Wake up. See buses on the air early at
4:00 AM this Friday for a weather alert
from rain to ice and snow. Look at this.
The flash freeze crept in overnight while
you were sleeping that winter weather
blanketing central Ohio this morning.
Several of our Eastern counties
are under snow emergencies,
and you can see many of them
here as well in Central Ohio,
including Franklin, Delaware, Union County.
All those in yellow are under a level
one Pickaway County, the one in Orange.
You can see that is under a level 2 snow
emergency, so only drive if necessary.
We are updating this map as some of
these snow emergencies come in and
you can see all of that scrolling
at the bottom of your screen.
It has been a busy several hours
here at 10 TV.
Thanks for joining us for
this special edition.
A wake up see bus at 4:00 AM.
I'm Angela and Tracy is off.
We do have team coverage right
now of this weather alert.
Tina Ramos is in Delaware County,
Lacey Crisp along with our photographer,
Tim Flaherty.
They're driving around Franklin County.
And we,
of course have Gabby Garcia and Maddie
Kirker in the studio with me today
talking about what's happening in the
traffic center and the Weather Department.
So let's start there with Maddie right now,
because you predicted this and here it is.
But boy,
woke up this morning and said,
wow,
what happened?
Right. You know, here it is.
We've been talking about this since Monday,
believe it or not.
And yes, we did have rain last night.
Switched right over to snow.
And that is what you're seeing blanketing
the state of Ohio out there this morning.
We do have. Some heavy snowfall still
coming down in downtown Columbus.
That includes locations like Circleville,
Chillicothe, London,
Delaware, Marysville.
And we're just going to watch as these
snowfall totals continue to climb as
we go through the rest of this morning.
Now little bit closer for you as you can see,
especially across the metro of Columbus,
we've got some heavy snowfall right now,
this band of heavy snow basically
moving from West to east and we do
anticipate the snow to stick around
at least for the next several hours.
Not to mention that that wind is increasing.
So this snow that falls this morning
will lead to blowing snow as we
progress through the morning.
So here's
a look at our hour by hour forecast. This
is as we go through about 5:00 AM,
the heaviest of the snowfall still in our
area but making its way towards the east.
You can see out towards Newark,
Zanesville, New Lexington also.
Can you see these numbers here?
Temperatures will be dropping to the
single digits as we go through later on
this morning and that snow continues
to creep on off to the north become.
Being a little bit more,
less as we go through the later
part of this morning,
how about the wind chill forecast?
This is a look at what it's gonna
feel like outside at 9:00 AM don't
even worry about the dealing with the
snow out there today because it's
going to be so dangerously cold too.
We're looking at feeling more like -,
28 by 9 AM -,
23 by 5:00 PM and this extreme cold will
continue as we head into our Saturday.
This is a look at our forecast today.
You would.
Think we live in the North Pole, but no,
we're right here in central Ohio.
It is going to be dangerously cold
out there for the next few hours all
the way through the rest of the day.
Today you can see 5 degrees,
but we're falling this morning,
dropping down to about -,
3 as we go through about 10:00 o'clock.
I do think we'll climb up to
maybe 3 degrees by later on today,
but we will have that wind howling
40 to 50 mph as a snow will be
coming to an end for this morning,
so even with the snow. Ending.
We are not done with this winter storm.
We will have more of this forecast
coming up in just a few minutes.
Angela.
Alright, Maddie, thank you.
We do have some breaking news
right now on the highway.
We are getting reports of
several jackknife semi trucks.
This is one that one of our crews
just drove by this morning and you
can see right there off to the side,
a lot of police activity.
Let's get over to Gabby Garcia right
now where we are mapping this out.
Yeah, good morning.
Thankfully on the West side there that
Jack Knife semi completely cleared.
I literally just got off the phone with CPD.
Just a couple of minutes ago,
but not clear, is another situation on the
different end of Franklin County here.
That's on the South side of Franklin County.
Deputies from the Sheriff's Office here
on the scene where this ramp is closed.
High Street northbound to get
eastbound on 270. That is shut down.
A vehicle is stuck there.
Like I anticipate more vehicles
being stuck throughout the morning.
So what you want to do instead if
you have to be on the roadway,
you need to get northbound on High
Street to get on the outer belt.
Go westbound on 270 instead.
Use I71 to flip you around and
get you back east.
Down on I-270 if that's where you
need to go on the South side today.
Taking a look there on the South side,
I pulled up that camera where that
scene is barely anything visible.
All you can see are lights this
morning and you see those flashing
lights probably from emergency crews
and or a snow plow this morning.
And Speaking of snow plows,
there are about 200 of those O
dot crews out there right now.
I just saw a tweet from O dot this morning.
They say they've got 200 crews
and you see why.
Take a look at I71 at
Gemini place completely,
basically blanketed in snow.
There near the Polaris mall there on
the north side, 3:15 at Lane Ave.
near campus,
also very heavily snow covered and
you see that snow blowing making
visibility difficult for you guys.
I'd stay home if you can work
from home today,
absolutely.
Gabby is certainly not a fun Friday.
We're just getting bored as well.
Fayette County now under
a Level 2 snow emergency.
So certainly those conditions
are changing out there.
Lacey Crisp is joining us here on wake up,
keep us this morning.
She's witnessing some of those conditions
changing there in Franklin County.
Lacey, you're driving around with our.
Photographer Tim Flaherty behind
the wheel give us a sense of
what it feels like right now for
anyone who's about to head out.
Well, good early morning, Angela.
We are in Hilliard.
We're right on Cemetery Rd.
We're about to go over 270.
We're following Hilliard tandem
clouds they said they've been out
since about 11:00 o'clock last night.
Trying to keep the roads
as clear as possible.
We drove by that Jackknife 70 was on 70
eastbound just east of Hilliard, Rome.
That obviously blocked up that traffic in
the freeway there for quite some time.
But as Gabby had mentioned,
it has cleared but it.
That just gives you an idea about how
the road conditions are to see that
semi jackknife like that and we have
seen a couple of cars in the ditch
along the Interstate since we've
been driving around obviously is you
can take a look at some of this video,
you can see those slick spots on the road,
so there's clearly ice underneath
the snow when you're driving.
So just be aware that even though
the plows are out and and they've
been trying to keep up with salting
the roads as much as possible,
there is still ice underneath the.
You know,
but the issue really isn't this snow
that's fallen so much as the wind.
And you can see it in following these clouds.
They got there blowing the snow
right back after the plows that
tried to clear the roads.
And we've seen a lot of crews out,
they're trying their best to try to
keep up with the current conditions.
But what happens is they'll go buy it,
they'll clear the road and,
you know, 20 seconds later there's
no blown right back into that spot.
So, you know,
it's really tough for these crews.
They're out here.
They're trying their best.
They make sure the roads are
as clear as possible.
Like I said, it's it's not the accumulation,
but it's it's the wind,
the, gosh,
it's blowing the snow right back into place.
So that's what I've looked at,
what the road conditions are like.
Thank you,
Angie.
All right, Lacey, definitely great
perspective there for us. Thank you.
Let's give you another view here because
we have Tina Ramos is in Delaware
County for us with a good look at US 23.
Know you are holding on to that hat.
I tell you, it's really windy out here.
The feel like temperature at this point is -,
15 degrees here because these
gusts of the winds, you know,
you probably just saw that light
behind me that was an ODOT truck
here trying to hit Route 23 here.
We're just a little South of downtown
Delaware, but as Lacey had mentioned,
the snow was packed on top of
what is probably ice down there.
But let me take you up to
the lights there as well.
It's just a cloud of blowing snow
that is limiting visibility to
about 1/4 mile at the very most.
Let me take you into Delaware.
Downtown Delaware,
we hit up a little bit earlier this morning.
This was probably just around
1:00 o'clock already.
The snow was on the ground.
It was the changeover coming up.
At that point,
some of the plows were already round,
just out,
rather just trying to hit the streets up,
which really was a difficult time here.
But now that the winds have picked up,
that's what's making it even worse in
terms of traveling around and especially
for those high profile vehicles.
I want to bring you back
here too if I can live,
because the thing about this,
even though we didn't get a ton of snow,
even though it's snowing still right now.
It's the blowing and drifting
that we're dealing with here.
And look at that even probably
only got about an inch,
maybe an inch and 1/2.
But already I'm probably going
down about 6 inches in this
drift that we have right here.
Nothing major.
But be very careful as you're
heading out there because this
blowing and drifting and especially
the bitter cold really bites you.
So stay in if you can.
Obviously,
we're going to say that
to you all morning long.
We'll have more throughout the
morning in Delaware County.
Tino Ramos,
10 TV news.
Thank you. We really appreciate you standing
out there in those weather elements.
Show people what it's like out there.
So let's get back to Maddie Kirker right now,
because Maddie, we are certainly
looking at treacherous conditions
out there as this system continues to
kind of develop here this morning.
You gotta feel for Tina right now because
yes, just like he was mentioning,
those wind chills currently are extremely
dangerous already and it's only going
to get colder as the day progresses.
Yeah, it's only going to get colder.
This is what it feels like
outside right now this morning -,
15 in Columbus -, 23 in London, negative.
19 in Marion, Newark -.
14 some of the warmer spots that have
yet to see this cold blast just yet.
We're still holding on to five and
Mcconnellsville and Coshocton at 14,
but it's headed in your direction as well.
Let's get another look here at
the satellite and radar picture.
All of that blue on your screen is
snowfall and we do have another
burst of heavy snow that is moving
into downtown Columbus right now.
As we zoom in closer,
you can see right around the
metro area from Gahanna.
The Hilliard to Dublin,
to Powell, Westerville,
Grove City,
we're seeing that heavy snowfall
continuing to move in from West to east.
So we'll get more additional snowfall on top
of what else is already out there right now.
Let's slide to the north.
You can see up towards Marion,
we're seeing some heavy snowfall as well.
Marysville,
Bellfountain,
Kenton seeing some of that heavy
snowfall and that band of snow
for in Delaware that's currently
sitting there actually making its
way towards Newark and Mount Vernon.
Yeah, as we head through the next 15 minutes,
let's also slide down with our
friends here to the South and E you
can see from Laurel to Lancaster,
Circleville,
Chillicothe just getting down with
some bursts of heavy snowfall.
Nelsonville also down towards Athens
also seeing some of that heavier snow.
Now this snow will continue for
the next couple of hours.
It is not going to snow all day
as we wind the view here.
You can see the rain moving
through Pittsburgh,
this end of the snow actually coming
to an end down towards Cincinnati,
so as the snow does.
Come to an end later this morning.
We will still deal with it though,
because we've got these very cold conditions,
so the snow is not going to be melting
and it will just be blowing around
as well with those winds increasing.
We've got more of your forecasts
coming up with another check of the
snowfall in your forecast coming
up in just a few.