Commuters. Watching the snow rates increasing through the course of the evening hours but you know what, this is a pretty cold storm. Look at these temperatures across the Delaware Valley. Its down into the 20s in many locations. 16 right now in the poconos. Everything thats falling out of the sky sticking to the roads. Sticking to the sidewalks and of course sticking to your drivew driveway. Visibilities of concern with the snow rates increasing. Visibilities are going down. You notice we do have three quarter mile ships visibility here in philadelphia. A lot of spots reporting less than a quarter mile of a mile in parts of new jersey. Take live look at ultimate doppler the turnpike down 295, 70 is a nightmare at this hour. We just talked about Speed Sensors a crawl in many of our roadways. Burlington county down towards winslow township, galloway all dealing with moderate to heavy snows and even into delaware where we do speed restrictions on the delaware Memorial Bridge thats for go
The wrong time and end of the week volume conspired to create chaos on the roadways. Thank goodness thats over. Friday night. The big story is cleaning up from the nuisance accuweather event. Public utilities and private companies have the clearing roadways, putting down salt, clearing the Delaware Valley and protecting it overnight and into the morning. Reporter dann cuellar is live in center city philadelphia. There are still potential problems out there. Thats right, jim. It was Something Else out here today. After a wild and crazy afternoon and evening during rush hour, a number of Traffic Signals north of city hall are back in service tonight. The traffic chaos created by the lack of signal in the snowstorm proved a challenge for many motorists. It could not have come at a worst time. A number of traffic lights at city hall went down just after 3 00, right in the middle of rush hour and a snowstorm. Its a mess down here today. Its a mess, you know . The electrical problems caused
Shore on the boardwalk in wildwood tonight. Plows are working to clear the roads after a really messy drive home. The snow hit at the worst possible time. Rush hour on a friday night. Delays for some folks more than an hour and tonight the big concern the freeze. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. The snow caused serious headaches for folks today and we have Live Team Coverage for you with brad sattin in cherry hill, county, but lets start with meteorologist mike masco outside our studios in old city. Brrr, mike. It actually hurts to be out for long period of time. Good evening, guys. Good evening, everybody. Its a huddle and culled dell kind of night tonight. Youre looking at record speeds witness pedestrians moving down Market Street from point a to point b. Theyre getting warm as fast as they can. The next issue this evening and into the overnight hours is, of course, the refreezing. You can see this is just one of the many streets, of course, in phi
Go into the new jersey, this is the area where we were expecting the most out of the snow, thats where we got it. Columbus, 3. 5. Toms river, 3 1 2. Monroeville in salem county, 2 1 2 inches. Brandywine in delaware, 3 inches. Newark, 2. 4. Middletown, 2. 3. Claymont a little under two inches. Smyrna, 1. 3 in kent county. Now, the colder air is starting to rush in on the backside. 16 degrees in coatsville, 21 in bethlehem. Him center city, 21. Glassboro, 22. Vineland, 19. Hammonton, 21. The biggest problem were seeing this morning, all the secondary roads are completely snow covered. You need to take it easy out there, theres a lot of frozen slush and icy patches, as well. This is 5 30 p. M. , the storm developed there and not off the capes of the carolinas. Wewe would have seen five to ten inches, instead we saw 2 or 3 and it pushed over the coast. Well have Clear Conditions and then clouds approach from the west. A gusty breeze, 41 is the high, look for combination of sun and clouds.
Phase, therefore we saw only two to three inches. Had the storm developed off the coast of the carolinas and come up, we would have seen five to ten inches. Fortunately it developed off the delmarva and we saw two to three inches of snow yesterday evening. Its long gone, and clouds will roll in later this afternoon. Clouds and sun is the call from accuweather. Its breezy, 41 degrees will feel like the upper 20s, low 30s with with the winds. When i come back well talk about a nice little warm up in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. A pedestrian was hit and killed while walking on the onramp to i95 in Delaware County overnight. The happened on the ramp southbound i95 highland avenue in chester. State police say the driver of the car who struck the victim did stop. No word of charges or why the victim was walking on the ramp. Check out the scene of the 1600 block of south 13th street in south philadelphia. Nearly ever car is covered with a fresh dusting of snow. Plow trucks wer