Peterson with the eyewitness Weather Forecast, good sunday morning, matt, how are you doing. Hanging this there. I stayed up way too late. Were all happy. It is okay to stay up late for a good reason. Watched the bird last night, did you do it. I made it through entire game and my husband woke me up and told me we won. It was cold for the game, it got windy later on in the third and Fourth Quarter as well. We will see that cool, breezy conditions, through the Morning Hours here on our sunday. It will get less breezy but it will stay very cold, all day licensing and it doesnt look like it lets up through the workweek either. Storm scan three on this sunday morning, not too much going on. It is a relatively clear, quiet start to the day, few high cloud here and there. Temperatures are for the most part very cold. Plenty of teens and Single Digits in the poconos. Three in mount pocono we are starting out. Fifteen in philadelphia and millville. Sixteen and 17 toward ac and wildwood. When w
Get trapped in because the access roads out of our neighborhood would be flooded. Reporter the problem thats developed here is quite simply an ice jam that forces the current to accumulate in isolated areas. The worst of it has been right here at the intersection of river road and ferry road in lower makefield. So, local officials are urging commuters to avoid the area. The river continues to be ice dammed along the calhoun street bridge so the river is unpredictable. The water could rise a little bit and even some ice flows could come up on the roadway. Reporter now, minor flooding in this area begins at 20 feet. Right now its right around 21 feet, maybe a little lower so obviously it could have been a lot worse. Also, parts of route 29 across the river over in new jersey were shut down today as a precaution but this intersection of river road and ferry road in lower makefield remains closed at this hour. Reporting live from lower makefield, walter perez channel6 action news. Jim. Tha
Conditions have got authorities closing part of route 29. Fox 29s jeff cole reports from morrisville, bucks county. Reporter were on river road in morrisville, pennsylvania, where theres more river than road and across the river in trenton, the ice in the delaware has pushed the water up there causing still more headaches. The Delaware River looks more like a glacier tonight as it flows past new jerseys capital city. 75yearold arthur hill has come to trentons calhoun street bridge to marvel at winters handy work. I just want to capture the ice as opposed to what i caught this summer with sun sets and send it to my daughter whose down off the gulf of mexico. Reporter but what is scenic to some a problem to others new jersey dot workers were fighting early monday afternoon to open the drains along a closed section of route 29 feeding the capital complex. The icy overflow from the delaware moved in at 4 00 this morning they say. Theres a big clog of ice and snow here. All the bridges, the
Moving along the same cold front thats moving through right now. So future tracker showing by dinnertime tomorrow night, weve got snow across most of our viewing area. However, some areas there will be a mixing or changeover to rain. So, its really about location. Winter storm watch has been posted for chester, montgomery, bucks, mercer county, all areas north and west. Saturday at 7 oclock until sunday morning. Now these are the areas that the travel will be the trickest on saturday night. So, we are speeding up the time line a little bit. The storm time line shows you that snow will be pushing in from the southwest to the northeast between about 4 00 and 6 oclock tomorrow night. So, its here by dinnertime. The heaviest snow between 6 oclock and midnight and again rain south and east of philadelphia. Philadelphia right on the line. Its all moving out between midnight and 2 oclock in the morning. Ill talk about how much accumulation to expect where you live coming up in the full accuwe
Barnsboro 5 oclock, richwood coming in at 5 01, Gloucester City just after the 5 oclock hour, tacony coming in at 5 03, collingswood right around 5 34, so those towns and times as that line continues to push to the east at nearly 45 miles an hour. Not only lightning is a concern but also the intense rain with this. Rainfall rates with these storms have been over two to three as much as 4inches an hour, 4. 3inches per hour, so it is blinding rain as it passes through and we have an additional Severe Thunderstorm Warning southern parts of New Castle County as well as kent county down to woodside. This until about 4 00, 5 30 this morning. Nasty cluster of storms, moving towards miles an hour today nah middletown nearly 150 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes so this well have to watch for all of our Delaware County watches here over the next 15 to 20 minutes. I bring in meteorologist Melissa Magee and this mag and s is a big storm engulfing most of the midatlantic. Thats right. When