With the first real chance of sleet or freezing rain, its a wakeup call. Doesnt look much of a plowing operation, looks like were going to be salting, laying down material, keep the roads from freezing up. For drivers lulled into a sense of winter isnt coming, pay attention. People see snow on the ground, they drive carefully. When you dont see it, dont realize its ice, people try and drive like they normally would and that can be dangerous. Reporter so penn dot says as difficult as it may be, you need to get your mind back into winter mode. Live in South Whitehall township, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. A live look at i76 in center city, no Winter Weather here, but penn dot says when it does come, they are ready. They have more than 450 snow plow trucks and 120,000 tons of salt ready to go. Download the nbc 10 news app ahead of the wet and potentially wintery weather. Use the first alert radar to track the storms as it moves through your area, get alerts and updates sent to your smartpho
Archdiocesan schools have announced early dismissals for schools. We are running the School Closings and early dismissals across the region at the bottom of the screen and you can get them at 6abc. Com. Now lets get a look at weather and traffic and go over to david murphy and karen rogers, good morning. Reporter it is important to look at this storm in two waves. The first one is today, we can expect patchy light snow. Weve had it on and off through the region. The current area of concern is the northern suburbs where a generally light snow is falling. It will total one to three inches during during the day. The extra snowfall starts in the afternoon or evening. Thats when an area of low pressure you can kind of see potassium precipitation off radar view off the carolinas form. And tomorrow it starts as a noreaster and pushes in heavy snow across the region. Theres skepticism or how much snow we are going to get on it of this. We have a warning you mean through philadelphia, down into
Now. Towards sections of upper montgomery and bucks county looking at a little more of that sleet and freezing rain moving in. As we take you into sections of delaware right now, you can see around the wilmington area New Castle County seeing some of that light frozen precipitation moving into parts of south jersey. So you can see off to the west, were looking at more moisture that continues to move in toward our area. But look at the temperatures right now. 29 degrees. Feels like temperatures are in the teens. So we are watching out for that freezing drizzle and fog. That wintry mix continues into the evening and those temperatures will be at or below freezing. So overnight tonight black ice tomorrow morning black ice when i come indoors well talk more about snow in the seven day forecast and even colder temperatures. Back to you. Okay talk to you then scott. A business of a mess depending on where you are. Sleet, freezing rain flurries the recipe for a messy monday on the roads. And
The corporate realtor was a passenger on illfated amtrak 188. Also on board according to italys ambassador a citizen giuseppe piras. The family of missing passenger Bob Gildersleeve called to philadelphias medical Examiners Office to confirm his identity. My name is Marc Gildersleeve help me find my dad. Reporter their familys search ending in heartbreak as they were told hed been found at the crash scene. When he smiles you want to smile. Reporter at Medgar Evers College in brooklyn they miss their dean of Student Affairs derrick griffith. He believed he could be a change agent in someones life so he carried himself that way. Reporter in new york the loss of abid gilani wells fargos senior hospitality finance Vice President brought sadness to his colleagues. The family of 20yearold Navy Midshipman Justin Zemser released several more pictures of a son who was proud he had made it to the u. S. Naval academy. And in the quiet car on amtrak 188 was 48yearold jim gaines a Video Technology
Chilly 40 degrees in philadelphia. Thats a little bit of a dip in the last halfhour. Most of the suburbs in the 30s, we have time to drop the numbers 40 degrees, theres a chance of rural areas getting down to the freezing mark north and west. If you have not pulled in the potted plans do that. It feels close to freezing across the region this morning. A return of late winter in terms of how it feels heading to the bus stop feels like the upper 30s, partly cloudy and cold and breezy this morning. Theres the freeze warning this morning up until 9 00 a. M. In the northern and western suburbs. Tonight we go down again to the freezing mark its a watch in some areas north and west. Again tonight cover up the sensitive plants. 41 degrees by 9 00 a. M. 48 by noon, 55 is the high at p. M. 6 00 p. M. , 53 no worse than partly sunny skies as we go through the day. The pollen count is running high we warned you about this yesterday. Looks like it drops off over the weekend, but today you have issu