And im dray clark. The good news, the eagles won. The bad news we remain in a first alert because of the bitter cold. To our first alert neighborhood weather and krystal klei to find out how long this cold blast will last. Krystal . I think it would be 50 below today and no one would care. The eagles won last night and were in a good mood. The entire area is still under the first alert through 9 00 a. M. This morning. Well keep it through to hit that morning low point which typically is seven to eight at the latest and then we will see temperatures climb just a smidge but throughout the next few hours single digits. Wind chills, biting cold air and winds that really smack you in the face. They hit me as i was walking in the building earlier. Stay indoors for the morning hours, youll be better off. 15 in philadelphia. 12 in coatesville and blue bell. 17 for the temperature in wildwood. Those are the actual temperatures. Now lets turn over to what it feels like outside. 1 below in philly
For this to move in. In fact, most areas will not see that steady accumulating snow until tonight. But there will be some snow showers around to start with. Certainly cold enough for it in the suburbs and the lee high valley. 20s right now. 20s in new jersey. Weve got a warmup before the snow moves into the rest of the area. 38 degrees this afternoon in philadelphia. 40 degrees in new jersey, and up to 41 degrees in delaware. So big differences neighborhood by neighborhood. Ill take you through it hour by hour when i come back in a few minutes, but first Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Updates on the ram as around the schuylkill express street. It looks like the eastbound delay has really thinned out. But now with this accident scene over to the shoulder the offramp has cleared out of the way, but now its that backup into south philly. You dont want to take that westbound schuylkill and get stuck in this for quite some time, of course you can take the grays ferry and he
Comes that precipitation as it works its way in overnight from the west noun pushing all the way over to the east. Want to give you a look at Storm Tracker6 live double scan and well show you exactly where this line s the western suburbs are looking at snow. Some of it highlighted in Brighter Shades of gray up in allentown and back to the west of reading. Still fairly significant snow and you are putting some accumulation down there at least several inches maybe a little more in some spots that. Darker shade of gray in Chester County is the lighter snow but even there some accumulation on roads and in philadelphia you can see how were getting very close now to that changeover from rain to snow. This is pretty much what we expected and it doesnt look like its going to be a big accumulation in philadelphia by any stretch but right now we do have some icy patches developing. One was actually in our parking lot outside as i stepped out of my vehicle a little while ago. Do be careful of tha
Pennants. If you want a nick foles quarterback balloon quarterback, you skran that, too. Reporter the delizio family is all dressed in eagles gear and anthony is noticing something about the customers. Everyone is happier when the eagles are winning. Youll see those happy customers on sunday because being a big fan doesnt get him out of working that day. That gives him a little bit of time. They close here at 4 00 so it gives them a little time to get home before that game. And if you are prepping for your party, they have made some extra beef gravy, extra pork gravy, if youre making your own sandwiches. They can also make you something called hoagie dip, which i have not tried but it sounds pretty good. Im lauren mayk. Samples perhaps . Taking a live look at lincoln financial field. The birds one win away from going to the super bowl. In the past couple of hours, we heard from the man who hopes to lead that team to victory. Much of the credit for nick foles success in philadelphia bel
In fact weve been showing it to you about every six minutes but anyway, you can see how there is that push of snow now into parts of philadelphia and the rain still hanging on in south jersey but even in parts of south jersey this will eventually push toward the east. If i go in tighter, you can see that changeover line. Theres northeast philadelphia starting to see that mix with some freezing freezing rain andt but rain over to the east but that will all be changing over. Center city is starting to change over to snow and weve seen that on the action cam and the snow itself isnt all that strong but we have had up to the north some occasional heavy blips of it that are putting down a little bit of extra accumulation and as i go out wider after this mover here, you can see that allentown, quakertown and points to the north like pottsville are still looking at that Brighter Shade of gray. That is steadier heavier snow up there. At the same time in lancaster its beginning to break up. Som