Abouts last night they were overshadowed by more serious issue rocking the industry. Good day philadelphia at 5 00 a. M. Starts right new. Good morning, thanks so much for waking up early and joining us on this monday, january 8th, gangs all here, good morning to everybody. January 8th already. Yes. Where did the year go. We do have some School Closures and delays to tell but, already Atlantic City Public Schools shut down today they are closed. Margate City School District will operate on a two hour delay. Upper darby schools are dismissing early and maybe others will make that call later. You can see that crawl at bottom of the screen showing other schools juniata park has frozen pipes. We will have a complete list on our web site as well. Two things we necessity for sure bob kelly will be busy and sue serio as well because that wintry mix is moving in. Nothing had a chance to melt over weekend so shore towns that got more than a foot of snow is still all there, and, now we have warm
Temperature tonight goes above 32 degrees like it is currently in south jersey and delaware, you can still get some icing and thats the concern for the rest of our evening commute. Well talk about what we can expect, like wintry mix on the way ending from the northwest to southeast direction. It clears the coast by midnight. Any untreated surface will be slick, the driveways, the sidewalks and those secondary roads. But some good news is also headed our way. Heres future tracker6. You could see 3 oclock thursday afternoon, milder air rushing back across much of the eastern half of the u. S. By that time, its 45 in the city, 59 degrees in cincinnati and we have a bit of a january thaw on the way by later this week. More details coming up with the accuweather forecast, jim. Thank you melissa. Lets switch live to west chester and action News Reporter walter perez. Walter, whats the story there . Reporter well, jim, i mentioned during my last live shot that i almost fell on my backside get
So, zooming in on philadelphia right now, you can see this is generally freezing rain, little bit of sleet mixed in. Manayunk where weve got the hills could be a big problem. I95 its falling. Fortunately most of the major roads have been treated. The secondary roads definitely concerned. Its a little bit heavier in northeast philadelphia. Also through jenkintown and frankford. As we zoom in, its beginning to migrate east of the new jersey turnpike. Very slowly. Its very light but do notice out in the northwestern suburbs where they generally got the snow, that is shutting off right now and as far as the snow, the snow will really be ending. Its generally just the freezing rain and the rain. Sole,. So wilmington light freezing rain, salem new jersey also bridgeton. Its continuing to push to the east. So weve got Winter Weather advisories in effect until 9 oclock for essentially philadelphia, the northwest suburbs again allentown reading and lancaster its over for you but it will take lo
Look too bad now. They have been brined or salted, drivers making their way out after the icy commute yesterday. You see this pickup with the glaze on the windshield, also on the windows. The good news is its little bit warmer than it has been the past several days. Its not as bad in terms of when you have to run the defroster. And you can scrape it off a little bit easier than you would if it was still in the deep freeze situation. This driver here had already cleaned off the windows last night. That is good and convenient. You look at the roads here, this is one of the side streets off cottman. And you see that it doesnt look too bad. It is one of the situations where you have to watch for black ice. Some of the roads have not been treated. The sidewalk, this is what were talking about. You see the glaze from the ice. Untreated areas. One more thing, the temperature. Still under freezing. This is going to be a situation where it is not going to thaw just yet. At least not at this poi
Families having to spend that time at the airport, but then a pipe bursts sending three inches of water across terminal four and a hero cadet t. That is right. A Boston College jr. Saves lives during a terror attack in london. Well talk to them on tonights show. I am bill spadea, this is chasing news. Bill we have a weather areceiptor for you tonight. Another winter storm barrels down in the area. Freezing rain making the commute absolutley awful. We have team chaser coverage not only today but what is the commute going to look like tomorrow morning. Lets start with dan star in blow has all the details. Dan, what do you got . Dan well, bill, the weak storm system brought as you wintry mix. Little bit of snow, sleet, freezing rain. Was actually the freezing rain component that was most concerning that happens when the air temperature is just above freezing. It falls from the crowd and liquid rain and freezes on contact with the cold object like everything out there after our deepfreeze.