You spend more quality time with your dog . Then you belong at Bass Pro Shops dog days event and sale for big savings, plus seminars, giveaways, photos, and pet parades, all for free. Bass pro shops. Action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With jaime apody, meteorologist cecily tynan, Rick Williams and monica malpass. A major winter storm is bearing down on the Delaware Valley and now crews are working hard to get ready. Blizzard and winter storm warnings go into effect in about three hours from now. A potentially dangerous march noreaster wont be too far behind. It is monday night and the big story on action news is the snowstorm looming off to our west. The city of philadelphia could see a foot of snow and that is prompting the City School District to close all Public Schools tomorrow. The same goes for archdiocesan and parochial schools in the city of philadelphia. Of course we have School Closures for you running at the bottom of your screen continuously. Those are also
Across the ohio valley, theres this piece of energy its from the Northern Branch of the jet stream. What this will do, it will feed into this, invigorate it pull in the cold air and then this storm system will be really hugging the coast. The actual latest track pushing a little bit farther to the west so what this means, theres going to be a battle between the cold air feeding in from the northwest and the warm ocean water. Blizzard warnings have been posted north of philadelphia. Now, what this means, the concern isnt just the snow piling up there. Theyre going to get a lot of snow. Its also the fact that its going to be blowing around. Blizzard warnings when you get wind more than 35 Miles Per Hour reducing visibility less to a quarter mile for three consecutive hours so near whiteout conditions there. Most of the rest of our viewing area under winter storm warnings. So what this means, the snow arriving from the southwest to the northeast between 10 00 and 1 oclock. The height of t