mary's county right around mechanicsville and through calvert county right around calvert beach.uys know just about every week i go out and visit at least one school around the area. this week i went to one school across the region and this one over toward bcs, bethesda community school where i talked to the fabulous 5s, the 5-year-old kids there. let me get out of the way so you can see these kids. take a look at this picture. fantastic kids all learning about the weather. i was amazed at how smart these kids were. teachers are doing a good job over there at bethesda community school right here in montgomery county. as far as the temperatures go out there right now, take a look this number. right now 70 degrees out there at the airport. we're looking at mostly clear skies now so a nice evening for the rest of us. dew point at 55. winds out of the southwest at about 9 miles per hour. tonight, this evening, looking pretty good. overnight tonight not bad. 52 in washington. 49 in manassas. 47 over toward frederick under partly cloudy skies and then mostly clear skies by the time you

there it s the heavier band north of lonual beach to south of mechanicsville to st. leonard. i think you'll see that for another hour to two hours tops. where it's snowing heavily, we have temperatures which are down in the low 30s with bill in newland saying he got 3 inches of snow to north and west sun is coming out. charleston, 37 degrees now. 34 in leesburg. 39 fort belvoir. up in columbia 36. crofton 39. so a chilly day. as we look outside, we still have generally cloudy skies on our michael & son weather camera with a temperature of 40. windchill is 33 right now with the north, northwest winds at 13. here's our clipper quickly moving through. some snow showers in the mountains now of west virginia, eastern kentucky. but as this slides away from us, we'll see a little bit of sun in a couple of spots but also the threat this afternoon for not much more than a passing flurry or snow shower and maybe even a couple of rain showers well south of town. but we've got the cold air in place, just cold enough for the snow. by 6:00 tonight, the storms off shore. a couple of flurrie

but south of town, areas in fredricksburg, maybe over toward la plata, maybe down toward mechanicsville and culpeper, you have a better chance of seeing that little bit of snow on the grass than we do. noontime temperatures upper 30s to around 40. we'll finish the day mostly cloudy and 44 degrees with an area of low pressure coming out of west virginia. that's a little clipper system coming out of kentucky as well. already snowing in places like roanoke and lynchburg. you can see it south of charlottesville right now. spoke to charlie in catlett. he said he still has stars but clouds moving in quickly. call per is 27. we -- culpeper is 27. we sit at 32. don't be surprised if a couple of snow flakes later on, highs in the low 40s. >>> if you're planning to head out on the beltway, we have word from maryland state police that this accident we've been telling you about on the outer loop near university boulevard is five cars, minor injuries. everything is on the left side of the roadway. take a look at the delay it's causing on the outer loop. we'll take a live look from our mdot camera at

during a halloween parade in mechanicsville dressed up as what he says was a zombie holiday of the prophet he was attacked by a muslim man during a parade. he said that in court. the judge sympathized with the alleged attacker and admonished him. i want you to listen what the judge said. >> i think our forefathers intended that we use the first amendment so that we can speak what's on our mind, not to piss off other people and cultures, which is what you did. >> i'm a muslim. i find it offensive. i find what's on the other side of this very offensive. but you have that right. but you are way outside your bounds of first amendment rights. >> all right, the judge even said in muslim countries, you could get the death penalty for doing what he did. but this is america. >> yeah. >> i don't understand that. >> he missed the boat here. i get that he wanted to talk to the victim a little bit. >> people dress up as jesus all the time. >> sensitive, you know. but an attack is an attack is an attack. this happened in public at a parade. there were plenty of witnesses who saw this man who happened to

mary's county, through leonardtown, mechanicsville, la plata, awful these areas seeing some heavier rain its way through to the east. just be a little careful on the roads. we've got a little bit of light rain here just south of the d.c. area right now but it is gradually going to head out and we'll get at least a little bit of sunshine today. let's get back to our weather maps then and right now, it is 58 degrees at reagan national airport, 59 at dulles. 60degrees at bwi thurgood marshall airport. 59 at win chester. 60 at fredericksburg and we've got 53 degrees at annapolis. we are keeping a very close eye on this frontal system that is moving its way through so a little combination of things today. a few light showers this morning. nothing that is really accumulating very much. a few pockets of heavier rainfall and then we get some sunny breaks and after that, this afternoon, as this frontal system pulls through that, will set us up for thunderstorms. we have heat and humidity all building in ahead of the front. you kind of put this frontal system in the midst of that and it causes an

rainfall across parts of delmarva and southern maryland just edging its way through leonardtown, mechanicsville, la plata, indian head, still dealing with some of that. it will be out of the way very shortly and we'll get a few sunny breaks into the course of the affect. it is currently 5 # degrees at reagan national airport. 59 at dulles. 06degrees at bwi thurgood marshall airport. -- it is currently 58 degrees at reagan national airport. we have 5 the degrees at hagerstown. warm air moving in today and pulling our temperatures up to the 70s. we are talking 76 degrees for a high today. we're going to get a little bit of a break once these showers get out of the way. we'll see some sunshine and then this evening, we are looking at a chance of some isolated thunderstorms. we've got a cold front moving through. a little bit of instability in the atmosphere so keep your eyes to the sky. >> so if you are not stucken side working all day, you have to find that little window today on get out and enjoy it. >> let's say good morning to julie wright this morning with the latest on traffic. >> good morni

mechanicsville you'll be done in another 15, 20 minutes. and the temps before you go out this morning, grab the jacket. look hat the we're down in the low 40s north and still barely hanging on to 50 in washington. monika? >>> unincident a heads-up about on the inner loop of the beltway on the ramp to westbound i-66 and authorities are on the scene of this accident. it is blocking the left lane so be aware of that if you're heading north through annandale and want to exit on to 66. 66 is incident-free from manassas, centreville and fairfax. dulles toll road no problems out of leesburg. 270, here at old georgetown head road from frederick a few blake rights but -- brake lights but no big deals to report on 270 all the way down to the point where the lanes divide. the north side of down no problems on the beltway. a bit of volume now forming out of college park to silver spring. on the north side here at university boulevard as i said just slowing down bit through silver spring. coming up in my next report, we'll take another look around town

we are getting good snowfall rates reports from viewers like dana in me canticsville mare -- mechanicsvilleing down hard. >> charlotte lloyd in her honour done virginia said -- herndon virginia said it is coming down. >>> parts of the area could see several inches of snow, here is your 5 day forecast, cold tonight everything will freeze up and then start our warm up, nice by thursday highs near

and down to the south around shady side and diehl another pocket there around areas of mechanicsvillemoving east-southeast. calvert beach you're going to get wet before long again and right down to 29, culpepper and remington, again, pushing east toward i-17. so still a little bit of wetness hanging on, still going through the clouds and sunshine here for the next couple hours. 43 our temperature. it's after i think about 9:00 when we are going to really start to see the skies clear. precip should be ending about 7:30 or so. winds gusting to 25 miles per hour so a little breezy. allowing some of the temperatures to feel certainly a little colder. the wind chills i think later tonight before the wind really goes is going to be in the upper 20s. 34 degrees your 11:00 p.m. temperature. cold tomorrow morning at 5:00 and at 7:00 a.m. 29 to 30 degrees right there in d.c. for mount airy 24 to 25 degrees. leesburg 25 to 27. down south to fredericksburg. your future weather, there it is, the snow gone hanging on the higher spots west but for the most part clearing skies as we go into tomorrow