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now at 11 the snow is
coming down across the area.
The flakes started falling
nearly eight hours ago.
In some places like Elizabeth City
where this video is coming from
and the snow is not letting up.
We have live team coverage
from Elizabeth City to Hampton
and everywhere in between.
We'll check in with all
of our crews in a minute,
but we kick things off with our
chief meteorologist Geoff Lawson,
who's tracking where the heaviest snow.
Is falling right now Jeff
well, especially in areas to the
South shown this a couple of times,
but I like to keep showing it because
if you've been watching us you can
get an idea of how heavy the snow
is from the buildings downtown.
At one point you could see them
but they were a little fuzzy.
Now it is definitely hard to
see and that's because all of
this light snow that was white.
This lake very white colors what we
saw the first several hours and that
was just very very light precipitation.
Now it did start to stick and white
in the ground because it was so cold.
But now that.
Things are filling in with the blue color,
especially as we get medium
blue and darker blue.
That means even heavier areas of
snowfall and over just the last.
I think this is what 8:00 o'clock to 11:00.
This is a 3 hour loop.
You can see that there was a lot
more in the way of white out there.
Some pockets here and there,
but now a lot more of the
heavier precipitation.
A little bit lighter here in sort of
central areas of career tech in Camden.
There's heavy snow just north of you,
Southern Virginia Beach back through Moya,
then a little bit about where
it's a little bit.
Flight are still coming down
at a decent clip,
but not as heavy as it is from
popular branch down toward again
the Wright Brothers Memorial Bridge,
but zooming in around Mohawk over toward
creeds and up toward parts of Back Bay,
there's a very heavy band there,
not as much sort of Central
Virginia Beach at you know.
Again,
is you know decent light to moderate clip,
but then you get back here over Norfolk
and continue on up onto the peninsula.
Definitely a little bit heavier,
a little heavier out here to the West.
The bottom line is, it's snowing.
Really substantially,
and it's going to continue right now.
It's 27 feels like 13 degrees
with that northerly wind,
and that's the sustained wind.
It's gusting even higher right now.
Gusting up to 33 mph at
Norfolk International,
33 down in Manio as well.
20 in Chesapeake,
28 in Portsmouth.
So we're not talking right
near the coast anywhere.
That's even within 20 miles or
so is getting again a pretty
significant wind event right now.
Generally light amounts, you know,
maybe an inch or something off to the north.
Couple of spots,
tiny bit higher,
but most of our area is going to be
looking at 2:00 to 5:00 until you get
into South side in North Carolina and
there won't be a huge difference.
We're saying 4-5 is probably
the most common figure,
but I think there will be a few
spots that see six or seven.
In fact, we've had a report already.
Haven't confirmed it yet,
but four inches in at least one
area there of Curry Tuck County.
So it's going to get up to 7 at least
if that is indeed true,
and you can see why.
Because we still have all of these
blue areas to sweep up over us for
the next several hours as everything
continues to work its way again
off to the north and the East,
so we'll be back both Evan and
myself in just a few minutes
with a lot more on this storm,
Jeff, thank you looking live now
at the Virginia Beach oceanfront
from our Skyview Camera on 17th St.
You can see that blanket of snow out there.
Evan Watson spent the day in
Virginia Beach, joins us live,
now near Mount Trashmore.
Evan, I remember when you could
sled at Mount Trashmore.
How's it looking now?
Yeah, unfortunately sledding is
off limits at Mount Trashmore.
Park is closed tonight,
but a nearby down the
street over by Salem Rd.
I did catch a couple sweaters
earlier conditions.
At the moment it is just consistent,
consistent light.
Snow falls to the point where the
the footsteps that we made coming
out here for a live shot earlier
tonight starting to get covered up.
So you see just just
consistently around here.
Not only here in the
oceanfront up beer shore.
Dr Area across Virginia Beach
where we've been tonight.
The other thing you need to absolutely
remember is those road conditions.
They are slick.
They are difficult to drive on.
They're not something that I would
recommend if you need to go out,
please be very cautious and drive slow.
We didn't see one car kind of skid out
and crash into a curb earlier tonight,
but a lot of people very excited for
what it will look like in the morning.
Once all this snow has accumulated
wealth fund that might bring
when it comes to sledding,
snowball fights, snow, angels,
whatever you name it,
it's been fun talking to people
around Virginia Beach all today.
All right, Evan sure is pretty
coming down there. Thank you.
Virginia Beach leaders tell us
if you have any non emergency
safety concerns during the storm,
you can call 311 to report them to the city
first. Snowflakes fell in
northeastern North Carolina this
afternoon and they haven't stopped.
Eugene Daniel is live for us once
again in Elizabeth City and what's
it like out there still coming down?
Pretty heavy, Eugene.
Well, it's still coming down pretty heavily.
I'm not sure if this truck behind me
trying to give me a **** a show or not,
but it literally just did
a full 360 turn here.
It's it's trying to get its bearing.
Yeah, the snow is sticking to the ground.
You can see the streets are
wide at this point. Now.
I know North Carolina,
Department of Transportation and the
City of Elizabeth City crews treated
the roads and it's gonna be a long
night for some of those NCDOT crews.
They're planning to work up to 17
hours today as they don't expect
the snow to stop until the morning.
I also spoke with the Emergency
Management coordinator for the.
Area they had planned to set up
an emergency operation center
to assist with 911 calls.
However,
he says they don't think that's
going to be necessary.
There haven't been a lot of 911
EMS and fire calls and most
businesses here either closed
for the day or they closed early.
But again,
as you can see with that truck there,
if you are out in the road,
hopefully not many.
Tonight will still be on the road
drive safely.
Be cautious David Nicole,
right.
Thank you, Eugene.
Governor Roy Cooper says the North
Carolina National Guard is on
standby just in case conditions get.
Worse, in the Tar Heel state
to Chesapeake now and this photo of
Greenbriar Mall sent to us from Vera,
you can see the dusting of snow
covering the parking lot there.
Sarah Hammond spent the day in Chesapeake.
She's live there now.
So Sarah, what are you seeing?
I can tell it's very,
very cold and windy.
Yeah, Nicole, you're right,
the snow is really really picked up.
I'm sure you can hear the wind is
really whip and passed us out here.
We've been at the the Chesapeake City Park
all afternoon when we got here today.
If you want to take a look at the
ground Kevin behind the camera,
there was really nothing on the ground.
A little bit stuck to the grass and some of
the the trees and stuff when we got here,
but now we've been out here since
about three. 3:30 last I measured.
It was about 2 inches.
I have our 13 storm mode measuring stick
out here now. Let's see where we stand.
At this point in the grass here it
says about 3 inches and again that's
in the grass in this park that's
not out on the streets, however,
it is accumulating out there,
so like you've heard from VDOT,
you heard from other city officials.
Stay off those roads. It is icy.
They do have the plow trucks going
and the roads have been pretreated
but just stay home. If you have to.
'cause it is really coming down down
here for now. Live in Chesapeake.
Sarah Hammond 13 News now
Sarah. Thank you.
Chesapeake City leaders say
they have lifted tolls on the
Dominion Blvd Veterans Bridge.
And Chesapeake Expressway.
Because the road conditions are bad,
but if you don't have to
drive again, stay home.