Lucy, it is a dangerous cold stepping outdoors right now. If you have to be outdoors cover your extremities because front bite can set in in less than 30 minutes. Less talk about the polar vortex or the return of the polar vortex right over our area. Temperatures dropping. 16 degrees right now but look at that wind chill. It already feels like 2 degrees below zero in the philadelphia area. So the area temperature yeah, its cold but factor in those winds and take lock what it feels like right now in the pocono mountains. 15 degrees below zero. Feels like 10 below in lancaster lancaster. It already feels like five below in wilmington delaware and three below in atlantic city. So we have wind chill advisories area wide through midday friday. Feeling like 10, 20 below zero. Warnings in the pocono mountains where wind chills could approach 35 degrees below zero. Lets watch the clock and watch how it will feel. Future wind chills you can see by tomorrow morning at 7am in philadelphia it will
If youre taking mass transit today, new Jersey Transit is operating on a normal schedule. Amtrak northeast corridor is operating on a modified schedule. Thats due to the cold weather conditions. Patco is operating on a normal schedule and so is septa. Chris . Definitely a morning to bundle up at the bus stop. This cold weather, of course is causing concern for parents who worry about their kids waiting out there on the school buses. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live for us in center city. Matt, last half hour you talked about all the things that weve come to do to stay warm like layering up and staying dry. Doctors say theres Something Else people should be doing, right . Reporter yeah, absolutely. Of course, it comes down to wearing the layers and keeping them fed. The kids fed, of course. We spoke with some parents yesterday at the bus stop. And they were waiting for their kids to get on the bus. But days like this one have them thinking about the alternatives. We are expecting the windch
Much. 13 at 7 00. By 9 00 16 degrees. And then 18 at lunchtime. Take a closer look at the cold and the weekend weather which is changing, too. That snow and rain moving in on saturday. But right now if youre moving out the door first alert traffic reporter jillian mele is watching the roads. Morning, jillian. Good morning to you, bill. Route 422, thats the eastbound side near trooper road. We have a couple drivers out there but really no big problems the entire length right now. 76 is clear. So is the blue route. If youre taking mass transit this morning, heres whats happening. New jersey transit, no problems. Operating on a normal schedule today. Amtrak northeast corridor is operating on a modified schedule today and tomorrow. Thats because of the cold weather conditions. Patco is operating on a normal schedule. And so is septa. Tracy . Its one of those days kids really have to bundle up. The brutal cold and wind has parents worried. So nbc 10s matt delucia is live in center city with
After walking for a period of time in temperatures below 20 degrees. Its more difficult for them to breathe walking in a direction where the wind is blowing at you. If you can go with the wind at your back it makes it easier and safer for you that way. Experts say if youre traditionally a mouth breather you might want to convert. If you breathe through your nose physiologically we tend to heat up the air through our nose and provide more moisture to it so the air is not as dry. The doctor says this may be the time to use that ugly scarf. Keeping yourself covered, keeping something over your face, nose and mouth makes it easier for you to breathe in those conditions. Reporter and, of course, whether you have a compromised condition like copd or asthma or you dont, just staying out of all of this is probably the best recourse. Live im doug shimell, nbc10 news. Thank you. As dangerous cold moves into our area, the United Gas Improvement Company is asking certain customers to conserve gas
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