and it really makes things a lot different. makes things feel so different. the wind takes the heat off your body. hagerstown, warren ton, we are on the dry side. all just cold. up to the north they continue to see the lake effect snow showers. these come as the cold air moves over the relatively warm waters of the great lakes. that shows you we are seeing the cold air moving all the way down into our region as well. we are not going to see snow but the cold air will continue to these aren't wind chills, these are temperatures. 23 in roanoke. atlanta at 33, dc at 32. really cold numbers across the eastern half of the nation. that looks like it's going to stick around. how about the wind chill? as we move through the overnight hours tomorrow morning is very similar to where we are right now. 24 dc at 8:00 a.m., 19 martinsburg. 23 culpepper. 18 in gaithersburg. 1:00 in the afternoon, the winds pick up a little bit. not as breezy as

martinsburg 21.urg 2 frederick 10 miles per hourk 10 and winchester m is 15.g see here,e, the winds will ramp up aamp up little bit more through therohe morning hours.g hou. so we're going to be sustainedin today 15, 20, 25 miles per5 mile hour with gifts to 30, maybe mae even some gusts up to aboutbo 40 miles per hour or so and aond little bit of that that wind is kind of driving snowngno flurries over the mountains moui and in our direction. direction. i'll show that you in a second. right now wind chill factorw how it feelswind outside based o those sustained winds feelseels like 32 in winchester and itr a feels like 23 and it feels, n-gaithersburg 32 here.burg little bit of light flurryight y activity coming through.ty c we'll see some of that thishat h morning, maybe occasionallybe o today as well. l but definitelyefinel blustery and cold.ry a cold. there's you remember forecast.ms how some traffic.how erin como she's doisong doublee duty this morning.orni. >> we got it 4:46 right now. now look at that. we are wide opened on 95 on cruising past dale boule

we'll get close to that. 0 at martinsburg, zero at the map. you know you're talking about one cold night. nothing on the radar currently. we're not going to see anything. we're not expecting anything over the next 24 hours. we're looking back to the west tracking the next storm system here. it's aarm front trying to make its way across the country. as it does, it will move our way. we'll start off with sunshine and move into cloud cover. i want to show you here on future weather around 5:00, still seeing some sun. here come the clouds around 11:00, we start to see some snow back well to our west. we're not expecting much in the way of snow out of this. most of that can stay to the north. look around 6:00 a.m., ice and freezing rain. hagerstown, frederick, possibly getting as far south as d.c. the best chances from baltimore to frederick right on back towards martinsburg. the whole thing lifts up to the north and east. it has prompted the national weather service to list a winter storm watch goes into effect late friday night. with everything w

fact martinsburg and hagerstown asurn well as westminster. look at dulles at a 33-degree 3e wind chill and gaithersburgersbr 32t association we know thisis is a big night with the mgmgm opening at 11 o'clock for thefor general public. pub that that wind chill att windll 11 o'clock is going to be about 23 degrees. 18 degrees in gaithersburg.therr 21 for winchester hagerstown 15, 25 for leonardtown.eo here comes the cold air and to d get you ready for tomorrowom morning real cold start with chills head down into the teens. teen 21 in the district.t. to 12 in martinsburg. 14 in winchester.inches 19 in annapolis and 19 in a 1 baltimore. so, we're getting ready for aeay very cold friday. friy. breezy conditions are going too continue with us and this iss just round one of the cold airol coming into town. into town. we have another one to dealo del with next week. we'll have a look at that withh the weekend details in the seven-day forecast coming upfore in a few minutes. minut matt, sarah, back to you. y >> thanks sue.>>s conspiracy theorists are

winchester was below zero, frederick was below freezing -- below zero and martinsburg was flo belowinsburso single digits to around zero and below in somee cases. today we're going go fromsey weo sunshine to clouds.ing clos. temperatures will be in theill upper 20's and the low 30's.ows. a little breezy but it's nots going to be windy so wind chill factors today wilo wil be generally in the 20's all day long. i think that's manageablemanagee especially compared to yesterday. all right. cold air is in place tonightpeci in p so wela light snow to come across lateol this evening, early, early tomorrow and when i say lighti i mean light but you know you kw what, it's so cold the roadsheoa are so cold it won't take verye much snow at all to create some slippery dangerousanro conditions. so, just be mindful of that.f t but i do not believe there's a a lot of precip to be had hereer so when i say light i meanht i a light snow. then we have minor snow we haven accumulation maybe a dustingti to a coatingon in some spots.e s then that goes over to potentially a glaze of ice oe with some sleet and f

it started thursday night at the resource recovery facility on martinsburg road. darcy spencer is live there now and has the latest o on how this blaze could impact trash collection in the county. >>> the smoke from it this fire is pretty bad depending on which way the wind is e blowing. it has a horrible smell. i want to show you where the fire is burning. right here in this build ing this is the incinerator area u for montgomery county. the fire is confined to this building. you can see the top part where they had to pull a hole in the building so they could get in and put water. this is very stubborn. they are having a hard time putting this fire out. they have been out here since about 6:30 on thursday evening working around the clock. but again, it's still not out. it's confined. looking at several more days of being able to get this completely out. they are facing a lot of challenges here. as we put water on the fire, it smokes up and then it's hard for them to operate. if you live in a single family home, you will not be impacted. but if you're in a multifa

not terrible, though two an martinsburg, but we'll continue to monitor this and maybe theyb breezy will pick up and disburse some of this.is. that's the only thing we're going to worry about overnight.i we're not worried aboutt temperatures dropping blow freezing.free winchester 36, martinsburg 37, d.c. is 46 degrees. again a little bit of patchyhy fog. for temperatures to stay steadyy or to just drop just a littlesta bit. don't worry about the wet spots it doesn't look like it will get cold enough for that to happen. there's a dryer day ahead. there may be a few clouds around tomorrow morning that they'll break up with sunshine and with that sunshine you'll see the temperatures heading right on up to the low 50s.. the snow showers will push psh p away.away if the clouds don't break up for your morning commute they willll shortly after as a frontal boundary enterings on through.er the coldestin air of t rolls into town later this week. i'll have more on that andon whether or not t we see a snow shower with that coming up later. > new tonight, a, woulder withh united medical center in so

30s. 36 at baltimore, a chilly 32 at gaithersburg, the same at winchester, 35 at dulles, 37 at martinsburghe winds are pushing in from the northwestor and so your overnight lowe's into the 20s, a lot cooler ofolr course to the north and northwest into the low 20s there. but at least when we get intont tomorrow, as i said, the winds won't be quite as bad when our highs into the 30 #-s. satellite radar composite showing you where all the precipitation is now.ip weit have a really nice dry slot going for on us. ridge of high pressure in control tomorrow. plenty of sunshine, just a few clouds. don't be fooled by the sun. i always tell you this. it is really going to be coldd out there with the temperaturesa only in the 30s and we shoulduld really be into the mid 40s. not happening.ap football game for tomorrow, cold, dress very warm,m, 27-degrees by the time kickoff starts under some partly cloudya skies. here's your planner for tomorrow, sunshine, 44-degree,44 just a few clouds. 36 by the time we hit the 4:00 and wrapping it up for you thenh for tonight a very colder 27-degrees in the north a

feels like it's only 22 right now in dc. 18 at dulles, that's the same for martinsburg and hagerstownmore. so definitely, yes, take the advice and get that heat turned up, you're really needing it. overnight lows will be into the 20's and 30's, as always, a lot colder to the north and northwest, of course, and we're talking, you know, sunday sunshine, lots of clouds, but also still cold. we're going to have changes coming up in that seven-day forecast and i'll have those details later. jim? >>> thank you, fox 5 is in fairfax county where tonight a fire forced dozens of people out of their apartment buildings. the flames have been put out the people who live there have to scramble to find somewhere else to go. fox 5 lindsay watts with story. >> reporter: fire crews have been here hours in freezing conditions. about 65 firefighters responded after two top floor apartments caught fire. those two apartments were destroyed and ten others left with water and smoke damage. one person was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. more than 40 people out of their homes. the red cross is

still enough of a breeze to generate wind chills tonight and in some cases below 0 nine downtown, 2 martinsburg. 4 in cumberland. good news is winds subside tomorrow. we turn attention to next event. this is more of an ice storm. we have a winter storm watch for fredrick, maryland, grant, mineral hardy, all friends out in the mountains for primarily sleet and freezing rain. starts out as snow, yes. may get an inch if west of hagerstown. big deal is friday night, stay off the roads to saturday morning. we'll come back and talk about when change occurs inside the belt way and look ahead to the rest of the weekend. >>> a south carolina jury waste nod time finding dylan roof guilty of the 2015 charleston church shooting. death penalty for gunning down nine black parishioner during the bible study. during closing arguments, prosecutors called him a hate filled coward who shot and killed nine black worshipers at emmanuel ame church. they said roof sat there and waited until they were at most vulnerable to open fire. during the six day trial, roof's video tape confession was shown to fbi. >> what kind

that's where concerns are for snow and winter snow and winter weather adviceyes martinsburg. >> pink there could mix with sleet. only place we're concerned about accumulating sleet or snow would be higher elevations above 1,000, 2,000 feet or so. by this afternoon rain builds in and at the evening commute could have heavy rain in d.c. and most accumulating snow stays north. we're got ready for that yet in washington. 45 daytime high today. temperatures just about everywhere hanging in the 40s. big time cold air comes our way later this week, though, because it's a "fox5" accuweather forecast. see it there. saturday and sunday highs in 30s. >> let's check the forecast erin como has what's now a very busy traffic. >> 6:49 sky fox made it to breaking news we're tracking out of stafford. crash involvinging a train and intersection of brent and we have mark doyle assistant chief with stafford fire you can hear us. >> i can hear you. >> thank you for joining us. tell us a little. let's switch to maps when we talk to mark. tell us about the crash i understand there's no injuries involved. >

temperatures uniform tomorrow and midmorning to lunchtime 37 at 1:00 and 35 martinsburg, 35 winchester. tomorrow evening temperatures won't fall as quickly or as far and cold, 36 at 6:00. 31 gaithersburg. 31 in frederick, 34 leesburg. not crazy for december. rest of the week looks good. on the day planner 20s to start an35 by 11:00 and 39 with sunshine by 1:00. wednesday a little bit milder pretty mild with eisner 50. next seven days friday a quiet and seasonable travel day in the mid-atlantic and the metro area 48. saturday sunshine 54. showers on sunday and more saturday night something going through saturday night to sunday and not going to get cold. after christmas 64 next monday.>>> cam newton are in town and hope not on top of the game. >> last year it was not pretty. it's a new year and new day and time. >> it's a new season and everything he said. you never know what can happen. riding momentum of a big win but so are the redskins. will look at tonight's game plus the big factor coming into tonight josh norman facing his nor -- former >>> now wusa9 game on sports with kristen b

42 degrees right now in at mannasas and 39 quantico and fredericksburg 36 and winchester 38 and martinsburg this hour. something in my throat i think. excuse me. let's take a look at national map. you can see all this cold air that is moving its way down here across the region. and that is going to continue to head through. we have a northwesterly wind and that's been pretty brisk for us today. it's finally light you know what we'll have wind chills out there and it will feel colder than it actually s let's look at wind gusts today, folks, excuse me. baltimore at 36 mile per hour wind gusts across the area and in d.c. at 29. sorry i had a drink of water there oh, my goodness. >> keep it together. >> i got a tickle going on. >> somebody takeover? >> we can talk weather for you. >> i'm going to make sure you get this forecast. >> do it. >> they want my job. >> dulles 36 and andrews 30 mile an hour wind gusts. the wind now are fairly calm though and that's at least good news. we're still going to have a pretty cold night ahead and still feel impact. plenty of clouds rolling in and just continu

notice martinsburg, hagerstown and frederick could see a mix early. the roads should be above freezing. i'm not too worried here. look at this, 5:00, 6:00 a.m., it's out of here and transitioned to rain as warmer air moves in. rain sticks around for the rush around 7:00. more rain around the 9:00 hour before pulling out of here by around the 9:00, 10:00. by noon, everybody's dry and we just see cloud cover remaining. then the sun comes out tomorrow afternoon. so a big day of transition tomorrow from rain early in the day, to some sunshine and then it gets very windy and back to the west, the winds will actually be upslope winds on the mountains and that's going to winter storm watches back toward garrett county, maryland, so something else to watch out for. now i mentioned the winds. nothing in d.c. you're going to see gusty winds. 20 to 30 miles per hour tomorrow night into friday. look at this. wind advisory in effect for winds gusting upwards of 45 miles per hour. still into portions of hagerstown, winchester, martinsburg, front royal. heads up bac

current number in washington. 0 sgaimingersburg and westminster and frederick dropped to 20s. 36 martinsburghour. cumberland 7. 32 at had hour in leonard up to. big blizzard through the dakotas. offer a foot of snow before all is said and done and turns into showers as the front extends down to the warmer air. get cloud cover pull in ahead of system and it's along frontal boundary stretching to ohio and west virginia and scattered showers could turn to freezing rain north of here. look at future cast as we head through the course of tomorrow morning if you travel north watch for anywhere you see the pink towards williamsport or to state college areas knowledge of of there syracuse, new york. could deal with patchy icing. not any sort of ice storm or something causing major travel headaches but be aware travel slick spots north. mostly clouds. can't rule out drizzle here and there and most stay dry through the day tomorrow and it's tuesday morning when a front swings through we have a better chance of seeing showers. by the afternoon we get back to sunshine and briefly in the mid 60s. nice tu

martinsburg is 33. it's these areas well north and west of the metro there could be sleet where the precipitation begins in the morning. majority of the area, metro points east and south will have all rain all the time. the wake untemperature is 40 in the -- wakeup temperature is 40 in the city. on the bay, the temperatures are around the 40's. to low 40's early in the morning. the heaviest rain is well downstream. but it will move northeast steadily. overnight tomorrow and it looks as though the future cast shows the leading edge of the rain will get in the metro area sometime between 9:30, 10:30 tomorrow morning. notice on this map, areas of purple indicate most likely spot for sleet. even in those areas i think much of an impact. plenty of rain through the midday and the afternoon. it could be heavy at times. it will move out. clearing overnight tomorrow. wednesday is back to sunshine and moderate temperatures. as far as how much rain, this is the projected. some see .8- .9 of an inch across most of

started with a look at the current temperatures and we've got gaithersburg down to 12-degrees, 12 in martinsburg, 10 in winchester, 19 grows here in d.c. mighty cold tonight that's for sure. and what a dramatic change in 24 hours. last night at 11:00 it was 2 # degrees warmer than it now. almost 32-degrees warmer in frederick burg. plenty of places seeing single digits even though the winds have gotten much better. still a cold day tomorrow, not as windy as it was today. so that will help the wind chills not to feel horrendous. let me show you what you can expect for the kids at the bus stop tomorrow morning. air temperatures between 12 and 20, wind chills five to 206789 after school 24 to 32. wind chills of 16 to 27 as the clouds begin to thicken and the clouds will lead us into what we'll be talking about a few minutes. a winter storm watch that will be in effect until midnight for some of the northern counties. thank you very much. as the year closes, c mayor muriel bowser sends an e-mail to residents detailing her team's accomplishments and touting a decrease in crime in the district. but th

at 55and petersburg degrees. 39 in winchester and martinsburg. so the push of southwesterly wind is very strong, just overhead, bringing the warmer air in. i think everybody gets into the 50's today. some areas may pop into the upper 50's briefly. we will call generally 53. the rain is behind cloudy later. interesting to watch because we will have high clouds at times. call it partly cloudy. as we get through tomorrow morning, nothing strong wind wise, but temperatures will turn cooler for the day tomorrow. as we get into early wednesday, all our attention goes to the west. tomorrow afternoon, rain showers to the west. kind of cloudy around the metro area with temperatures in the 40's. brief showers running south of town late tomorrow night, but we will focus out west because that will be the arrival later wednesday, and arctic cold front. first we will see sunshine early wednesday, but then as the arctic front arrives, the wind will get gusty and the temperatures are going to tank. let's give you an idea at the bus stop tomorrow morning. 35 degr

martinsburg here 46 degreesgr where they just had a gust ofguf 36 miles an hour within thehouri last hour so again some of those winds heading in our direction for this afternoon tht do beerno prepared.pa >>> 54 by 10:00 a.m. today,ay lots of sunshine.lo of by 1 o'clock 56 degrees.6 degr again we'll keep the breezes brz sunshine all day long. lg. 57 degrees and cool as we head a through the course of youre of u thursday afternoon.ernoon. weekend is almost here.is can't wait. that's a check of the weather. r hardest working woman inrking ni traffic erin como on her wayay in. in. >> thank you mike. tha unfortunately for a lot ofunat commuters around the dmv need dn a lot of patience today.ofatie 295 southbound it's reopenedeo between burroughs and benning bi road after a serious injury iur crash involving 10 injuries0 inr and six cars has cleared. cared delays still linger frominr from powder mill road down insideil pennsylvania. there was an earlier crash atlit 50. that cleared so at least allea l lanes on 295 have reopened.eone but 50 is completely parkedy from the beltway and it's a

we expect to drop down to 28 in the district, martinsburg 5 and culpeper one of the cold spots as is-degrees expected overnight. so for the kids tomorrow morning at the bus stop, # 2 to 30. after school feeling a little bit better, 45 to 5 t #* degrees and here's a look at your planner for wednesday again, a chilly start in the morning by noon up to 43-degrees with a good amount of sunshine and a few high thin clouds and by 4:00, 50-degrees. around the area it could be that north and west you stay closer to the mid 40s, but fredericksburg 51-degrees, looking pretty good there. your seven day forecast, tomorrow 5:44 in the morning and all of these temperatures that you see her are above average, even next week when we may be close to 60-degrees certainly forth first couple of days so we're staying mild next week, chance of showers on tuesday at 61. it should be very easy traveling that is for sure. don't go anywhere, much more to te t you about, fox5 local news at 11 will be right back. > this could just be a cancellation price, four redskins were selected to the annual pro bowel it w

meanwhile tonight for hagerstown, martinsburg, winchester, made 30s ought to do it for tonight. upper 0 to near 40 for points closer in. the breeze comes from the fact that high pressure will be just to the west and in the process of building in. that's kind of banks some clouds up against the mountains typically but it will be a dry sunny day on the other the appalachians and we'll see the sunshine lasting throughout the day. 8:00 a.m., 40-degrees. kind of chilly. definitely feeling a lot coral than the morning did. by noon, 48-degrees, breezy and by 4:00, 52-degrees and a cool, cool start. here's how your weekend starts with the high pressure closer to us. it's the north breezy that breeze in the cooler conditions. a little trough in the atmosphere may swing in sunday night and it will keep your temperature capped in the upper clouds on sunday. there's a look at your weekend forecast and let's check out your fox5 seven day forecast because in the next week now more clouds for monday. 53 degrees. maybe a be s stanchion and helpful rain on tuesday with a temperature of 46-degree

digits to near zerado.ar z feels like 7 degrees in the in district, hagerstown feels fee like zero, martinsburg zero as a well but partly cloudy skies par out there. what a sho cking temperaturepe 22 degrees warmer and you knowok what, we're going to be able to ditch this cold air and seesd a big warmup as well as we get on into the weekend which willcl bring new challenges as well asl but for this evening if you'ree heading out 7:00 p.m.0 p.m. temperature about 24, 9 o'clock 23. we might have to drop that9 tort down just a little bit but of bf course the wind we also we a believe is going to slowly but surely get a little bit better t so not as windy on friday.ri it will still be cold butd b maybe it will be a little bititi easier to take. tke. by 7 o'clock this evening winds, future wind gusts inus the 20's. by 11 o'clock tonight, near nea went to maybe 24 miles an hour wind gusts around the region. asts w aroe get out to fridayy morning, still picking up somee winds gusting to 20 miles an mia hour but that sure beats those t 50 miles an hour gusts we had wh today and watch the wind direction

martinsburg a little bit coral at 38. a little bit of a given in thel system. the colder air is still pretty far off to the north and west. pittsburgh 31, but chicago 10-degrees, detroit 25. that's the cold air that we'll be tracking coming in herein tomorrow night and in place for thursday. so for this evening, 43-degrees with a the look of clouds around. we have a gym net meteor shower tonight. it will be hard to see because of the clouds.clou maybe a light shower of rain or snow here and there widely scattered. by 11:00 same deal, but shortly after 11 ultimate see see on our futurecast it doesn't look likek much will be left. at 11:00 maybe we'll have a couple of showers here andand there. a bit of snow in the mountains sunshine. we'll start sunny on our wednesday.wedn we ' see clouds and with the clouds coming in the afternooneo also the wind will start to pick up and that ill with be the first sign that the artic blast is in coming. here's a look at the bus stopus for wednesday. pickup temperatures seasonably cool, 20s and 30s, maybe even cold we could say

it's 44 degrees in the districtly 36 dulles, hagerstown, martinsburg, 37, winchester 32 it's not windy yet either. but all that cold air is banked against the mountains and it will not be long before that front is going to push that into our area. chicago is 12. detroit and columbus 16, pittsburgh 22 degrees. and on satellite and radar, while we have the lake effects snow squalls going to get another foot in some of these areas but we will watch that frontal boundary and as it gets closer might be able to get enough lift going with a little bit of limited moisture to squeeze out some snow squalls or showers. let us know if you're seeing them on twitter and facebook and we'll be watching radar too and plan to jump on facebook around 8:45 tonight and give you an update end certainly at 10:00. here's futurecast. not everybody gets this. it does tend to bloom through the big populated areas, montgomery county, prince george's county, fairfax, dc, maybe a bit of sleet mixed in. by 1:00, but notice how kind of spreads out a little bit here over the delmarva and gone by tomorrow morning. so t

futurecast kei kamara 55. 55 martinsburg and fredericksburg 47 degrees. 5:00 in the morning if you are through pennsylvania heading home or waiting for your loved ones to come back home you will see showers through the mountains. too warm for snow so good for travelers. tomorrow midmorning look how it falls apart. most showers west of 81 and as the front gets going and out of our way we will see chances for showers in the mid afternoon in southern maryland and the northern neck and sunshine in the afternoon. feeling nice tomorrow and comfortable day. wednesday sunshine and temperatures a little more appropriate this time of year around 50 degrees. thursday another chance for showers and not a day. tomorrow, thursday and sunday all chances for showers and nothing looks too great. the next substantial chance for showers doesn't arrive until monday and that's a week away. we will keep you up-to-date. 41 to 45 increasing temperatures tonight and cloudy skies and breezy through tomorrow. 64 to areas north and west and into the upper 60s heading further south. showers wednesday and couple on

it feels like three below in martinsburg. a balmy washington. more on the threat coming up in a few more minutes as well as your school day forecast. >>> taking a look right now at the top of the beltway, everything moving nicely as is 95. 270 we showed you the live picture northbound and southbound, everything rolling along nice and green. don't have any road work there to worry about. do have this road work, eastbound 66 before glebe. a reminder surge 1 is still under way until wednesday. >>> police are asking for your help to find a chevy chase man. 25-year-old david lewis walther is described as a hispanic male, 5'4", 140 pounds. he may be driving a blue dodge ram pickup truck with maryland tags. if you've got any information that could help find this man, please call police. >>> in 2010 he was led away from his home in handcuffs. this morning he's waking up in a halfway house. former prince george's county executive jack johnson was released from prison after doing time for a public corruption scandal. he pled guilty to shaking down contrac

we are at 50. 48 in waldorf, 45 in martinsburg. when you factor in the wind it feels colder than that. looks good from the michael and son weather camera except for the traffic. thankfully you're not in it if you're watching me. welcome to meteorological winter. december, january and february. chilly and dry weekend ahead. december now. the average highs in the low 50s in town. a shower maybe monday but a better chance to see rain here on tuesday. so we are going to be dry for several days. leslie, no excuses, get the lights up. we have the west, northwestern flow. clouds may generally stay in the mountains. we may see some sunshine. with the cold air north we are going to stay chilly through the weekend. highs in the upper 40s, low 50s. the nighttime lows mostly in the 30s. now, as we get towards saturday morning still a breeze. i'm watching this high and the moisture to the south. the high builds in first. that will be later saturday night and sunday. the winds will relax some. the moisture to the south is going to try to make it

of the year.ye 6 # still outside in washington. 58 baltimore objection, 55 in annapolis, 55 in martinsburg and 54 out in winchester.nche the winds have come down, too, andeven though the cold front has passed since moving offshore you can see where the cold airir is lagging back off towards oura north and west. 39 in columbus, 32 in detroittri and 27 in chicago. a nice mild did he, 48 in boston.bo that's mild for boston. you can see the clouds clearingd southern maryland and a couplepe them hanging tight south and s east of 95.95 a long the delmarva, a cloudy day and remains a cloudy nightgt into central virginia we got the best of the sunshine here in washington and points north and west but we should all be clearr overnight tonight.t to our futurecast after we get through a sunny wednesday and a clear start to wednesday nightht we'll fast forward to thursdayhs morning where in coming problems. here's 5:00 a.m. notice it's main showers in shall what thanh to, but higher elevations north and west of 95 you've got someot snow mixing in for hagerstown, for frederick and then the ping line in

not too cold. 35 martinsburg. it's not here just yet. just off to the west. i am tracking snow showers. this is actually snow up towards the baltimore area. not really hitting the ground just yet but it's trying. this is with this arctic cold front. you can see it. there is the snow showing up. also snow back towards west virginia. and wouldn't be surprised in this area to see it break out in this area over the next one to two hours. not going to produce much, do produce a coating on the back deck or on your car. behind this that's where the cold air is. really frigid. we are talking about teens. and they are talking about negative tins in chicago. 5 in chicago. 20 in pittsburgh. that's where the cold air is, just off to our west. notice here, by early tomorrow morning our temperature is down to 22. pittsburgh down to 9. again, these are temperature temperatures. not wind chills. let's look at the wind chills. how about that? n 30s, 20s to the north and west. in the morning, 4 in martinsberg. remember i said of the might feel like 1. how about 2, 9 in manassa

meanwhile as we check temperatures around the region 11:00 it's 25 frederick and 27 martinsburg and dulles.c. about 6. so not nearly as cold as we've been on other nights but definitely chilly and you'll notice that if you head out. you will also notice the breeze tomorrow afternoon as frontsal boundary comes through in the afternoon and could gust up and over 25 miles an hour at times and so tomorrow morning chilly at the bus stop for kids and 32 to 3 in morning and after school looking nice on thermometer. 48 to 53 and gusty breeze blowing last of leaves around and 50 feeling cooler. there's the front passing on through that we'll not only get gusts to 25 locally but could be as high as 35 or 40 when get to higher elevations to the west. range of temperatures that we're expecting and wanted to just show you. very quickly as we look at weekend here, 49 on christmas eve and we're going to see a few showers around mid to late morning and early part of afternoon the way it's looking now. sunday even brighter 50 and wait for this on "fox5"accuweather 7-day forecast even next week temperatures

martinsburg 38, haagersburg 39, mar continuesburg 42. if you you're in the 30s you'll be in the 40s. we'll make it up to 5 for the high above normal this time year and the breeze will keep it chilly. winds northwest this afternoon. 10 to 20 with occasional gusts up over 20 miles an hour. still going to be a little breezy and cool out there. expect more sunshine as we get into the afternoon. we'll talk about that in the next forecast. here's erin como. it's traffic time. hi, erin. >> hi, gary. right now 4:46 and 270 southbound nice quiet commute and new crash popped up in montgomery county. 270 northbound approaching 70. little caution through rockville this morning noticing wet conditions along the strep of 270 both directions and norp loop, outer loop, 95 baltimore washington parkway all looking good. morning flight to catch this wednesday morning traffic on way to bwi and baltimore looking good. and same story on way to reagan national and dulles is the morning morning. no complaints across the legion bridge and 234 to 228 nice and qui

, a really nice afternoon. 55 in annapolis, still mild there, 48 in baltimore, 45 dulles, 46 in martinsburg and some cooler air is moving through already. you can see it's 39 in culpeper, so i do expect we'll all fall into the 30s overnight and then noticeably cooler during the day to. you can see where the cool air is, 37 in pittsburgh, 32 in columbus, 4 # chicago. it has been lagging behind the front that came through this morning, but that front continues to move offshore and the colder air starts to pile on in. satellite and radar not showing much clear skies overhead. some clear skies overhead. some cloud cover up in pennsylvania. but very quiet really, just all across the country, not seeing much of anything. here's your day planner for tomorrow. as you step outside and get ready to go to work for those of you who do have to return to work tomorrow you're going to need the heat on in the car instead of not needing like today. 50-degrees by 4:00 p.m. we should briefly touch 50, but most of day we spend in the 40s. back to the winter h-like chill, but nothing too cold. our normal high i

so it kind of felt good even though there wasn't a lot of sunshine, 39 already in martinsburg and gaithersburg, 43 at pax river, 43 at front royal. we are below freezing in the mountains and that's a problem. we've got some rain coming in. that may come down with sleet in the higher elevations and also in parts of the blue ridge, winter weather advisories up for those few locations. there will be less than an inch of a slow/sleet mix and maybe i think most of it falls overnight. the snows are falling across the great lakes here, indiana and ohio. we've got rain down well to the south andest with. high pressure gave us -- south and west. high pressure gave us the lighter winds today. 10:00 rain knocking on the doorstep at d.c. and pockets of pink showing up in the mountains. that's that wintery mix. in pennsylvania the blue is snow, so north of the turnpike maybe 1 to 3 inches up there morning. at 2:30 the rainless top of us, but by 6 a.m. about all of -- rain is on top of us, but by 6 a.m. about all of the rain has scooted east. another system will arrive tuesday after the morning commute midd

martinsburg 38.rtinsb so, a lot of 30's now out there. again, once the sun comes up u we'll start to break up the clouds. we're certainly going to ben addidsng b to techis at all thit morning. and again, temperatures mightgh drop off a little bit more bute again we're going lower too mid-50's for highs today with sunshine.suns cold air comes our way lateate week so we'll get ready for that. bitter cold air as well and there could be a little bit of a a mixture out there tomorrowre w morning north and west.rn we'll talk more about thatin coming up.g talk m right now we got tocoming u talt traffic.fi hopefully these roads keep roadk drying out erin. eri >> gary we have breaking news. shut down just south of south of quantico and that is because ant of a tractor-trailer crash involving a fuel spill. hazmat crews have been crews hab requested to that location.hat your best bet to get around aro that go ahead and exit northtor of that points onto 6619. onto hop offer 619, take route oneteo southbound around the 95 southbound closure. closu you