western maryland has been dealing with some wintry conditions.ill see some snow not only tonight but for the day tomorrow as we continue to monitor the progress of a weather disturbance over the ohio valley that still has the swing through our area. it will not pull away until sometime tomorrow evening. another 24 hours of this chilly spring weather pattern. the normal high temperature at 60 degrees, and we fell short of that by 12 officially at bwi marshall. the record high was 88 degrees in 1978. we may see temperatures try and get into the 80's here early next week as a warm front makes its way through, but that is a few days away. temperatures continue on the chilly side of around the region. 46 at hagerstown, and you would think it would get warmer as you head south, but it is not much warmer there. we will see a clearing trend overnight. western maryland still in the rain and snow showers right into saturday morning. the wins have been brisk throughout the day but will diminish to about 5-15 miles an hour. as the nor'easter pulls away, ther

some rain and snow showers will continue in the western maryland mountains.nywhere from 31 to 38 for the low around here. wins should diminish to --winds should diminish to five-50 miles an hour. as the storm moves away, another one will rapidly be moving in behind it. another round of rain and snow showers will cut across the region tomorrow afternoon. light accumulations possible in the mountains, especially above 2008. mostly this scattered rain showers for our region. a little sunshine on sunday, it will probably be the best day of the weekend for outdoor activities. more rain is moving in to the north of baltimore sunday night. this is a better scenario because the showers are developing and had a warm front which will head for new england. right now the timing looks perfect for baseball here on monday, with the warm front moving into new england and the skies clearing. we are forecasting temperatures may be even in eight's in some parts of the mid atlantic on monday. winds will increase during the afternoon, and a small craft advisory is in effect. the

there will be snow in western maryland. some of that activity could crop in the baltimore area, very limited but in will be around. on saturday afternoon i think we'll see a bit of an improvement though a few showers will be possible. sunday looks dry, i'm happy to say, partly to mostly sunny and jmly dry. it brings back the chance for showers but much warmer monday and tuesday for the first game. 35, mostly cloudy, breezy, chance of a few showers, early in the morning towards daybreak could be snow showers. saturday 35 with lingering clouds. take a look at the overall trend here. as we look ahead to the weekend. it will be breezy, sunday looks better. we wish we could have sunday's weather on monday. monday looks warmer but the possibility of rain, hopefully not a rain out and then the chance of a thunderstorm even on tuesday, so it's not perfect weather to start the orioles season, but at least this will be warmer. >> that's all that counts. if we have tuesday's weather -- >> it's cold and miserable. >> you know what, spe

we're seeing some rape out there, maybe even a few flakes beginning to fly again out into western maryland. just the way we want to bring in april at midnight. take a look at this, maryland's most powerful radar, take you out a little farther east, showers down through easton, back towards centreville. rain showers toward the eastern shore here now. some more heavier showers that will cross through the bay and the kept island and narrows area. i want to also show you this. there are some significant snow showers out toward western maryland. some of that cold air may mix in enough to bring up snow showers. temperatures in the 30s north and west. 40s around the mode baltimore area, but cold enough to see a few flakes fly overnight. but quickly in the morning tomorrow, this will go back to rain. talk about the weekend forecast, look towards the o's opener straight ahead. >>> new at 11:00 tonight a jewelry store in the columbia mall robbed at gunpoint. now police are searching for suspects. mall surveillance cameras took these pictures of the suspects. according to howard county police three m

closer to freezing, in fact 28 in oakland in far western maryland right now. here's our satellite combination of everything moving on. this is all snow up here in parts of new england and in parts of pennsylvania. here where the heaviest rain ends, it's all moving east. but we have a couple more hours of this, then we get out from under the worst of it. lousy travel conditions in new england today. high pressure eventually comes in, but there is more stuff out to the west that will be spinning around. so any break we get in the weather this weekend will be short-lived. >> we have rain this morning, the most significant tapers off. then we might have some spotty rain activity. a little warmer than yesterday. northwest winds will get breezy. insta-weather future cast shows any rain we have left over this afternoon and into the evening hours. as you start to clear overnight tonight, then during tomorrow we have rain chances that might pop up in the area. kind of spotty. i think most of the day will be dry. then in the evening we have another chance for rain showe

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still in the 30's at parkton and westminster and western maryland, to. oakland is 20 degrees at the noon hour. you can see a swirl of the clouds here. this is the low pressure center. the eye of the storm, so to speak. biggest is now -- biggest snows under our banner. this whole storm is spinning to the northeast, eventually pulling out of our area. we're still kind of under its influence. this is the snow and rain spinning around behind the storm. there are elements of energy behind a system that will keep us under right through tomorrow. there is a distance out to the west we will have to deal with. it does not stick to its outp -- itis not straigh and doesn't restrict itself out for a while. the basic weather story -- a lot of that will be no. at the pennsylvania line. there may be a few breaks for sunshine here and there. 47-52 for the high. northwest winds gusting as much as 27 miles an hour. insta-weather futurecast shows a little speck of activity this afternoon and evening -- sprinkle activity this afternoon and evening. more of these disturbance

there are wintry showers in western maryland, southwestern pennsylvania. we had snow on the ground in much of the state, including carroll county. i think it could happen tonight although less numerous showers. we'll see a few raindrops and maybe a few flakes flie. i know that's not what you want to hear. temperatures around 50. we go through the 40s with a few showers possible. tomorrow morning there could be a couple of early flaidges mixing in with the rain showers. the rest of the day we do warm it up. we keep the chance through most of the day. talk about your sunday and look ahead towards the orioles opener straight ahead. >>> the latest on the condition of hall of famer brooks robbins. he's still mat gbmc. he is being treated for an infection. doctors say he is responding well to antibiotics. the hospital has been flooded with phone calls from fanals. they are asking those who want to pass along emails, they will be forwarded to the robinson family. brooks turns 74 next month. >> tonight former governor william schaefer is in the hospital with pneum

we look at the other temperatures, western maryland 30 degrees, and it is near 40 on the eastern shore. the view from space, showing the rain from a developing area of low pressure. deepening near long island. new england will get hit with heavy snow, flight delays out of boston and maine. maybe a few sprinkles this morning, strong winds, and we may have sun trying to break out, near 50. changes on the way. how is traffic now. jerry? >> we are loading up on interstate 66, both directions for that matter. eastbound, toward the beltway, westbound, out toward fair oaks or centerville. no accidents. be careful. over in greenville. on the beltway, coming up from greenville, college park. one more sampling. over at the key bridge, from the district side. out on the rails, metro, vre and marc, no delays. >> a police chase ended in a crash in the district. police say they chased suspects connected to an armed robbery from maryland into the district. police arrested one suspect. another ran away. >>> police are investigating an overnight shooting, 12:15, a man walked into united medical with a

freezing in far western maryland right now. this is a big nor'easter that's cranking up.getting the quiet side of the storm. it's snowing in new england and the snow reaches all the way down to northeast pennsylvania and near the pennsylvania-maryland line as well. strange storm. the weather is really awful once you move up to new england with this storm. we'll see the south edge of this is pulling away from us, although we'll be in the back wash for the storm today, so it doesn't get rid of the rain chances. then once the storm pulls away for a while, we'll be dry. so today rain this morning that will taper off and then we might see a little isolated shower or two this afternoon and turning much more scatter. then we get sun breaks. insta-weather future cast shows the rain combination we're having right now. even though we tried to break the clouds up, we do see a couple of areas of spotty conditions. we widen things up on saturday. a couple of areas of showers could pass across the area during the afternoon tomorrow. doesn't look -- sunday night we could see a passing s

to a little bit of light snow up to the north and west in those favored neighborhoods up to western marylandnorthern sections of maryland right up into southern sections of pennsylvania. nothing like that, though, right now. temperature is 41 degrees. there's a lot of moisture in the air, so temperatures are having a hard time dropping tonight. we're pretty much right where we've been all day long, high temperature day for national, 19 degrees below where we should be. it was only 42 for a high today. 39 for frederick now and then you can see back out to the north and west hagerstown, winchester, martinsville all in the upper 30s. so for tonight down to 37. it's going to be kind of cold and rainy and raw. up into frederick and winchester and then parts north and west, that's where you might have that chance to get in on a little bit of a changeover, a little bit of a mixing there, but again i don't anticipate any problems on the roads tomorrow morning, anything like that. as a matter of fact, i don't even think you'll wake up tomorrow morning and see any hint that there may have been a littl

the marcella shale formation underlines the county and part of allegheny county in maryland in the far western part of the state, and in movies to counties gas companies have released the gas rates are more than 100,000 acres. we're just beginning to enter into this. we currently have applications from two companies for a total of five wells. we are very mindful of the tremendous benefits that could accrue to the abandoned and the economy by exporting and exploiting these gas reserves but we are equally alert to the risks of adverse public health and environmental effects. our paramount concern is protecting public health, the environment and the ground and surface water quality. we are proceeding cautiously and deliberately and do not intend to allow drilling and fracking and marcel shalem maryland until these issues aren't resolved to our satisfaction. there's numerous issues we've heard a lot about those already. some of the things we are particularly concerned about the act of sustainability of the surface water and ground water and the regions the supply fracking, the minimum requirements

the marcella shale formation underlines the county and part of allegheny county in maryland in the far western part of the state, and in movies to counties gas companies have released the gas rates are more than 100,000 acres. we're just beginning to enter into this. we currently have applications from two companies for a total of five wells. we are very mindful of the tremendous benefits that could accrue to the abandoned and the economy by exporting and exploiting these gas reserves but we are equally alert to the risks of adverse public health and environmental effects. our paramount concern is protecting public health, the environment and the ground and surface water quality. we are proceeding cautiously and deliberately and do not intend to allow drilling and fracking and marcel shalem maryland until these issues aren't resolved to our satisfaction. there's numerous issues we've heard a lot about those already. some of the things we are particularly concerned about the act of sustainability of the surface water and ground water and the regions the supply fracking, the minimum requirements

western edge of this precipitation is getting cold. there is some snow mixing in out to our west. some of the snow showers we see out there will also follow east of the mounds into central maryland it tomorrow morning. do not be surprised if you see wet snow tomorrow morning early on with chilly temperatures to start the day. only a few 100th of an inch officially at the rain gauges at the airport and the inner harbor. the last day of march, the normal high is 59. today we struggleto hit 50 -- 43 at the airport. back into the mountains where the -- where we are below freezing already, and some cold spots out for the -- out west could have some accumulation. some snow in the northwest suburbs. that could sneak into the western parts of howard county as well. north and west where it gets a little colder, the possibility of wet snow tomorrow morning. a rain/snow meeting tomorrow morning early on and sunrise at 6:51 a.m. with brisk winds at the northeast. winter storm warnings and snow possible as the storm is welling up the eastern seaboard. it is producing thunderstorms and parts of florida right now the carolinas will move north as chilly air comes in over the weekend. it is not

the marcella shale formation underlines the county and part of allegheny county in maryland in the far western part of the state, and in movies to counties gas companies have released the gas rates are more than 100,000 acres. we're just beginning to enter into this. we currently have applications from two companies for a total of five wells. we are very mindful of the tremendous benits that could accrue to the abandoned and the economy by exporting and exploiting these gas reserves but we are equally alert to the risks of adverse public health and environmental effects. our paramount concern is protecting public health, the environment and the ground and surface water quality. were proceeding cautiously and deliberately and do not intend to allow drilling and fracking and marcel shalem maryland until these issues aren't resolved to our satisfaction. there's numerous issues we've heard a lot about those already. some of the things we are particularly concerned about the act of sustainability of the surface water and ground water and the regions the supply fracking, the minimum requirements for

maryland punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. >> it's too close to uncomfort for most california's. it should be in a western, not main street california. >> often the open carry protests prompt concerned citizens to call police who say the gathering drain their already-stretched departments. >> a gun in a public setting has to be viewed by a police officer as a threat. and as such, it takes our resources away it deal with that threat. >> but open carry supporters say the ban is unconstitutional, pointing out the second amendment gives them the right to bear arms to protect themselves. >> it is critical during states of emergency that people have the ability to defend themselves when police are not available. >> nicole said she needs a gun to protect herself because attack rates on transgender people are high. >> 911, get you police in minutes and in the meantime you are dead or beaten. >> the proposal heads to the appropriations committee next. a similar proposal last year cleared several committees but failed to get to governor schwarzenegger's desk by the deadline. abc7 news. >>> this weekend family and f

department of environment -- bob summers, acting secretary for maryland and's department of environment. in these two counties in the western part of our state gas companies -- gas rates of more than 100,000 acres. we are just beginning to enter into this. we currently have applications from two companies for a total of five wells. we are very mindful of the tremendous benefits that could accrue to the environment and economy by exploring and exploiting these gas reserves, but we are equally alert to the risks of adverse public health and environmental effects. our paramount concern is protecting public health, the environment, and are ground and surface water quality. we are proceeding cautiously and deliberately and not intended to allow drilling and fracking in the marcellus shale in maryland until the issues are resolved to our satisfaction. there are numerous issues. we heard a lot about those already. some of the things we are particularly concerned about, adequacy and sustainability of surface water and ground water in the regions that supply fracking, minimum requirements for constructing, casing, and cementing well