The coast taking aim at the northeast. Its a much different story on the west coast. Those outofcontrol killing a woman and firefighters had a fighting chance but they could pick up again today and Marci Gonzalez joins us from Ventura County, california. Good morning. Reporter tom and paula, good morning. That as residents of this neighborhood and the others are waiting to be allowed to return. Some coming home to just about utter destruction like this. The garage here where you see this scorched car, this washer and dryer, otherwise indiscernible from the rest of the house and right now there is that ongoing fight to protect other communities. Overnight firefighters relentlessly taking on these raging flames. When you see that, all that orange glow, thats scary. Reporter on a mission to maintain the progress theyve made battling the wildfires ravaging Southern California for days. This fire is dwarfing these firefighters. Look at that. Reporter that massive thomas fire growing to more
Neighborhood but didnt take much muscle to clear cars of a few inches of snow. Lets get get to meteorologist Melissa Magee, a little warmer but gusty wind did make it feel cold at times we had wind in the 20 to 25 d even though our high was in philadelphia 40 and it certainly felt colder then that throughout the afternoon. Right now in philadelphia we are coming in at 37. Thirtyfour for allentown. Same thing in reading. Poconos 26 degrees. Down in cape may 38, 33 degrees in dover. Now factor in the winds and wind chill and it feels like 28 in the city. Teens in the poconos. Sixteen. Feeling like 28 in dover. Currently wind chill number in beach haven in at 32. Satellite six with action radar showing we have got mostly cloudy sky across the region. We are tracking lake effect snow down wind of the lake, and eventually a weak upper level low will ride on through , as we go throughout the rest of tonight and there could be light precipitation, well north of philadelphia up in the mountain
Story on action news at 5 00. Wasnt bad today, brace yourselves, arctic blast heading our way this week. Lets begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee, melissa. Czar and rick we have had changes for start of our weekend on saturday with plenty of snowfall, first snowfall of the season not as that cold is settling in cross the delaware and lehigh valleys. High today in philadelphia 40 degrees. Right now in the city 37. Thirtyfour for allentown and reading. Same thing in lancaster. Poconos 26. 39 degrees in cape may. Now to factor in wind chill we have had wind gusting at 25 miles an hour, throughout the day, so you factor that in on your skin and feels like 28 in the city. The teens in the poconos. Thirtyone in trenton. Current wind chill in millville is 27 degrees. Satellite six with action radar showing you that storm we have had yesterday is well out to, well away from new england, as well in the atlantic and we are tracking a clipper system producing lake effect snow showers down wind
Allentown. 42 degrees for atlantic city. Lets get back down to new castle delaware, bob kelly, has a great time on this monday morning. Lot at gang new castle delaware up with us bright and early this morning, look who has arrived, william penn pen has arrived. Good morning, william penn pen hold on your second wife. Your second wife hanna has been here all morning long telling us some stories. Im Caesar Rodney then. Well, we have some gossip, going on and then well take care of that. We will take the jam cam on the victory machine morning anything that looks wet, could be icy, so be careful stepping outside on a monday, blue route we will go right near schuylkill they got rid of the construction we are ready for rush hour faulkland road shut down at new port gap road from an overnight accident with down wires. Lets go to northeast philadelphia i95 at cottman avenue seeing volume pop for beginning of the morning rush hour. What is so cool about where we are at penns place, traders cove
Bands of some heavier snow across parts of south jersey where you can see kind of that pinkish color near hammonton, near medford lakes, Atlantic City, lbi, this is where were getting more moderate snow. Generally were looking at one to 3 inches of snow. So, its not a lot of snow, its the timing during the evening commute. Its affecting visibilities. You can see philadelphia and trenton visibility less than a mile. Atlantic city airport visibility less than a mile and a half but you can see how things are really clearing out. Reading visibility up to 8 miles so this is a very quick hit. The problem, though, temperatures have been stuck in the 20s all day long, so any flake is sticking on the roads. Its 25 in philadelphia. Trenton 23. Reading 22 and the north and west suburbs, temperatures will be dropping down into the teens tonight. So, do be careful with icy spots on the roads even after the snow ends. So, this is what to expect tonight. That snow will that continue clearing from the