Meteorologist katie tell fehlinger keeping her eye on things. We have made tweets to our forecast as well. New updates as we speak we want to send right out to the Winter Weather advisory i mentioned just a moment ago. It is now going to be going into effect 8 00 p. M. Tonight for the southeastern half of our area it does include Philadelphia County and goes out towards some of hose outlying suburbs of the chester county, eastern montgomery, lower bucks and all points south and east essentially. Heres a shot. The snow is already here. Not so fast. Radar can be deceiving. Very dry air here at the surface much of this is not actually hitting the ground just yet. We still have several hours before that is going to start to happen but it is very cold outside. By comparisons certainly to what we saw yesterday below freezing in a lot of instances and at Philadelphia International airport currently 31. It sure beats what youve got out there though in chicago look at this 11 the current temper
Advisory from lower bucks, and points out south include New Castle County in delaware. And, until 6 00 oclock tomorrow morning and our current snow happen, coat to go 2 inches for points north and west. Could see two or 3 inches in central new jersey, south jersey and northern delaware where it intense ties just a bit. General 2 inches, plus or minus an inch or so is what we can expect from this. That could lead to some slick spots, for your friday morning commute. Coming up we will tell but another chance for snow for some this weekend. For now, back to you. Kate, thank you. Road crews have been doing their best to make tomorrow mornings commute go smooth thely as possible. Eyewitness News Reporter greg argos is live with that part of the coverage, greg. Reporter jessica, last night and this afternoon we saw roadways where those trucks brining the roadways raring them for snow. Here this is boro of bellmawr thinks the scene. These they plows are ready to go out this is roadways. Other
Truck brining a road in springfield township, montgomery county. So how much and when . We get answers from first alert meteorologist bill henley. I have no doubt that the crews will keep up with the light snow heading in this evening. Here is your time looip. During the day, cold and cloudy and dry through the afternoon. It is this evening when we start to see the first light snow arriving between 7 00 and 9 00. Just a few neighborhoods during that time. And then more widespread snow later in the evening and into early tomorrow morning. Overnight, expect accumulations of one to two inches. Maybe a couple of neighborhoods getting more than two but im not expecting more than that. And by first thing tomorrow morning before the rush gets underway, the snow will move off shore, off the jersey shore and out to sea and well be done with it. Right now plenty of clouds. The radar is picking up what looks like snow and that is snow up above the ground. By the time it reaches the ground, it is
Amounts of snow generally averaging around two inches, a little bit less to the north and the south. Theres also a chance of snow for parts of the area on saturday. Well talk about that storm, too a little bit later. Crews say theyre ready to role when the first flakes start falling. They were pretreating the roads early this afternoon. Thats where nbc Randy Gyllenhaal is live. This is the most snow of the season for most of the road crews. Reporter in the past hour or so, penn dot called in the reinforcement. Contractors will be helping out, making a total of 300 trucks salting the roads into the overnight hours. Its not going to be the biggest storm of the system, but its a good reminder for folks at home to start the snow and ice checklist. Ahead of the first real taste of winter, penn dot crews spent the past 24 hours brining local roads. When the first flakes start falling theyll issue a callout of 180 state trucks and 130 contractors on major state roads. Local contractors gettin
Taper off in reading, allentown and the poconos by 2 00 a. M. , 3 00 a. M. 5 00 a. M. , the only place well be seeing snow is towards the shore. By 7 00 a. M. , its dry out there. Because its so cold, and theres so little wind, that snows going to be there, just like this picture. On the side of the roads and on your sidewalk and your driveway and on top of your car. Theres the light snow, 7 00 to 9 00. Peak of the storm 11 00 p. M. To 3 00 a. M. Im expecting three inches on average. Three in some of the Higher Elevations, but it wont be snowing during the friday morning rush hour, which helps things. Philadelphia temperature is border line also. In the suburbs its going to be clearly cold enough to stick on untreated surfaces. Lehigh valley 26 degrees, 7 00 a. M. Just look, its over with. Even some sun peeking out in parts of the area by 7 00 a. M. Well also get into the saturday threat, which has more potential for other parts of the area. Thats in a few minutes. The Streets Departme