Steven fisher is in ven nis, california, not too far from a the u infer no. Reporter the same cannot be be said across Southern California. The wildfires continue to burn. More people being forced to e c evacuate their homes and the air quality around here beginning to become a huge concern. The fight against the flames is hand to hand comment. Across Southern California. Theres nothing anyone could do. The rolling flames racing through more than 100,000 acres taking with them hundreds of homes. Cars, power lines and everything in their path pushed by severe winds gust iing at times to hurricane strength. This is a point you have to pack up and go. More than 200,000 families have been e evacuated. Need to get out of here. Reporter scrambling to safety. You can see thes coming up. That was it. We were out of here. We didnt take anything. Now as some return to their burned out neighborhoods. For so many theres nothing left. Thats just pure devastation to see your familys home just gone.
The temperatures will be at or above freezing for the event. Hazardous travel, slipping and sliding saturday. Not today, no. Clearing skies for the suburbs and for the lehigh valley. Leading to colder temperatures. Look at the clouds lingering in delaware and south jersey. The clouds will fill back in during the day. And then the wet weather you see to the south, thats rain in the warmer areas. The cold that we have pushing into alabama, mississippi, and georgia, that will produce snow for them and for us tomorrow. Right now if youre heading out, plainold cold. 29 in the suburbs. 36 degrees in philadelphia. The clouds will linger. Sunshine in the lehigh valley, up to 38 this afternoon. Well below normal for delaware, four degrees. 40 degrees for new jersey. For philadelphia, 41. The first snowflakes and raindrops potentially late this afternoon and into the early evening hours at the shore. The temperatures should be above freezing. Im not expecting accumulations today. Ill break it do
Of this in his first alert weather forecast. Bill . An inch in san antonio, parts of our area tomorrow will see an inch. There are some neighborhoods that will see more. Weve issued a first alert for snow for the pennsylvania suburbs, philadelphia, new jersey, and delaware. The greatest amounts are expected in south jersey and parts of delaware. The farther inland you go, the less centers for disease cont during the day tomorrow. During the day saturday from midnight to 8 00. After sunrise, this is when it will spread inland. Most of delaware and south jersey will be affected. Accumulating snow, but its going to be limited in many spots to the grass and colder surfaces like car tops. Less likely on the roads. There will be some slushy accumulation, and the highest accumulation on those colder surfaces will range from one to four inches. We may be in for some hazardous travel during the day on saturday. This morning, the nearest snow is some lakeeffect snow to the north. Thats not going
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
Jersey shore. Between 2 00 and the morning and 7 00 thats when philadelphia will see flurries and light snow developing. This is going to be a long lived event, tonight through sunday night. About 18 hours of potential snow. It will be light snow, steady snow. Were not expecting thundersnow and it is going to be a wet snow that comes down. A light snowfall but a wet snow that comes down. Slippery travel. Well see icy roads on the back side of this entire thing. Heres a look at whats going on with this right now. You can see the snow already moving through southern delaware, lewis, dover, you have rain. Smyrna, rain, wilmington, rain, even into west chester, the suburbs seeing light showers right now. Cape may, we are looking and through wildwood up to atlantic city, were looking at some light snow, this is melting when it hits the ground. We go into new jersey, you can see deerfield, maybe light showers there. Salem, youre dry. Bridgeton, light showers. Were not looking at a bunch of s