parkersburg at 25.a little wind, all that there is light wind it will knock the numbers to teen and the singing digit. we are at 29 with the wind chill factor. charlottesville is 30 degrees. layer up tonight but this is one of the warmer nights for the extended forecast we see a sliver of blue. watch through the night. to this around 4:00. if you see this batch of blue it's a small weather system and slight chance meteorologically speaking nothing at all. it will last a few hours and scoot out of here. by 10:00 in the morning it's for the most part long gone. i expect little if any snowfall. the fact we are below freezing and meaning even the latest amount will stick to the road. then it is gone. highs, stretch of maybe freezing by friday with the the greatest chance comes in saturday >>> even beyond the seven-day is a bitter start to 2018. be ready to do that. if you have not covered up the hose bins or spigots do it. have the winter weather gear ready. you are watching "abc7 n "what if" more of the ca

are right now, not expecting a big cool down from where we are currently. 52 in huntington, 42 parkersburg. ofund the region, a couple clouds, but what a nice day it was today. hope that you enjoyed it. very drive for the travel. be there until tomorrow night. what we are watching tomorrow is a dry day. clouds increase and tomorrow evening you will see the clouds thicken. the next weather maker will work into the region tomorrow night. heading out, the timing on this may be slightly earlier, 9:00 p.m. until 11 p.m. timeframe, and then for the most part it rains through the overnight. saturday morning, likely have rain. midmorning break saturday before the clouds for lynn saturday afternoon. -- before the clouds fill in saturday afternoon. it will be raining saturday, but not worried about snow. we may pick up a moderate amount of rain in spots. this clears out by saturday night. run this from friday night through saturday night, we pick up off to the west. there will be much more the mountains. 60king ahead to the weekend, degrees, 46 christmas eve. christmas eve night into early christmas

john: well, you'd go to parkersburg, west virginia.ry of the creation of the physical representation of the trust fund is a very interesting one. throughout the 1980's and early 1990's, the social security system, because of the growing economy, developed about $1 trillion in surplus funds that was allegedly sitting in this account. members of congress would go back to their districts for their town meetings and people would ask, if there's $1 trillion there in the social security trust fund, where is that trust fund? the members didn't know because there wasn't one. it was just a ledger in the treasury department book. so they came back to washington demanding that their leaders do something. there is a very ingenious congressman, a democrat from indiana, and he had the terrific idea to create a physical representation of the trust fund. they passed a bill that would designate a public building as the location of the social security trust fund. brian: is this a joke? john: no, this is the honest to god truth. in 1994 the bill passed,

we have not had a day that was colder than that when we measure the high temperature. 16 in parkersburg. it's 14 up around pittsburgh. harrisburg. a lot of "burg" on the map. the wind chill factor, and the winds are not that strong but it does knock the number down in d.c. to 12. it feels like 7 in philly. ocean city at 9 degrees. virginia beach is 16 with the feels like temperature. other than that, i mean it's by far the big weather story. this is what we are talking about how cold it will get. the future cast showing a few clouds working through the overnight time frame. but any snow stays well north. i'm not concerned about that. like today a lot of sunshine to go around. gorgeous day from inside looking out. it's a little bit warmer but still a cold day. well below the normal in the mid-40's for the time of year. by tomorrow night at 11:00 tomorrow night, you can see that there will be some of the snow. that is what the blue indicates. ohio, west virginia, some of that. some will likely, potentially, bordering likely make the way to the area late tomorrow night to the first part of

it's cool. 41 around danville. 14 in columbus. 18 in parkersburg. if you add the wind chill. again. the winds not strong. pittsburgh right now minus 1 reading. 19-degree temperature in the beltway bottom line it's a bitter cold day. it's not just a one day event. this going to last. not much going on, on the satellite radar. flight flurries. that is it. run you through the evening. layer up. we are bitter cold in the morning but in the day i will see it as mostly sunny sky and if not straight sunny for a great majority of the day. if you are traveling, temperatures are not above freezing for the peak heating of the day. the temperatures will drop to the teens. there are mostly in teens or upper single digits. but about 19 for the low. warming up to a whopping or 28, somewhere in there. it's on the cold side. not a record. the record for the coldest high temperatures on the day generally in the teens. so we are well above that. but still 27 degrees by any stretch, any measure for the area is way, way down there. even for the mid-januaries and early february. 44 is the nowhere hall hi