, im jan carabao, jim donovans off today. Im rahel solomon. Kate up and meisha are keeping an eye on things on yet another brutally cold morning. By the way, happy new year. Happy new year. I havent seen you in a year. Yes, we are looking outside right now and we are talking about the cold and we are seeing water main break, again , after water main break. We will talk about that coming up in a bit. It is not as harsh as it has been but it is so persistent. It is not as harsh as yesterday, it is still below freezing, again today and that will continue to be the theme through the weekend, so, hopefully this isnt going to be, a continuing thing with these water main breaks every single day but that is the deal, storm scan, wide zoom, once more to show you the storm that is starting to finally take shape. Yesterday we had nothing to show you, nothing that started to form, now it is, and because of the cold had plunged so far south, you have got icing in florida. And snow that is trying to
It will make roads tough to treat. Philadelphia schools and diocesan schools are closed today. John rawlins is along the jersey shore,e reyes is furthernd jeff chirico is in delaware and Wendy Saltzman is standing by in Center City Philadelphia. Good morning, it is 4 30 a. M. , january 4. Lets head over to meteorologist david murphy he has the latest track on everything thats going on and karen rogers is helping you with the tough roads. Good morning. Reporter good morning, it is getting tough on the roads. In fact on the way in on route 1, city avenue it was partially snow covered and slow going it kind of depended when you crossed a county line sometimes it was worse or better depending on which district was handling that road coverage. Be careful this morning. We have several Winter Weather advisory and blizzard witnesser. Blister warning in coastal counties in new jersey and delaware. Winter storm warning in philadelphia, and trenton and dover 3 to 6 inches. Less snow in the northe
As we spoke 13 now and it feels like three below. Feels like 4b low zero in philadelphia, 4b low in allentown, wildwood, Atlantic City both feeling below zero and mount pocono dangerous cold frostbite can happen quickly at feels like temperature of 23 degrees below zero. Wind chill alert, wind chill warning has been issued for poconos and areas to the north , through tomorrow, midday, wind chill advice rid here for fail and surrounding suburbs, that goes through midday tomorrow as well. It has been called back and end at noon which is good news , it is in the quite as cold in the afternoon, quite as cold to warrant that wind chill advisory or warning as winds die down. Waking up tomorrow morning depending where you here is what it will feel like. Poconos minus 20 to minus 30. Lehigh valley minus ten or minus 20. City and suburbs minus some below n coastal new jersey and delaware it will feel sub zero all night and tomorrow morning we will head back to normal as we get into next week. W
In philadelphia to 30 degrees below zero up in the poconos. We do not see this kind of cold that often around here. This is a big deal. Right now at 4 00 in the afternoon, our air temperature in philadelphia is 17. The feels like is 1 below zero. Wilmington, delaware, lets see if its any better. Not really. Feels like 1 below here too. Its neighborhood by neighborhood and everywhere is the cold at this hour. 17 debelow in mount pocono. 2 below in reading. And Atlantic City feeling like 2 below zero. Er t want a ski of hours time. G nly t that. What you need to do layer up feels like temperature tonight. Minus 5 to minus 30. Actual air temperatures getting close to record territory. Htt, that wind chill will not get any better. Unfortunately, we still have more cold to go but there is a significant ch way. A january thaw is in the forecast, ill have more on that coming up here in just, guys . The dangerous cold is complicating the cleanup on side streets in philadelphia. Aundrea clineth
10 oclock sunday morning and that wind chill warning remains in effect for the poconos. So, the lowest wind chills tomorrow morning again, even more intense than this morning, most of our viewing area, the wind chill 10 to 15 degrees below zero. The north and west suburbs extending across the Lehigh Valley into the poconos, 15 to 30 degrees below zero and even right along the coast where youre closer to that warm ocean still pretty brutal wind chills five to 10 degrees below zero. So record lows expected the next two nights. The best chance will be sunday morning. Thats when philadelphia will have its coldest morning in 24 years. We start to lift out of it by monday. But then im tracking a wintry mix behind it a big change in our weather pattern and ill talk about that in the sevenday forecast. Jim. Thank you cecily. Lets switch live to ocean city, new jersey, and action News Reporter chad pradelli. Chad, the shore got pummeled yesterday so how goes that tough task of digging out today