We see bone chilling temperatures and dangerous windchill as we usher in the new year. Im walter perez. The big news is the cold air moving into the area. The forecast moves from uncomfortable to dangerous. Adam joseph is tracking conditions. He joins us with the first check of the forecast. It was tuesday afternoon when we first noted the plunging temperatures. The coldest is flooding in with afternoon highs on the average of 21degrees below normal and colder air set to arrive than this end of the sevenday forecast next friday. Right now, nine in philadelphia, nine in new york city. Buffalo, eight below. Binghamton five below zero. We see the before the numbers in the delaware and Lehigh Valley tonight and monday morning. The snow from earlier today, under an inch to three inches of snow early this morning. The clear sky is taking over and dominating the sky the next couple of days. Even with full sunshine, heres your windchill tracker 14 hours or so, midnight now through noontime tom
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Across the area inch and a half to three and a half inches and one out liar Atlantic City close to five inches of fluffy snow. Same in king of prussia and delco picking up 3 and north east philly three inches of saturday snowfall. Quiet conditions right now and flurries passing through the big apple. Otherwise well keep it quiet precipitationwise throughout the overnight period. And snow and ice an the ground tonight. Do watch out for areas of black ice. Overnight tonight and even really through much of the day tomorrow because road salt is lessee infective at 20 degrees or colder while temperatures in the teens overnight tonight and for a good chunk of tomorrow of Course Plaque ice difficult to see so be sure to use extreme caution and then we have one of our coldest new years days on record in store. And the coldest ever back in 1918 when it was only 16 degrees and forecast high for monday 19 degrees coldest in 100 years and this is rare cold on only 12 occasions since 1800s have we
The bitter cold is here. You do have to dress differently than yesterday. Its cold as ice and thats what we have for you. It is numbing outside and, again, you need to dress for that wind. That wind will make these numbers seem much colder. Actual air temperature 15 in philadelphia now. 16 millville. 12 in blue bell. Allentown, 1 degree in the poke yoes. 18 degrees in wildwood. Feels like temperatures, 5 degrees in wildwood. 3 degrees in philadelphia. 12 in blue bell. 16 in the poconos today. You get the feeling here its not going to be one of our warmer days. 0 to 7 degrees for much of the day des temperature readings in the 20s and upper teens. Dress in layers at the eagles game. A lot of you will be tailgating having a good time. Be prepared for it and adequately hydrated. Tonight low temperatures falling. 7 in philadelphia. 5 in coatesville. Ill walk you through the mummers day forecast. The upcoming first week of 2017. Rosemary . Braving the extreme elements at the linc this after
Steve . If youre going outside to buy a Lottery Ticket or the eagles game today or out for festivities tonight, you need to take into account the cold. The entire viewing area. No one is escaping it now through tuesday. This is the second part of our first alert that we issued back on friday and this is for the dangerous cold. 20 below zero, feels like temperatures in the poconos. 15 below, feels like temperatures in the lehigh valley. 10 below in our suburbs and 5 to 10 below in philadelphia this morning. You see a vivid and Crystal Clear image. We have coal temperatures. A live look from the Comcast Center and here are the actual air temperatures at 6 00. Its 14 in trenton. Its 17 in dover. 16 in philadelphia and 11 in lancaster. This arctic blast is how it shapes up today. The all air temperature climbing to about 20 degrees around 1 00 or 2 00 this afternoon but the feels like temperature, note that. Never gets above 7 degrees today. So thats the temperature that you need to dress