Blow 2 in pennsylvania. Find out where drivers are filling up for less and speaking of driving dropping, temperatures are tumbling. We havent felt weather this cold in about 10 months. Good evening, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. We have been spoil so far this winter but bitter cold is now blanketing the region. Meteorologist indicat kate bills outside on the sky deck. How long will they go for the temperatures as well. They continue to drop. I just changed our forecast knock it down couple of degrees because temperatures are dropping so rapidly tonight. Dew points are incredibly low. Skies are clear. It is a recipe for cold and i can tell you im feeling it on the sky deck right now. Definitely want the gloves, the hat, the scarf, the whole 9 yards i got the fleece lined tights on right now those are helping. Its 15 in philadelphia. That was our original forecasted low. Now revised it to around 13. It is 13 in reading and in land cast right now. Mount pocono is sitting at zero ma
Weather creating problems across the country. First off mississippi. Several People Killed when twisters moved through. In our area its not the holiday getaway anyone hoped for on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Drenching rains leaving cars almost underwater in bayside. Expressway. Slow going. Now were getting ready for warmth. We have several reports. We begin with meteorologist lee goldberg outside our studios on the Upper West Side. Weve been getting soaked for about eight hours now. Thankfully this is the last in the train of downpours coming through. Reporter it is the caboose. Weve had a lot of record warmth. Rain. Look at lower manhattan. The cloud cover down to 300 feet. So the low visibilities will be a concern. 64 degrees right now. An inch and a half in new york city. The record for the date is 1. 6 inches from 1913. You can see the back ems approaching new york city. Weve had thunderstorms over the east end over the past hour. Now theres heavy rain over upper ma
Temperatures moving much. Expect our warmup to kick off after 7 00 this morning. It carrying us into the upper 40s, lower 50s for lunchtime and those clouds are thicking up. I will go with partly to mostly cloudy skies today. And at 4 p. M. , do have a little blip of green on the map. Not a lot of wet weather out there today. Keeping it mops ly dry. Only the slight chance for a shower for your monday. 48 to 56. Highs mostly cloudy. Mild and breezy for sure and wait until you see how warm it gets in time for Christmas Eve coming up. Now send you over to Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic. Julie, anything happening on the roads . Julie shiri, right now roads are looking good route 1, 93 south on the map. Bright green and volume is light the speed limit ride. Pike is open through framingham and the tolls. What you get through brighton. 23 minutes on the pike from 495 to mass avenue. 9 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to the pike. 23 minutes from 495 to the levere
So i am going to thicken those clouds by lunchtime today, upper 40s to the north and west of boston. Lower 50s by lunchtime to the south and east and that is the time the winds will really start to crank down from the south shore to the cape and islands. 4 p. M. Temperatures still teetering right around that 50 50degree mark. Highs today ranging from 48 to 56. Breezy today. I am going to highlight some of those winds coming up in just a few. Now lets send you over to jewel yule with live drive time traffic. Julie grauert with live drive time traffic. Where are things picking up . Julie things are picking up 93 south around the cloverleaf. As we shift south expressway, average speeds have dropped down to 18 Miles Per Hour. You can see that slowing reflected in the brake lights that are bumpertobumper as you pass freeport street and the gas tank. Live drive times. 13 minutes on route 1 from 128 to the tobin. 18 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to the pike. 24 minutes on
Would come to students specifically targeting the two high schools. The superintendent says the safety comes first and due to the concern for parents and the high probability that there would be a high amount of absentees, he decided to shut down all the Public Schools in the city. Since that decision was made the f. B. I. Was called in, efforts have been made to find the person responsible and they have done checks of doors and windows at all of the schools and checked for anything that could be dangerous and say no devices were found. Im not saying a hoax. What im saying is right now it does not appear to be a credible threat now. That doesnt mean it wasnt at one time. I dont know the intent of the perpetrator. But what i can tell the perpetrator is well use every possible resource we can to find you, and you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Reporter police say although the schools will reopen tomorrow as scheduled, there will be a those schools to make everybody fee