Like today. And today is the most uncomfortable day of the winter season so far. Part of the fountain at philadelphia square is frozen in place and they are starting to chip away at the ice. Spring mountain likes this kind of weather because they can make more snow overnight. Which is what they did. If you vent out our side bundle up and cover up. We face single digit windchills for most of the day. Ck of the forecast. We have plenty of sunshine as expected but one of those days where the sun is not helping and the numbers in from the National Weather service 20 in philadelphia and still 18 in trenton and 16 in allentown and 18 in reading and millville. And down the shore in cape may. 19 in airport in Atlantic City. Hes a0s and you the ndchills. Feels like 4 i oo much higher than what we had around down. 2 degree windchill in allentown and 5 in reading and millville raw conditions out there. As we look at the rest of the afternoon it stays where we are now. You are looking at temperatu
Doors today in the wake of last nights violent event that took the life of a freshman student. We opened up for students to comeou nsine together. Grief counseling taking place over thereking with the student to understan their cahe tragedy that took place. It was early evening when the Fatal Shooting took place at the Dunkin Donuts in phoenixville. Two small group his gathered and the not clear how well they knew each other other and a transaction to taking place and a disagreement and someone had a gun and reportedly fired multiple times and the 14yearold was shot and rushed to the hospital where he later avdied. Hing to say on the active investigation later today. Reporter so again the vib tim is identified as Jason Ortiz Cameron a freshman and only child and attending t phoenixville schools since at least middle counselors are hand today from 10 00 until 3 00 and january 2nd when classes resume there will be an assembly for healing. Live in phoenixville john rawlins, channel 6 acti
You told us about it in your first alert forecast. We have clear skies now. The wind is starting to diminish. Thats going to allow the temperatures to drop sharply. And just a few hours, our first alert continues through 8 00 a. M. For the entire area in the poconos and Lehigh Valley. But were likely to issue another first alert for sunday and monday. Just want to give you a heads up because thats a holiday. And well have less winds during the night tonight. So well be more looking at the actual temperatures than the feels like temperatures. Right now its 21 degrees. Thats as warm as its gotten all day. Hasnt gotten out of the teens in areas north and west. And it is just by the rer cold. We still have enough wind to make it feel like the Single Digits. Its not felt any better than this all day. We have been telling you about this that it was going to be like this. It feels like 4 00 in pottstown. As we go through the night tonight, the feels like temperature by tomorrow will be about
Still bringing in cold air. Its plenty cold to our west. We have the first alert continuing. Its going to be at its worst. Lehigh valley, poconos are the worst. They will be issuing another first alert for sunday and monday. And then less wind tonight. Plus more clouds will make it a little bit more tolerable than it would be otherwise. Its 19 degrees in philadelphia now. 14 in reading. 4 in mount pocono. And the feels like in single digits. You notice lancaster at 15. The wind has died down there. Thats a good sign. Its going to feel like this all night. Tomorrow morning, it will be almost this cold. So we dont have major relief for awhile. We do have snow thats going to being in for the part of the weekend. Well tell you how cold its going to get early next week coming up. The dangerous cold is make ing the mummers question whether the parade can go on. The Mummers Organization says they met today to discuss what to do because of the weather. But they say a final decision wont be mad
Blast thats coming up towards new years eve. A lot of traffic out there. You have to go pretty far south to get out of the cold. Its 83 degrees in south florida in miami. How about that . 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow, well be issuing another first alert for sunday into monday. Well get into those details perhaps tomorrow. And then the winds will be diminishing tonight. So it wont be quite as brutal tomorrow morning as it was this morning. But its pretty brutal and its hanging around. Look at these high temperatures compared to the average high of 42. By sunday a high of only 22. So no big improvement. 16 coatesville. Reading at 17. 5 in the poconos. Allentown feels like 4. Wilmington, 4. Lancaster, 5. So were not doing very well here. You can see them staying pretty steady for the rest of the night. Less brutal tomorrow. Well talk about snow coming this weekend and even colder air early next week. People across our area are doing what they can to find refugee fr from the cold. The mall was a a