More specifically here in philadelphia. Core the answers lets turn to meteorologist Katie Fehlinger she is tracking the snow from the cbs3 weather center. Hi, katie good guys, its all about location, location, locate with this one. We ended up with snow earlier this morning which well discuss in more detail later in the show. But i do want to take you back in time. Start things off with just a time lapse and take you wack back before the sun came up obviously this is outside witness feel Elementary School and youll notice its tough to tell you can tell nonetheless that at least under the street lamps no snow has fallen. Lets put things into motion though and just for the span avenue few hours look at the Winter Wonder lapped left behi the snow has stopped for now. Some of its even start to go melt away. However, weve got more on the way and thats going to really help beef up the totals. In places like berks county where this camera shot was taken from. Now looking at the localized zoom
We have a big accident at university avenue. I showed you this shot earlier. We had westbound completely blocked, eastbound almost completely blocked with this accident. Its a different scene now. We can see theyve pushed most of the vehicles off to the side. It was a multivehicle accident as chopper pans back you see what a tough morning commute it is. This delay stretches for miles and youre not expecting this kind of delay westbound headed towards University City coming off of the walt whitman bridge. Traffic is barely moving because of that accident. The good news is the accident that was blocking all lanes for awhile is off to the side now and eastbound traffic is also getting by so youre stuck in the traffic now but theres light at the end of the tunnel there because theyre allowing it to move at the scene. Lets switch to our Traffic Cameras and you get a different sense of whats happening here. So, heres that jammed traffic on the schuylkill westbound at university. Emergency wo
Rain and flurries right now. We have you covered. Im tracy davidson. And im dray clark. We have issue adfird a first alr the impact. There are now school closings. Bringing you Live Team Coverage on the roads to when the system is moving to where when the snow will stop falling. We begin with first alert meteorologist bill henley. Some people have been rain frg t the greatest threat is in the pennsylvania neighborhoods where its been colder overnight. Thats where youre more likely to find accumulation and some slippery spots. Slippery roads for the morning commute, but improving conditions later today. Allentown has seen steadier snowfall overnight. You can see the live view from allentown shows its still coming down in allentown, the lee high valley and into berks county. Look at the steadier snow in western berks county while reading is getting a break. Dont worry, theres still more ahead. And the rain is actually getting pushed out. Thats not heavy snowfall. Right snowfall in wilmin
Posted northern of the pennsylvania turnpike and this is where we expect the highest the poconos could get 4 to 6 inches of snow. But the timing impacts. Philadelphia northwest snowing until 8 00 in the morning and roads are snowy and slippery. South jersey and delaware starts as rain and changes over to snow at the end and the roads are wet and could be freezing rain ill talk total and what is behind the system during the accuweather forecast. We seem to be getting a lot of rush hour snowfall. Lets switch live to walter perez. Reporter well jim, all is quiet at this hour in west reading a coating or so fell in this region earlier this morning but most of it has since melted away but its not over yet. Round one came through the Lehigh Valley this morning leaving an inch of snow in spots. There was some on the roadways in the Lehigh Valley and up north in the poconos got a little worse. So it did create for slick conditions. But we did have crews out there and crews on shifts throughout
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.