Lets take live look at wilmington, delaware. You can see visibility being reduced as both the snow and the winds start to pick up there. Pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware all under a state of emergency tonight. Thanks for joining us im dawn timmeney. Im lucy noland. Philadelphia is under a snow emergency conditions outside they are quickly deteriorating. Not the typical friday night in downtown philadelphia. Most folks theyre staying home. Theyre hunkering down. In the studio can meteorologist kathy orr tracking the latest on this storm. Kathy. Its amazing, dawn. We have seen conditions go from this cloudy skies and good visibility in a snap down to Poor Visibility and blowing snow. You can see on ultimate doppler waves of heavy snow pushing into the region, and win the next three hours well have band shifting right through philadelphia. At a rate of two to 5inches an hour. It will be brief but it will be a big burst of snow. Right now you can see moderate snow moving along the i9
A house at the front where i am looks fine. But looking down, you can see the incredible damage that occurred here this afternoon. This is the line of storms that topper just described. Came through this section of Silver Spring at about 2 15 this afternoon doing lots and lots of damage, particularly here to the woodmore subdivision in Silver Spring. That is Mother Nature really flexing her muscles. Damage was extensive to this house in the woodmore subdivision of Silver Spring. The show piece of this backyard gave way and crashed full force on the house. One was home or in in time lapse, witnessed the power of Mother Nature as she winds up to throw her punches on our region. Within minutes, incinerating strokes of lightning lit up the horizon. The storms came with wind gusts that push sheets of rain into blinding curtains. Minor flash flooding was one result. Another result, down trees and power lines. Many streets blocked and Power Outages that came hand in hand. Fortunately, damage
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Possible record breaking temperatures. Dave murphy, my car said 6 degrees when i got into it this morning. I know theres going to be a lot of folks tweeting in those pictures of the car thing were they get going. Yeah, its another morning for the deep chill. We also have a wind chill advisory up in the poconos so if youre headed up that way between now and 10 oclock look out for wind chills going as low as 20 degrees below zero. Im going warn you about icy patches out there not only on side streets but sidewalks and driveways. We had more melting yesterday even though temperatures were only in the 20s in the afternoon, the sun did a number thon so there is the possibility of a melt and then refreeze this morning. Satellite shows you theres going to be sunshine coming up over the horizon. Overall we expect partly sunny skies but the temperatures are down there again. 10 degrees in philadelphia. 1 degree below zero in allentown and one in reading and in these two spots those are new reco
Possibly longer for areas off to the east. Take a look at the white house from our michael son weather camera. Looking a little snowy out there. Kind after snow globe. We are going to see the visibilities drop. So a lot of people not on the roads. Thats good. Were getting the roads cleaned up for you. And within the next couple of hours, if you head out for work or your commute, we are going to see some slick spots, especially on the side roads. The treated roads seem to be doing okay. 31 degrees though. Here comes the snow. Are we seeing it really come down. Notice the areas in blue. Well zoom in in just a moment. I want to bring your attention back off to 81, the back edge ever the storm so we know its not going to be lasting for too much longer. Were talking mid to late morning. Then after lunch time things look be looking a lot better as far as weather conditions. Well still have issues on the side roads especially. Later on tonight anything left over will freeze. Here we go with l