At times. Its doing so right now. I showed you a shot a minute ago and police hadnt arrived on the accident scene yet. They were kind of stuck in the traffic there in the backlog but we can see now police, several police officers, emergency workers all responding to the scene. It looks to be at least three vehicles as i look at this. A few vehicles here and im not sure if thats one or two cause its kind of dark right there. We can see theyre currently blocking all lanes on the schuylkill westbound as emergency workers come to the scene to deal with this. This is westbound schuylkill at University Avenue. Our breaking news. A big accident involving several vehicles blocking all lanes and now we see emergency workers at the scene, some of them still in the backlog here trying to get there. Looks like we have an ambulance here as well trying to deal with this scene blocking all lanes on the schuylkill westbound at university. Traffic at a standstill. Were seeing speeds crawl along on the
And the alert we have in place really the focal point is tonight and in through wednesday morning. Lets go ahead and take you to the Weather Center and theres a Winter Weather advisory in effect today, gradually going into effect in the poconos and then down toward the far northern suburbs and then later this afternoon starting to kick in in these counties closer to philadelphia, northern and western Chester County and the northern halves of Montgomery County and bucks county. This is where most of our snow is going to arrive. It will be a light snow but travel conditions in these areas later today and tonight as it starts to build in will be the worst that well see across the region. 30 degrees currently in philadelphia, not nearly as cold this morning. 27 degrees in trenton. 28 in allentown, 29 in reading and millville and 27 in cape may. And theres a little bit of a wind out there but not a big wind. So, were talking a wind chill in philadelphia, 22 degrees. Winds down overnight fro
Good afternoon in the news, round one of todays snow mostly hit the north and west and a second round is on its way and more folks are in its path. We have the detail kocoming up. Now you see them now you dont. The eagles playoff tickets soldout this morning. And the accuweather alert has a series of snow storms moving through the area, the first wave has mostly melt add way this afternoon but the next wave tonight could leave several inches for us. Sky 6 hd showing you Philadelphia International airport at lunch time. Its a cloudy afternoon dry out there mostly but that could change in just a few hours from now. Meteorologist, david murphy has the first check of your forecast. We have some of that snow earlier this morning. Its gone for the most part. Well talk about that in a moment. There is a Winter Weather advisory extended for the rest of today and into wednesday morning. In the northern and western suburbs including reading and the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. These counties,
Comes that precipitation as it works its way in overnight from the west noun pushing all the way over to the east. Want to give you a look at Storm Tracker6 live double scan and well show you exactly where this line s the western suburbs are looking at snow. Some of it highlighted in Brighter Shades of gray up in allentown and back to the west of reading. Still fairly significant snow and you are putting some accumulation down there at least several inches maybe a little more in some spots that. Darker shade of gray in Chester County is the lighter snow but even there some accumulation on roads and in philadelphia you can see how were getting very close now to that changeover from rain to snow. This is pretty much what we expected and it doesnt look like its going to be a big accumulation in philadelphia by any stretch but right now we do have some icy patches developing. One was actually in our parking lot outside as i stepped out of my vehicle a little while ago. Do be careful of tha
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.