You can see the slush covering parts of the road and in some areas roads are still covered in snow. Walk sag problem tonight. Sidewalks here in old city blanketed with slush and ice. If you thought tonights commute was a nightmare something worse is on the way. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Lets get trite chief meteorologist Scott Williams tracking that nice round. I told you earlier this week to buckle it was going to be a wild weather rood and thats what were getting still across the area right now. Monitoring critical temperatures temperatures. 32 degrees freezing in pottstown pottstown. 32 lancaster as well as reading but philadelphia 1 degree above freezing 33 degrees. 33 in wilmington as well. So that freezing rain and sleet beginning to change over to rain rain. From trenton to mt. Laurel into haddonfield, mull clay hill as well as physical it but north and west allentown perkasie, doylestown still looking at a little bit of sleet as well as sections of berks count
But philadelphia 1 degree above freezing 33 degrees. 33 in wilmington as well. So that freezing rain and sleet beginning to change over to rain rain. From trenton to mt. Laurel into haddonfield, mull clay hill as well as physical it but north and west allentown perkasie, doylestown still looking at a little bit of sleet as well as sections of berks county. Moving farther into south jersey mainly all rain right now from the shore moving toward the vineland, millville area as well as New Castle County in delaware right now all rain. Our next system though still out to the west and this will continue to move in our direction during the day tomorrow. So lets get you through tonight tonight. Temperatures rising above freezing tomorrow morning were above freezing but on and off again rain. Really the entire day tomorrow. But by this time tomorrow night north and west well watch colder air link up with that stalled out front to bring us some snow significant snow is possible out of that syste
And purple in and also into snow that white that you see but look at the sharp temperature contrast across the nation. We have 70s out ahead of that front. Single digits once you move a little farther north and west that. Cold air will be moving in changing that rain over to snow. But for 42 degrees right now. The wind is calm but look at that visibility. Watching out for fog out there. So heres the timeline. By 10 00 oclock tonight its still rain but north and west its changing over to wintry mix especially after midnight the pocono mountains the Lehigh Valley it goes all over to snow. In philadelphia, after midnight by 4am were looking at a bonafide snowstorm across our area and those temperatures continue to drop throughout the morning and into the afternoon. Were looking at that snow lingering a little farther to the south. So how much to expect . Area wide, five to 8inches of snow. Some locations could over achieve in central sections of delaware as well as south jersey jersey. So
Coated with ice couldnt get out of my street. So, our intrepid executive producer tom lowden said ill come pick you up. He was waiting at the bottom of the street for me tonight get from there to there grass was okay, it was crunchy but then i had to go over two driveways my neighbors, to get down, and it was such a sheet of ice well, heres what happened. So we have walked on the grass this far. I have to get across the neighbors driveway so i can get to some more grass. Here we go. Just like Christmas Eve 2008. Yes. There i am. Down on my butt. Cant forget that. Grab my purse. Did you have cardboard anything . , no just right on the butt there you go. And this is my wonderful husband. We have no lights on our street. So he had his phone trying to give us some light watch so now im down at the end of the driveway near my neighbors mailbox. And poor tom says ill try to come to you. Those are his headlights . Yes, and it was so icy on the street. Then i get up, to get to the car, toyed w
Until now our biggest single snowfall in philadelphia wailings 4. 8 inches. We could exceed that tomorrow. But, for today we mostly have rain throughout the metro area. As we look up toward the pocono mountain, Lehigh Valley, we see some pink mix in the with the green here. And that indicates athletes in the upper atmosphere that there could be some sleet which will be falling in to slightly milder temperatures, but this is where could you have a little bit after slippery slide trip. 34 degrees in philadelphia, bit of breeze as you can see from the American Flag across the street from us, 10mile per hour winds and 6 30 is our sunrise time. So we expect most of the sleet to continue to change over to rain milder day and then accumulating snow tomorrow. We will break all of that down for you coming up in just a few minutes. Soap bob kelly we saw you on the evening shows last night. Yes. You wore a jacket for them . Jacket, not bad the irish kid cleaned up pretty nice, put jacket on good