Traffic. Always a quiet week in between the holidays. 422, cameras at trooper road, not bad. Eastbound seeing a little more volume than usual headed toward the schuylkill expressway. For now it looks good. Were not seeing any backups there. The schuylkill expressway was open all morning, we didnt have to deal with construction. Were seeing great drive times. 12 minutes in both directions, eastbound and westbound from the blue route to the vine street expressway. Speeds there into the 60s. Ireland end in morristown at 38 and cameras ill end in morristown at 38 and nixon drive, not many cars eastbound and westbound. Dry, too. Another good thing to add to your morning. Back to you. Breaking news in Burlington County. Firefighters rescued a family of three through their upstairs window and off the roof overnight as the home burned around them. Nbc10s matt delucia is live where crews have been out in the cold for hours now. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Everyone in the house did get
I95 in wilmington. Fia isrst alracking the conditis in your neighborhood. Again, steve, were not going to get swamped by this snow. Right. But it really doesnt factor in well with the cold temperatures weve had all week long. Yeah, normally this would be deal. Ettable snow, a coating to but the problem with this one is weve had such cold ground temperatures. So anything that falls will immediately stick if not treated. And even the treated surfaces when you get below 20 degrees, the chemicals dont work as effectively. So really your tires need some kind of traction especially when the snow compacts and turns into ice. This is a live look at i95 in south philadelphia where it is snowing if you look closely in the street lights there. Snow now falling in philadelphia. Here is your first alert. We have the entire viewing area in it. And its through tuesday. You may ask why its not going to snow through tuesday. Round one is the snow for today. Round two is the bitter cold that comes in he
I95 in wilmington from our camera at the blue rock stadium. You can see traffic here is clear. Thats the good news. Snow has been coming down in the wilmington area for about three hours right now. Now lets get more from our weather with meteorologist steve sosna. Steve, we have been telling people about this for days. Its a clipper system. Its not like its going t owevs still cold. Yeah, its these little storms that a lot of people like to dismiss because, oh, coating to two inches, but the problem is weve had such frigid ground temperatures, weve had this arctic outbreak and now with everything falling at one time it accumulated instantaneously and caused a real mess on the roadways. If you can, stay home. Even in the camera shot here the main roads in the city are still covered right now. So, again, not good conditions out there. And thats exactly why we issued the first alert yesterday to kind of warn you of this messy scenario. Because just a coating to two inches of snow, when ca
First alert until tuesday morning. Feels like temperatures below zero with a live look in philadelphia from our Kimmel Center camera on broad street. The temperature in center city is 26 degrees. If youre heading out tonight, or tomorrow, youre really going to need to bundle up. In the Lehigh Valley, even colder. Downtown allentown is 19 degrees and falling, heading south to delaware, where its a few degrees warmer but still very cold. 26 degrees in wilmington and traffic moving but snow left over on the road. Will freeze tonight leading to more dangerous travel conditions and some snow falling right now in parts of delaware and at the jersey shore. Glenn schwartz is keeping his eye on the plunging temperatures. How low will they go tonight . Teens in most of the area. Single digits in other places and its going to feel like its near zero. And allentown, 18. Walnut port is already down to 17. Jersey shore got the most snow like Atlantic City international, 25. Already below frieeezing
Were in a first alert weather this morning. Lets get right to tammie souza and the most accurate forecast. Good morning to all of you. Best thing you can do for yourself today is stay home. Or if you have to go out, limit the time that you will be outside. Special care for your pets, too, because this is dangerously cold weather. Its been a few years since weve really gotten these bitter temperatures. And i just looked up the record. Yesterday before midnight, we actually hit the coldest december temperature that we have seen since 2004. We were down around 11 degrees, that is for december, not january, but that is pretty cold. 6 in allentown, 9 in center c y city. Feels like 20 below in mt. Pocono. Atlantic city, 7 below. Millville at 3 below and tren tn at 4 below. And today well be looking pretty much not snow totals. Ignore that. Well be looking at the upper teens with sunshine and feels like between 0 and 10. And crews are still in the process of clearing that accident scene on th