up for the weekend. the first is the snow, got a first alert out for that starting tomorrow morning. followed by brutal cold and that goes till tuesday 8:00 a.m. everything s cold all week. but some are colder than others and more dangerous than others. a coating to two inches of snow sticking on untreated surfaces. then the subzero wind chills that are coming in. just to give you an idea, it s 12 right now. by new year s morning it feels like five below. that s a 17 degree difference. 17 degrees colder than it is right now. imagine that. there s the snow on the radar. it s obviously moving in. it will not be with us this evening, it will be with us tomorrow morning. and it s a fairly large area, but it s not all that heavy. it s not going to last all day. we re talking, again, about a coating to two inches of snow. but it s that slippery type because of the cold roads, it s a flurry snow, it will be blowing around in the wind. we ll talk more about when the coldest of the co
we re bringing you live team coverage tonight from philadelphia to berks county and atlantic city. we ll begin here in studio where it s a little warmer. glenn, first snow and then more brutal cold? as low as those feels like temperatures went in the core of this cold blast, it s going to be worse by new year s day. up here in camelbin back and poconos, it s going to be feel like it s 20 below zero on new year s morning. the first alert covers the entire area as we ve been saying. it s a double whammy here. the snow part starts early saturday morning and the worst of the bitter cold ends about 8:00 a.m. on tuesday. subzero wind chills through much of the area with this cold air mass. the amount of snow, not as big a deal as the slipperiness. it s moving fairly quickly, it s a sure bet it s coming in. it s a sure bet it s not a major storm, but it may only take an inch to cause some roads to be slippery. there it is, 7:00 a.m. it s just getting started. and once it does star
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, let s see if it s any better. not really. feels like 1 below here too. it s 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 hour s 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, i ll have more on that coming up here in just, guys? the dangerous cold is complicating the cleanup on side streets in philadelphia.
over the roads. let s take a look at our camera at the battleship new jersey in camden. the view across an icy delaware river. make sure you layer up in this hypothermia and frostbite can happen quickly. taking you to center city now, this is the view of broad street. the next 60 hours in many neighborhoods will be brutally cold. we can t say it enough. stop and take a look at first alert radar now. tonight the feels like temperature could be as low as 30 belown parts of our region. it looks like a tundra out there. steve sosna kicks off our team coverage. it s been years since we ve experienced cold air like this? when you look at the consecutive days, we haven t seen cold like this since the early 80s. unbelievable stuff. it s not just your imagination. it is way colder than normal. that s why we continue the first alert for the entire viewing area. we continue it through 8:00 a.m. on sunday. the reason why, we mentioned 30 degree below wind chills in the elevations i
the west, look at all the snow that s coming through the ohio valley. this is not a snow event for us, but the shades of pink is showing freezing precipitation, wintry mix, that could be on the way for us. through the evening we ll be watching those temperatures stay steady. we re going to be watching periods of heavy rain and maybe a little bit of a mix for the lehigh valley and berks county before dawn tomorrow. that s when the temperatures plummet and that s part two of the story, glenn has that. here we are in the 60s, near midnight tonight, and then when you get up in the morning, wow, we re going to be seeing dramatic changes across the area. right now, we still hav warmth at 62 in philadelphia. 64 in allentown. it set a record earlier today. mount pocono set a record. look at all these places in the 60s. a little bit cooler right near the beaches with the wind coming in off the cool ocean. you can see the temperatures all the way through the night, 60 or above. there