Action news is on a half hour early to bring you news on what could be blizzard conditions. Lets start with david. Good morning, everybody. Were off to the races. The snow is falling. For now lets cover all the warnings. Its a winter storm warning from philadelphia all the way down to Atlantic County and Cumberland County an advisory in Cape May County and down toward dover new ca big he warning area as s today will be counties highlighted in orange. Thats where we have a blizzard warning and that means at times over ext probably seven, eight hours, youll have the potential of heavy snow but heavy blowing snow that could give you blinding visibility and thats why the National Weather service has been warning you to take shelterinplace today especially if youre in these Northern Areas but even around philadelphia until the worst of this snow is done. As we take a look at Storm Tracker6 live double scan right now, a lot of rain in south jersey. We were expecting that. Then you get sleet
Wind at the jersey shore and a slippery mess in between. Trees and powers lines are down in the region and the storm is not done yet. Its tuesday afternoon and the big story is a late winter blast from mother nature. As we look live from the Queen Village section we see a tree blocking 6th and carpenter streets. One of many issues people are dealing with at this hour. We have live coverage from the Lehigh Valley and the shore. Now we go to meteorologist, david murphy. You see dry air coming up into the region and melting away the last of this snow. Its still snowing in northeast philadelphia but beginning to die down a bit. But in south philadelphia, and center city we were drying out. Some of this out to the north and west with the area of low pressure to our latitude may be drawn back in to points to the south, but if it does happen it wont put much accumulation down. The worst of this appears to be of, that means what you have on the ground now in terms of snowfall amounts is what y
Came through early thats now off the coast and that has made most of your roads on the damp side. Maybe drying out a little bit out to the west but youll want to slow it down. Being that the rain is over youll have some mist on the windshield and those windshield wipers go and on intermittent. As we look at the overnight rain there it shoots past us. Some of it was a little steady. A break as we go toward midday with additional spotty showers later this afternoon. Were looking at a a lot of brightening and well probably see the return of sunshine. For now we have a flood advisory in effect for basically urban area streets and maybe some small streams in southern bucks county Mercer County and then up and down the coast in areas north of brigantine, new jersey. These are probably going to fade off the board before too much longer now that the rain is dying down. 60 degrees in philadelphia so a little damp but mild. 53 in allentown. 56 in wilmington. 57 in trenton. 56 in millville and ar
It will be a pretty bright day with mostly sunny skies. Sitting on 60 degrees which isnt a bad place to be early in the morning, feels pretty comfortable ought there. 58 degrees in wilmington, 56 degrees in allentown. A little cooler but these numbers arent bad particularly when you consider theres not a lot of wind out there. Visibility problems exist in trenton and then starting to sweep down into parts of northeast philadelphia the way this model is showing all of this stuff. Airport in Atlantic City very low and visibility, too, so to the east of philadelphia there is the chance of some fog and some visibility issues. As we go through the day overall though were looking bright. 53 degrees by 7 oclock. 60 by noon. 67 degrees by 7 oclock and your high of seven is going to be late in the day. Well probably hit that at about 5 30 or 6 oclock this afternoon and holding upper 60s in through much of this period so a really pleasant day ahead. Winds on the light side but tomorrow we have a
That broke out at a Lehigh Valley funeral home. A man walking down the street in a philadelphia neighborhood was shot in the leg and he has no idea where the bullet came from. Theres the view out across center city. It gets warmer today, but we could get a few showers. Karen rogers is here for dave and matt pellman has traffic. Reporter lets start with the local view on Storm Tracker 6 live, we have light showers not a big deal, near allentown, reading, up to the north and west, a couple of near trenton, as well. I want to show you whats heading in this direction Storm Tracker 6 live 3d. Out to the west, more substantial showers, they need falling a part as they try to press east ward. Well be watching this, but well see showers later during the morning commute. I dont think they will be as heavy looking on the radar out to the west right now. Lots of clouds arc spotty morning shower, the big deal with the weather is temperature, were mild at 55 degrees in philadelphia. Were going up f