We can maintain that for three hours, we have a full pledge blizzard on our hands, thats whether we declare these type every situations blizzards, windchill alerts are out already. This is another story to the storm, because windchills will be as low, watch this, as low as 24 degrees below zero in the poconos here in town, as low as three to 5 degrees below zero. It is dangerous windchills, it is blowing and drifting snow. It is even coastal flooding concerns through the morning, into the afternoon. Lots of weather to talk about coming up. Take a live look, just light snow falling here in center city, we send it back inside to you, sue . Yes, and here is the map, mike, that everybody wants to see. How much are we going to get . So our best predictions as of this morning where the blizzards warning is in effect, six to 10 inches, couple of spots may get more, four to 6 inches along the infamous i95 corridor, then to the north and west, you get less and less amounts of snow, two to 4 inc
Temperatures in the 90s, heat wave number three so far we have 21 days of temperatures in the 90s, right now 91 in philadelphia 90 in wilmington and millville. 84 in allentown, you have to go to the mountains for relief 78 degrees, down the shore are you getting a land breeze, temperatures are in the upper 80s and really down the shore this is where we have the highest humidity philadelphia and areas north its pretty dry air with dew points in the 50s, it doesnt add any to the feels like temperature it feels like the air temperature however dover the dew point is 71 degrees and a humid air mass and along the shore dew points in the 60s, more humid there and drier air is moving in in the overnight hours behind a cold front, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we are dry across our region if you look down to washington d. C. , we are seeing storms popping up and moving to the east that could clip southern delaware and the southern tip of new jersey later on this evening. This is what
Expressway, very busy all the time, that will be entirely shut down all the way from conshohocken at the blue route, all the way south into 95. No traffic on the schuylkill, going westbound, it will be shut down from 95 all the way up to u. S. One. Lets talk about u. S. One really quick, that will be shut down in the west philly section from lancaster over to belmont, that is the area where the pope will be staying overnight, so that busy city avenue section will also be shut down. Ben franklin bridge will be entirely closed. Officials confirming that for the first time today. That will allow pedestrians to walk across from new jersey into center city and walk over to see the pope at the world meeting of families events. There is one rumor that was spreading around that i95 would shut down. Theyre telling us no, not at all. 95 will remain open entirely, there may be some exits and onramps that are completely closed. Lets take a look at penndot from a few minutes ago. These road closure
To effectively move emergency vehicles as well as a large number of buses that are expected. Lets talk about bridges, the ben franklin bridge is going to be shut down from new jersey into philadelphia. This is the first time officials have confirmed that for us. This will allow people to literally from new jersey walk across the bridge on the road into center city to see the pope, and lets hear from the drpa from a few minutes ago. The bridge will be closed to all vehicles except for emergency vehicles. And we will use it to allow pedestrians to cross into philadelphia from new jersey and back. Real quick, the walt whitman bridge will remain open. That will allow people to get from 95 into new jersey and back. As for when this all gets back to normal back to open again. It could take until monday by noontime. Live at city hall Randy Gyllenhaal nbc10. Our Team Coverage continues now with nbc10s george spencer. A lot of the popes events are in center city philadelphia. The street closure
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