Overwhelmed by snow the city is forced to Cancel School for another day as the clean up continues tonight. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im ukee washington. In closing effects public and arch diocesan schools. Hundreds of other delays and closings for tomorrow as well you can see those at the bottom of your screen. In the meantime crews working around the clock to clear roads but they still have days of work ahead. Eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco in center city right now where many streets are still untouched by plows tonight. Diana . Reporter ukee, still a lot to do tonight as these snow piles Start Building up big trucks are coming in and moving all of this snow out of here, but in lot of neighborhoods in the city tonight, day two of cleanup still looks a lot like day one and that has frustration mounting. Nearly two daze days since the blizzard of 2016 stopped dumping snow and the cleanup may be underway. Just not fast enough for many in south philly. Cant go to work. Cant do
Streets entire blocks still untouched by plows. Roads there so bad no school again tomorrow. And in philadelphia, piles of snow taller than people walking next to them in so many places this is overbrook tonight all philadelphia public and Catholic Schools are closed tomorrow. Good evening to you, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Weve got a lives all the closures running at the bottom of your screen throughout this hour. Our screws are spread out across the area as they try to clean up from this blizzard from allentown city officials admit they were overwhelmed to warminster and septa struggle to get back on time. Lets start with kathy all that melting snow, kathy, could be ice by the morning. Absolutely. We have a huge differential in temperature from night to day iain you can see on ultimate doppler cold over us right now but mild air moving in. So the daytime temperatures will be above freezing, then we refreeze overnight. Right now in philadelphia, throw but look at the north and west
So the daytime temperatures will be above freezing, then we refreeze overnight. Right now in philadelphia, throw but look at the north and west 19 in allentown. 22 in pottstown. Its 27 in the poconos but milder to the south and east. We will refreeze overnight and that means temperatures between 26 and 30 degrees anything that looks shiny that looks wet obviously is going to be ice. Most likely on those untreated surfaces the road shoulders, steps, sidewalks, please be careful even if in your driveway come tomorrow morning. Then well be watching an area of low pressure. Our neck front that will be bring something rain possibly tomorrow afternoon. Possibly some wintry precipitation early wednesday morning. And then tracking this coastal low that many people are talking about. Well separate the fiction from the facts coming up with your seven day forecast. All right, kathy thanks before you walk out the door be sure to check in witness fox 29 weather and Traffic Authority for any problem
That. Who has the the best looking snow man, snow woman out there. I think we should. I got that on fox 29 catch to it. Yes. It is a snow car. It is a creative idea. I liked this. They humanized it. It is cute. Dont drive around like that. What hashtag should we use. Fox 29 snow. Fox 29 snow. We kept stepping on each other. We do that often. Yeah. Sue, can you just talk. It is a figurative thing, thank goodness. We have a six out of ten today. We will see cloud and rain later on and were still off to the cold start but things will start to improve now that were getting close to sunrise. We have reached the the freezing mark in philadelphia, and it is is the ill in the 20s in lancaster, pottstown and trenton. The teens in allentown and reading, but down to the south of us, it is a above freezing and wildwood, atlantic city, millville and dover. Twentythree in wilmington. We have mentioned these temperatures because you have to watch out for ice spots around this morning. Sunrise time is
Was on the phone with her yesterday when she got the the the word that she was not going to school today. All i heard was ahh, because she didnt to have get out of her pajamas and maybe you do not either but if you do, this is the the situation out there. Refreeze overnight, of everything that melted yesterday, or almost everything and we call that black ice because the ice reflects usually the pavement underneath it or the blacktop of the roads, so temperatures, many of them, falling to the teens and 20s overnight, and so the pavement appears to be shiny and it appears wet, but it is slippery. Road, shoulders, steps, sidewalks are probably your biggest hazards this morning as you go outside. So we want to warn you before we take that first step out the door we dont want it to be a hazardous one for you. This is what were talking about at least north of philadelphia a, 25 degrees here in the city, 17 in allentown, 24 in lancaster. We have some temperatures to the the south of us that a