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
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
Temperatures show you in allentown and reading and lancaster, 32 degrees and poconos 27 but philadelphia its still 43 and Atlantic City airport 38 and well above freezing and it will take a while for that column of air to drop below freezing and for the moisture to move in. A Winter Weather advisory is posted for areas west of the pennsylvania turnpike. And the poconos is under a winter storm warning and parts of the poconos could get up to 6 inches of snow and the ski resorts are happy about that. The problem with the system future tracker 6 showing its here in time for the wednesday morning commute. Light snow but even a little bit of snow can cause big problems, the morning rush, definitely philadelphia and areas north and west. Use caution and allow extra time and roads are still snowy and slippery and snowy until 8 00 in the morning and south jersey and delaware it starts as rain and flipped over to snow at the very end at 9 00. Mainly wet and do be careful there there could be sl
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