Over achieve so to speak with this storm because snow will be coming down for longer duration all night and tomorrow there. Winter weather alert, Winter Weather storm warning for south jersey and southern 23rd of delaware. Purple is Winter Weather advisory for 95 corridor bucks county, montgomery county, chester county, lehigh valley, poconos not included. This is an upside down system for our region. Snow develops tonight. It is already snowing at the shore. It will move, slowly inland, overnight hours, getting in the city by day break. Most of saturday, all day licensing from sun up to sundown the snow will be falling it will taper from west to elater on tomorrow evening. So here without further adue our forecast snow map, coat to go 2 inches in western suburbs two to four in philadelphia and suburbs. Four to six plus down the shore. Cape may county down into portions of sussex county, delaware they could get seven or eight but we will see mixing in the coast and these are for untrea
Virginia right now and you can see the first snow falling across the southern Cape May County, cape may point, down through West Cape May and portions of the delaware beaches seeing snow as we speak as we zoom in. Rest of the region is dry for now but overnight we will continue to see that moisture stream north and east and eventually it will blanket the whole area Winter Weather alerts follow this system up through eastern see game. You can see pink, purple, they are winter storm warnings as we zoom in for our area all of south jersey and southern 23rd of the delaware in the winter storm warning that begins late tonight, philadelphia and surrounding suburbs in the Winter Weather advisory, and, and tonight, your snow time line, snow will develop depending where you are late this evening or overnight tonight but bulk of the storm is through Daylight Hours tomorrow, and then it will taper off tomorrow evening, quick look at our forecast snow map four to six plus inches for south jersey a
Jersey and delaware. Some models have pockets of snow in delaware higher than that. You can see some of the rain changing over to snow down into parts of kent county. What were watching is this giant storm system, again, its very elongated. Its going to take a while to get here. It will be here throughout the day tomorrow as it approaches our area. Watch the temperature profiles, you can see the temperatures still too warm to support all snow in many places. Were seeing that changeover in south delaware and new jersey. Then as temperatures falls, you see by tomorrow morning its up into philadelphia and on up into the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. Steve is going to walk you through some of those snow totals. Well start in south jersey with a closeup look at the neighborhoods is. Thats right. We do have some snow falling, very light levels right now. Our own Ted Greenburg saying light flurries occurring there. The snow will start in south jersey and delaware and will last the longest. A
Into wildwood. So, well talk about what we can expect. The snow will arrive during the overnight hours from the southeast to northwest direction. The steadiest of that snow moves in from 9 00 a. M. To 3 oclock. Highest totals south and east of philadelphia, slushy and slick roads is a big concern as we go throughout the rest of the day. Weve got more details coming up with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Well send it back over you to brian. Melissa thank you. Lets switch live to chad pradelli live at the penndot salt yard in norristown. Chad, our very first live shot of the season there. I guess that means theres getting ready tonight. Reporter yeah, brian, hopefully not many more but a press conference under way as we speak as penndot updates us on its operations for this storm. A little bit of a lull right now but in a few hours, when the flakes begin to fall, things will certainly pick up. Inside the penndot Operations Center all eyes on the roads and the weather radar.
By 10 00 a. M. , its starting to moisten up, were seeing the snowfall, 10 30 a. M. , 11 00 a. M. In the city itself. Lunchtime its snowing through the region, 34 degrees. 3 00 p. M. , still snowing and 33 degrees. The actual air temperature will be above freezing, some melting will be occurring. 5 00 p. M. , 30 degrees, still snowing at 7 00 p. M. The temperature holding a little bit above that freezing mark, thats why weve been talking about the grassy surfaces, seeing more accumulation than anywhere else. Central delaware and southeastern new jersey, i think thats the area still not much have changed with the track we expect to see the heaviest of snowfall, the trickiest snow conditions, i think when youre getting more than a couple of inches of snow youll have it covering the roads even when youre talking about temperatures above freezing. I95 slushy and slick roads. The lehigh and far northwest, mainly wet well see a chance for a refreeze tonight him well talk totals and timing a l