laughing . And that would be the late show having little fun with all of the weather terms that have floated around out there this week. Katie, you normally try to keep it real for us, but do you of them soundretty dramatic. Yes, polar vortex, ya. Bomb cyclone. These are actual terms we use in the vernacular meteorologist, i swear, theyre real things. But i think, yes, they do have a flare to them. And they can sounds a little bizarre, especially when talking about a bomb cyclone thats affecting literally millions of people. In a huge way. We all learn something new every day, that was a term for a lot of people, new term, so im glad we could educate folks. It is a legitimate thing that we see thankfully now that the bomb cyclone is gone and the clean up can begin. The aftermath, the cold, really harsh cold, too, thats going to continue for our area , but here is a look at the wide zoom, showing you the exit now noreaster bearing down on canada, now we have to focus on temperature, how
18 months ago his life took a horrible turn. A septa Police Officer critically injured in a hitandrun. A year and a half later, hes heading back to the beat but first hes talking with fox 29. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Live look at the wilmington. Its father rather maze last week our worries were a fairly significant snowfall. Tonight, its a tiny amount of rain behind some big problems. Im lucy noland. The issue with that itty bit tie bit of rain it has been absolutely frigid so when those drops touched the ground, they immediately turned sidewalks and streets into ice rinks. Some schools have already reported delays and closings. You can see those at the bot. To screen coming on in right n now. We begin as we have for many days recently with meteorologist kathy orr koy. Moo guess, kathy. Boy washington a winter it has been, right. Start to 2018. Lucy a lot of times the School District goss out early and brush of the buses a glaze of ice on all those buses and wind chills a lot to be cr
Like 14 below in the mountains, 3 below in reading, 1 below in lancaster, 2 above in philadelphia and 1 above in wilmington. Throughout the day the wind chill values will get a little bit better. By lunchtime it will feel like 12 in philadelphia and during the Late Afternoon and early evening hours, were talking about mid teens. So yes, it is a far cry from the 64 degrees that we had two days ago but its not going to continue to feel quite this bad as the day wears on. Satellite and the radar shows clear skies. Its going to be a nicelooking day, just blustery and cold. Mostly sunny, windy or breezy and cold with a high of 27, wind chills in the teens. When i come back in just a few minutes, well focus on how long this cold weather will stick around and the possibility of the snow in the accuweather 7day forecast. Another january thaw arrives this weekend and this past weekend has been bitter cold but there are signs we could be in the 60s by next weekend and ill have details in just a
7 00 a. M. On wednesday before what started ashore. You can see it is not that far away, riepgt . Which way is it moving . There is the edge. It is not getting any closer. It continues to snow in the northern portions of berks county, well just wait until it gets a little push and eventually it will and starts coming down our way. It may start to rain in the philadelphia area, by the morning rush, it is snowing and temperatures are going down a little bit. That means some accumulation and tammie will tell you about that glenn, you talked about that it was not moving. I think there is a lot of people would say it is fine if it does not want to move. We know better than that. Allentown, redding and up here in berks county and Lehigh Valley and the suburbs into the poconos, thats where we could see the 3 to 6 inches and the light band of pink here, thats 1 to 3 inches. Then you get to the lower suburbs to philadelphia. Just to east side of i95. Thats where we could see 1 to 2 inch of sno
Been colder, thats where weve been seeing the snow falling overnight. Ive just added delaware, and new castle and its trending colder and a first alert right now. We will see this one easing off during the afternoon. Overnight, the snow has made a lot of progress. It was stuck way to the north and west yesterday in the lee high valley but is now moving into the south jersey. It first arrived in allentown and reading where its still coming down and accumulate. But look at delaware right now. You can see that little bit where its a little bit colder coming into wilmington to northwestern New Castle County. And wilmington has just dropped down to 32 degrees. Lee high valley is still above freezing in philadelphia and south jersey. There will be some limited accumulation in these neighborhoods. But the worst of it is going to be avoiding philadelphia and south jersey. Well break it down hour by hour with your future cast coming up. But first Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic.