Into wildwood. So, well talk about what we can expect. The snow will arrive during the overnight hours from the southeast to northwest direction. The steadiest of that snow moves in from 9 00 a. M. To 3 oclock. Highest totals south and east of philadelphia, slushy and slick roads is a big concern as we go throughout the rest of the day. Weve got more details coming up with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Well send it back over you to brian. Melissa thank you. Lets switch live to chad pradelli live at the penndot salt yard in norristown. Chad, our very first live shot of the season there. I guess that means theres getting ready tonight. Reporter yeah, brian, hopefully not many more but a press conference under way as we speak as penndot updates us on its operations for this storm. A little bit of a lull right now but in a few hours, when the flakes begin to fall, things will certainly pick up. Inside the penndot Operations Center all eyes on the roads and the weather radar.
After it will reach the Lehigh Valley its the first snow of the season and the accumulations will actually climb to substantial levels in some areas and so welcome to winter 2017. It is friday night and the big story on action news tonight is our Winter Weather advisory and storm warning, it is a double dose of Winter Weather, we have action News Reporters Trish Hartman and dann cuellar straked out in strategic locations but first lets get the late word from accuweather and cecily tynan. Double scan live showing plenty of moisture streaming up from the south and a lot has been missing to the south and what is happening low pressure developing off the coast of South Carolina and once that develops it will pivot this so the moisture moves in land and encounters the cold air and produces the snow and Cape May County its been snowing there kind of onandoff at different rates since about 3 00 this afternoon, about an inch and a half and that location notice dover delaware also some light sn
6abc. Com live in norristown im dann cuellar channel six action news. Be sure to wake up with action news tomorrow for updated snow totals and conditions on the roads and action news mornings begins at 5 00 right here on channel six and keep up with any changes to this weekends wintry forecast right on your phone or tablet and includes real time views from Storm Tracker six the 6abc app is a Free Download for your mobile device. Pennsylvania state police are investigating a turnpike tragedy. A driver was killed when his vehicle was hit by flying debris this morning. The victim has been identified as 57yearold Gregory Leiber of lang horn and went through the windshield and hit leeb leiber and happened at 11 00 this morning and debris went airborne after being hit by a truck in the westbound lanes and looking for the driver of that truck. A Philadelphia Police officer was injured by a bullet while responding to a call about a dog attack in north philadelphia this afternoon. The incident
Weekend. Lets go over to karen rogers, a big day today, first snow of the season. Reporter if you believe it in maryland they have gotten 7 inches of snow. I was on the phone with accuweather. Were looking at satellite and radar. Were looking at the bulk of the moisture off the coast, were getting clipped by it in some areas. The snow is slow to arrive. Storm tracker 6 live down scan showing rain off the coast and snow shower or two as you move inward just a little bit. I want you to take a closer look at Storm Tracker 6 live. You can see light snow flurries and snowfall in gettysburg and snow in millville a speck of it in glassboro and surf city, but were basically dry through the region right now him were talking about a slower arrival of the snow time. Sitting at the freezing mark in Lehigh Valley. 32 in allentown. 33 in trenton. Above freezing in the city itself. 34 in millville. 31 in cape may. Its snowing in Cape May County. They have a dusting on the ground, testers below freezi
All along the coast, and this morning, we do have crew at the shore, as we get ready for a snowy saturday. All across the region. Today is saturday, december. Good morning, everyone, im jan carabeo. Lets get right over to the forecast. Heres meteorologist, Chelsey Ingram with eyewitness weather good saturday morning, chelsey , busy day for you. Really is busy day, busy morning. The snow really in itself hasnt arrived here in philadelphia, but i promise is you, january, it is on the way and moving in later this morning and this afternoon. So, just have a little bit of patience. As youre starting out your saturday. Let me take you now to storm scan3, show you whats going on. We have a lot of dry air in place across the greater philadelphia area. Dew points, really low, actually in the upper teens, so, we want to have to wait for that dry air to be erroded before we see some saturation happening in the air column, and some snow beginning to fall. Actually hit the grounds. That is going to