Windchill advisories from the poconos until noon tomorrow. It feels close to 10 to is a degrees below zero for the skiers and snowboarders for the holiday week. And tomorrow morning the rush brisk and breezy and air temperatures 10 if the suburbs and the city 15 degrees and dont Pay Attention to the numbers and look at the windchills it feels like 5 below and 5 above tomorrow morning. We chat about the cold and the weekend coming up in the full accuweather forecast. More than a dozen people were left homeless by a massive blaze and brian has the details for us. The fire broke out in the Delaware County Apartment Building and that helps out all the residents displaced in the cold temperatures at this time. John rawlins live at the scene in brookhaven. Reporter well, by all account this was a fast moving fire and gutted the third floor and the roof. Or at least much of the third floor we should say and at least one unit on the second floor as for a cause Officials Say this is still just
Good morning everyone, 5 30 a. M. , december 28. Tam is off, Alicia Vitarelli joins us. Reporter matt pellman in for karen rogers, good chilly morning, guys. Reporter the more the merrier, pile them on. Reporter the other point im trying to make is cover up as much skin as you can. If youre outside for any period of time it could be a day where you get frostbite. Its a day where we have lots of sun, but it wont help. 15 degrees in philadelphia. 14 in trenton. 14 in wilmington. Just 12 in allentown. 11 reading and lancaster. 13 in millville. 18 down the shore in cape may. It is the wind and what its doing with the cold and the windchills. Feels like 3 in philadelphia. 2 in trenton. Zeron allentown and wilmington. One below zero in reading. 4 in millville. 9 in cape may. Even that is very brutal. As we go through the day temperatures will stay on the cold side. In fact well be in the low 20s this afternoon. High of 23 around 3 00 p. M. 19 by 11 00 spending a good portion of the day in th
He was rescued from a freezing ditch. Almost. S crying now, abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Jonathan first, we are on storm watch. It is freezing outside. Oncy bitter cold and snow the way, all adding up to make a new years one of the coldest in decades. Jonathan we have team covers, including a look at people braving the bone chilling cold, but we start with chief meteorologist bill kelly. How low will it go . Into tonight we will be the mid20s, one of the warmer nights. What we are focusing on this evening is the snow, tracking to the west. That is the blue on the map, the darker shades where it is heavier. Most of that to the west and further northwest. A widespread Winter Weather the area, not the d. C. Metro right now. Frederick county, washington andty, Allegheny County Garrett County to the west, that is where the Winter Weather advisory is currently come in effect tonight right now until noon tomorrow. They will probably take that down earlier. Gaithersburg germantown, hager
Were here at the d. C. Department of public works storm team 4 command center. The employees will be looking at these monitors. There are nine of them. If you notice, theyll sometimes go to black and what they are doing, this is realtime live video from major intersections throughout the district. For example, we have florida avenue, bening road, pennsylvania avenue, first street and potomac avenue southeast. Around 8 00, that is when the snow table will send out the trucks to pretreat the roads with salt brine and then 200 trucks will be deployed. If youre out and about, stay away. Give these guys and women working out there time and room so that they can get t make the roads safer for all of us. Youre now going to hear from the d. C. Department of public works director. Lets hear what he has to say. We have had very dangerously low temperatures. Any amount of precipitation can create ice and black ice, whether its half an inch tomorrow or, like i said, it can affect traffic. Reporter
With the details for us. Really the story all morning lock, flood advisories, in and out of effect because the pop up showers, thunderstorms coming through in such tiny localize the clusters as they move through the Delaware Valley we have to see updates coming out from the National Weather service to sort of just go along, follow the wet w err errupting out there. At the moment, we start things off with quick view of storm scan3, thats where you are going to find the action packed obviously here, we do have quite a bit of cloud to ground lightning coming through with some of the thunderstorms, dow want to is her know very quickly for you and just show you whats taking place right now across portions of salem county, then right on in toward atlantic, burlington counties here, if we do little year i, see how many lightning strikes are many coming in, what we find thus far were finding athlete with this fresh round of thunder, lightning up to 58, 59 strikes coming through. And they conti