Are both off. Lets check forecast with katie and traffic with pat in for meisha, good morning. Heres a traffic you, get in the car turn onat and dont getut for eight hours just stay in there. My gosh it is so brutally cold outside. That image of the franklin fountain bless my mind im not shock by it at a but it is pretty impressive, i guess is the word. Look at these temperatures. This is the value you want to go buy. It is brutal outside like single digits, almost every where but sub zero in wilmington for example more like 14 below zero near mount pocono. Thlly cold conditions obviously and do you need to make sure you bundle up adequately as you door. Wind chill advisory several hours until noon time. Youve got to account for th it is not terribly strong wind but enough that you have toabsolutely net is it. So tha it m you could feel, in as cold as 20 below zero. Storm scan quiet for now and it will stay that way for yet another day, in the sunshine but were not breaking out of the
Carabeo. Jim and rahel are off today. This is just the start of the frigid forecast and this weekend we may even be able to see some snowflakes out there. Meteorologist Kate Fehlinger is live in the Weather Center this noon monitoring what it could feel like for your new years celebration, katie. It will be brutally cold right through that time frame, jan. We were feeling as cold as below zero in a lot of outlying suburbs to the north and west. It felt at the worst as cold as 20 below zero in the poconos. Understandably that was a sewn that had a wind advisory which has gone out of effect but it hasnt gotten a lot better even since then. Let me show you currently just the wind speeds. You know, this is the x factor. This is what you need to account for when you walk out the door. So i could show you the actual air temperatures but id rather show you the feelslike values because this is what you want to use as a gauge when you walk out the door. You know, it feels even still like its 12
Degrees by 9 00 oclock with that bitter cold, bundle up at 11 00 temperatures dropping to 13. It will feel like the Single Digits once again tonight. I will have more in the full forecast but for now back to you. Chelsea, thank you. While we think we have it bad imagine how philadelphians felt 200 years ago during the coldest winters. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt has Historical Perspective as he joins us live from Franklin Square in center city with more on that. David. Reporter big light show going on right now. People outside. It doesnt seem to bother them single digit wind chills going on right now. I have to tell you it made me think about going back in time and thinking about these cold winters during the revolutionary war. It feels like the Single Digits in philadelphia, and it is not letting up. These are the faces of the american revolution, images of men and women who lived during the brutal winters of the late 1770s, in pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware. The peri
Effect until 1 00 a. M. Tonight it feels more like 12 degrees below zero. As we head throughout the evening just keep in mind wind chills will be in the Single Digits we will continue with the bitter cold by 9 00 with the mercury dropping to around 15 degrees, 13 by 11 00. As i mentioned it will get colder as we head in the start of 2018, plus we have a chance for snow heading our way this weekend we will have details coming up in just a bit. Thank you. If you have been outside today you know how harsh that bitter blast feels like especially when it hits your face. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is live at Franklin Square fountain with a look at the impact of the sudden cold. It doesnt look good, david. Reporter yeah, you know, i know what it feels like. We had in idea there would be a light show but Perfect Timing for tv, little nut cracker, Holiday Festival in Franklin Square. Reason we came is to show you this frozen fountain. It thousand dollars out a couple hours ago and sta
The morning, chelsea. Right now a temperature around 17 degrees in philadelphia, 13 wilmington and checking in at 1 degree mount pocono and 11 degrees in allentown. And we dont have much in the way of winds its just enough wind to make it feel more uncomfortable outside. Winds coming in 6 miles an hour out of west and philadelphia and its making it feel like Single Digits already in the city. Feels like 9 in philly and three in allentown and 16 below zero in mount pocono a the lot of places dropping into Single Digits. For reading, lancaster, and wilmington overnight and in philadelphia. So, were going to keep with this better cold blast as we head into the overnight hours tonight and then im tracking light snow on saturday behind that system another reinforc reinforcing shot as we ring in the new year. Details coming up. Chelsea, mummers are voicing concern over the bitterly cold weather they say it will adversely impact the parade on monday. Live in center yety tonight with current p