stores. and home sweet home for the holidays. if you are traveling today, you may have to deal with a soggy saturday. what to expect if you are hitting the road today. and good morning and welcome to nbc10 news today. i m dray clark. it s now 6:00 on this saturday morning. and certainly it s nice to be with you. more travelers will be heading home for the holidays today. and with that said they ll be hitting the roads with a wet start on this saturday morning. let s get right to meteorologist krystal klei and the first alert forecast. good morning. krystal. good morning, dray, and everyone watching with us early this morning. if you re up early this morning you might be getting ready for travel plans. unfortunately those are going to include rain conditions outside. we ve got periods of some steady rain on and off throughout much of today in the forecast. steadier stuff right now mostly in the north and west neighborhoods up to the lehigh valley and burks county and esp
some yellows and oranges actually thunderstorm activity but i don t think we re going to get any thunderstorms. just periods of steadier rain. then you see the snow. we re going to stay on the warm side of this today, so mild temps, no snow in our forecast, just the rain. regardless, the snow could cause some delays for flights in other parts of the country. temperatures out there, yeah, take a look at how mild we are. we re just at 40 degrees in allentown, 46 in philadelphia. we ve got 50, millville, dover, 52 wildwood and 52 atlantic city. so it s not a cold start out there. and we will stay on the warmer side of things the rest of today. we re going to track that out for you hour by hour for your saturday last-minute shoppers coming up in a few minutes. all right. thank you, krystal. lots of shoppers will be hitting the malls and stores today trying to pick up those last-minute holiday gifts. and nbc10 s randy gyllenhaal is live in cherry hill. randy, you ve been talking
it was all caught on camera. nbc 10 news starts now. right now a wintry mix moving in across pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware. just in time for christmas. good evening, everyone, i m ted greenberg. get ready for a messy mix of rain and snow that will make for sloppy conditions early christmas day. a chilly christmas eve here in philadelphia. nbc 10 on the ben franklin parkway where people were bundled up outside. it will be a very windy christmas with gusts up to 50 miles an hour. so if you re getting ready to hit the eagles tailgate tomorrow, be prepared. let s get right to steve sosna for a look at the christmas day forecast. that s right, ted. i ll have that for you in just a second. if you are headed to midnight service, it is really raw, rainy and rude outside. this traffic camera shaking in the wind right now. we have a sideways rain falling in philadelphia and many of our suburbs right now. a live look at the radar. you see the rain and snow stretches from
one woman was hurt t to save her belongings. there s no word on how that fire started. it is a cold and bluster monday night. this is a live look at the flag whipping around on top of the buildings in center city. at times this evening we saw wind gusts topping 40 miles per hour. the winds are to blame for power outages across the region. more than 15,000 utility company customers spent part of christmas without electricity on this cold day. most happened in bucks and montgomery county. the start of a cold week. so let s get the latest on the weather in your neighborhood. meteorologist glenn schwartz is here with the forecast. a lot of people get ready to head back to work in the morning. like you said with e hope they got winter coats for christmas. this is just the beginning. this is nothing compared to what s coming this week and the following woke. we got up to 61 on saturday. 43 sunday. 40 today. that was mostly just after midnight. and then look at by wednesday the hi
starts as early as 5:00 a.m. saturday. and with the extreme cold goes through 8:00 a.m. on tuesday. another long lasting thing here, the snow not amounting to a whole lot, a coating of two inches. but slippery on untreated surfaces because the roads are so cold and dangerous. subzero wind chills as we head toward new year s eve and new year s day. timing s just not very good. nothing on the radar close by. we do have a significant area of snow coming through the midwest, hitting the chicago area right now. it s a fast moving clipper system. it has limited potential, but there it is covering much of the area, even by 5:00 a.m. some of the western suburbs. by 8:00 a.m., covering most of us and lasting for several hours through the midday hours, possibly even into early afternoon in some spots. not accumulating a whole lot, but we re talking about slippery conditions. a coating to two inches. it s the fluffy kind of snow that would be blowing around in the wind. after that, it g