Going up right behind me. Now, how many people will come out to brave those frigid temperatures is anyones guess but as we saw today the cold wasnt letting many stop them from enjoying one of their final days of their holiday. Even though the deep freeze and continues for yet another day, many are still heading outdoors. The rothman rink in center city was packed with bundled up skaters this afternoon. The canuck family came from yardley to cure their cabin fever. We were cooped up all week. We figured out we would come out burn off some energy have some fun and enjoy philly. Reporter how you staying warm buddy. Trying to get more layers on. Reporter like how many layers do you think you have on. Three. Reporter at the Christmas Village snack tent the subfreezing temperatures mean. More hot chocolating hot cider coffee and tea. Reporter lined the counter the staff keeps warm by jockeying for time next to the heater. Ive been pushing him to the side for the last five times. Reporter mea
Lot of people head back to work, a lot of kids heading back to school, the wind chill will make it feel like 2 degrees below zero in philadelphia, it stays cold on wednesday. But it eases. Everythings relative. Wind chill wednesday morning 11 degrees. But then im tracking a noreaster developing on thursday. A big question where does it track and that has a big impact on how much snow we would see. Ill have details on that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Rick. All right, cecily well check back in later. Thank you. Chopper6 flew over the 2018 mummers parade as the performers marched from Philadelphia City hall down broad street. But it appears the frigid forecast kept some of the fans away. There were sparse crowds along the parade route today and those who did show up were bundled up tight. Action News Reporter bob brooks has reaction from the spectators who did brave the cold on this new years day 2018 and he joins us live in center city tonight. Hey, bob. Reporter hey, ric
Week. We look at the winter storm warnings and they extend to florida to the carolinas and they dont go far inland just the coastal communities not included philadelphia. If you want a major noreaster you need to see these inland. The mainly along the coast. It begins wednesday night at the shore and then works its way inland thursday morning. Thursday morning is rush hour and despite not a major storm still creating very slick travel on thursday mornings rush hour with the hardest hit area southeastern new jersey and tapers off thursday afternoon. Well show you a closer look with future tracker and how much snow with this storm and the brutal numbers friday and saturday coming up in just a bit. Adam, thank you. All the cold weather is causing a lot of problems with infrastructure in the area. Chopper 6 hd was overhead as the water gusts from the large water main break in conshohocken and flooded nearby businesses and impacting houses in towns. Walter perez is live at the scene this af
Bring something snow to parts of northern florida, southern georgia and it moves right up off the coast bringing us snow by thursday morning. Big problem with the timing for the thursday morning commute. And the center. The storm is 250 miles off the coast. What this mean the most pronounced effect is along the coast. We have winter storm watching right up the eastern seaboard including all of our counties right along the coast. This is where i expect the highest snow amounts. As far as the timing, the noreaster the snow begins Late Wednesday night probably around 10 00 11 00 and the highest impact will be the thursday morning rush. The hardest hit eastern new jersey, all over thursday afternoon and then we are dealing with some biting winds and talk more about that and the snowfall amounts coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you. With the extreme cold tends to make water pipes burst. The 30 inch water main break in West Conshohocken is causing widespread problems in part
Crews are expecting the roads to be snow covered ahead of the high winds and asking people to drive to stay off the roads tomorrow. They talk about the plans for the storm. Seni sara bloomquist spoke with residents. And first lets head to cecily tynan and adam joseph. They are watching the noreaster since it developed in the Weather Center and the latest on the warnings. We were watching it way before it developed. And its a two part system. The extreme dangerous cold that comes after the snow ill be diving into. Lets head over to the action news Weather Center i want to show you the system exploding off the coast they have know in northern florida and georgia can and the carolinas. And the center of the low is tucked in closer to the coast. The track has shifted about 50 miles west. Which really isnt a shift. And its all track dependant and it has an impact on the snow total, a lot of Winter Weather alerts. First of all we have blizzard warnings, posted along the coast. And its not re