Jersey and delaware. Some models have pockets of snow in delaware higher than that. You can see some of the rain changing over to snow down into parts of kent county. What were watching is this giant storm system, again, its very elongated. Its going to take a while to get here. It will be here throughout the day tomorrow as it approaches our area. Watch the temperature profiles, you can see the temperatures still too warm to support all snow in many places. Were seeing that changeover in south delaware and new jersey. Then as temperatures falls, you see by tomorrow morning its up into philadelphia and on up into the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. Steve is going to walk you through some of those snow totals. Well start in south jersey with a closeup look at the neighborhoods is. Thats right. We do have some snow falling, very light levels right now. Our own Ted Greenburg saying light flurries occurring there. The snow will start in south jersey and delaware and will last the longest. A
Tomorrow evening. Philadelphia areas northwest Winter Weather advisories and also Winter Weather advisories along the immediate coastline where we will be seeing a little bit of mixing tomorrow afternoon. So this shows expected precipitation type. And except for the jersey shore, the delaware beaches, were talking about all snow. It will be most of the day snowing so we have that accuweather alert continuing for tomorrow, the steadiest between 9 oclock in the morning, 3 oclock in the afternoon during the heart of the day. Highest totals south and east and roads will be a problem. Ill talk more about that and have the expected snowfall map in the sevenday forecast. Jim. All right cecily. Lets switch live to action News Reporter chad pradelli at the penndot yard in norristown. What is penndot doing for what has turned out to be a legitimate snow event. Reporter penndot a brining salting and plowing as needed. This is really the calm before the storm. Crews are getting rested but here in
Into wildwood. So, well talk about what we can expect. The snow will arrive during the overnight hours from the southeast to northwest direction. The steadiest of that snow moves in from 9 00 a. M. To 3 oclock. Highest totals south and east of philadelphia, slushy and slick roads is a big concern as we go throughout the rest of the day. Weve got more details coming up with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Well send it back over you to brian. Melissa thank you. Lets switch live to chad pradelli live at the penndot salt yard in norristown. Chad, our very first live shot of the season there. I guess that means theres getting ready tonight. Reporter yeah, brian, hopefully not many more but a press conference under way as we speak as penndot updates us on its operations for this storm. A little bit of a lull right now but in a few hours, when the flakes begin to fall, things will certainly pick up. Inside the penndot Operations Center all eyes on the roads and the weather radar.
All along the coast, and this morning, we do have crew at the shore, as we get ready for a snowy saturday. All across the region. Today is saturday, december. Good morning, everyone, im jan carabeo. Lets get right over to the forecast. Heres meteorologist, Chelsey Ingram with eyewitness weather good saturday morning, chelsey , busy day for you. Really is busy day, busy morning. The snow really in itself hasnt arrived here in philadelphia, but i promise is you, january, it is on the way and moving in later this morning and this afternoon. So, just have a little bit of patience. As youre starting out your saturday. Let me take you now to storm scan3, show you whats going on. We have a lot of dry air in place across the greater philadelphia area. Dew points, really low, actually in the upper teens, so, we want to have to wait for that dry air to be erroded before we see some saturation happening in the air column, and some snow beginning to fall. Actually hit the grounds. That is going to
Pattern. As we head into the afternoon thats where we will see some of the flakes flying across the region. Let me start you out with a look at storm scan3, youll notice that we are very dry across the greater philadelphia region, even into portions every south jersey, as well as delaware. Weve had some snow showers from time to time down the shore early this morning, expecting to see a lot more of that, though, as we head later throughout the day today. It is 36 degrees right now in philadelphia. We are in the mid 30s in wilmington, 34 in millville, 31 down the shore in wildwood. And right around 34 degrees in Atlantic City. Look at these dew points, though, there is a lot of dry air in place, dew point around 19 degrees, in philadelphia, 24 in wilmington, we are going to have to overcome that dry air before we really start to see a snow moving in and snow accumulations beginning across the region. Some spots, with that said, though, how much, have already seen some pretty impressive