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
Morning and continue through wednesday. So coming up the latest on the timing of this system. Its a slow mover. How much snowfall to expect where you live. The eagles forecast previewing that already, plus it looks like a milder trend with that seven day forecast. Back over to you. All right, thank you scott. That Winter Weather behind some traffic issues along the Delaware River. Icy conditions have authorities closing part of route 29. Fox 29s jeff cole live in morrisville. Jeff . Reporter lucy, yeah, im on, n morrisville along route 32. This is actually called river road. Guess what . Theres more river than rode here. The ice in the delaware has push the water up over their banks here and its taken over the road here. Its actually closed it. Across the river here in trenton, there are still more headaches. Not far from new jerseys Capital Building icy slushy water from the Delaware River has claimed the road. Massive chunks of ice and snow have spilled into each other filling the ri
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
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Live double scan we can see that the area of concern at this point is really down in south jersey. We have one storm near elmer, one near mays landing, Sea Isle City and Atlantic City kind of peppered through the area. As we talked about yesterday that front that is lurching through our region isnt crossed into the coast at this point. As we look at satellite6 and action radar you can watch it in motion. The front moves through the western suburbs in the overnight hours and now its pushing through into new jersey and so we have clouds and leftover showers. We had a few showers earlier in philadelphia. As we look at the numbers right now, its 76 degrees already in philadelphia. Starting it off warm and muggy with that front still lingering. Out in the northwestern suburbs were dry and clear, youre in the up are 60s at this point but 73 in millville, 76 in cape may. How about the dewpoints there, way up there. It is a humid start to the day. 70degree dewpoint which is oppressive. 73 in d