Big story on action news tonight is snow overnight, in the delaware and Lehigh Valleys. The chances are excellent that it could make for a difficult commute in the morning. Meteorologist cecily tynan is live at the big board with Storm Tracker six live double scan radar. Jim, looking at Storm Tracker six live and thinking hey is what the big deal. The almost looks like last night. We had rain. That is the same system as last night. The system is backing up to the west. But on a broader view you see what is happening a wave of low pressure is developing along this front. It is off of the coast of the carolinas. That is where we have moisture. The moisture is in place. We need the cold air. What a storm like this can do is called dynamic cooling. It can pull down colder a air from higher in the at the months fear and that will be changing over the rain to snow in the overnight hours. But because of that the National Weather has posted a Winter Weather advisory for most of our viewing are
Going. This is county line and doylestown road the commuters are making their way through. Lets go over to david murphy good morning. Reporter the storm is causing mainly wet roads this morning the snow fall will put accumulations on grassy surfaces sidewalks, as well. If youre driving around and you see slush developing slow it down. Every now and then you get a viability problem. This will get closer to the shore and youll get more snow along the coast. The snow gets off the coast around 10 00 a. M. , 11 00 a. M. Temperatures are above freezing, 34 in millville. 33 in trenton. 33 in wilmington. There will be close enough where theres slush on sidewalks and perhaps road surfaces, with yesterdays warmth and the Cool Temperatures youre looking at mainly wet roads. The areas where you see the cooler temperatures is the best chance of slush. Cloudy skies between 6 00 a. M. And 8 00 a. M. Rain and wet snow. Mostly wet snow across the region right now. 35 degrees by 6 00. 34 by 8 00 a. M. W
30s, generally around the board, 31 mount pocono, the colds he is spot at least on this particular slew of observations, but the temperatures are very marginal. Soap, while the grounds may at least be a little bit warmer, where youre not going to see the snow, initially, stick to the roads, youve got the coal enough air in place to see the change over. So it is one of those mixed bag type of scenarios there is morning, heavy wet snow falling down. And it will have a chance to accumulate. But again, not necessarily on the road. Although if at some part it my have a chance it leave a coating specially through the side street. Through the afternoon windy, but actually dry out quickly here. You will see some sun before it drops over the horizon, but later tonight temperatures are set to drop off once more, so i expect you will see some icing take place once more. Meanwhile, we expect temperatures to hit the low mid 40s recalling around the region as a whole, i call this earlier, tail of tw
Just matter of hours. It doesnt look like any of us does going to escape any of th this. Live look at route 42 in bellmawr, new jersey. Its going to be messy morning. People out in center city tonight wearing anything from heavy winter coats to sweatshirts and vests but youll want something warm when you walk out that door tomorrow. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Kathy orr is working to nail down what we can expect. Kathy. You know this is all about timing. Its not a lot of snow obvious obviously. Its just two, three maybe 4inches in some spots but its the timing during the Early Morning hours. Right now were tracking rain. Theres no snow out here. Its whats going to happen overnight that will change this over to snow that will complicate things. Rain expected right through the midnight hour. There may be some gaps in the precipitation during the midnight hour 1 00 a. M. But then well be seeing this moving in and changing over to snow. Winter weather advisory in effect for
Continues through five, six, 7 00 a. M. And then it ends from west to east by about 10 00 oclock i think this will be moving offshore. So thats the good news. During the morning rush, this is what we expect. Temperatures in the low to mid 30s. We are going to see a wet slushy snow and it will be sticking to your tires. Some slick roads. Most of it should be accumulat accumulating on grassy surfaces and reduced visibility especially in south jersey. Where we see potentially some higher accumulations a coasting to an inch to the north and west of philadelphia. Possible al coating in the Lehigh Valley one to 2inches through philadelphia to the south and east and in this area, southern burlington, atlantic, extending into ocean three to as much as 4inches of snow if all goes according to plan. Well continue to take new information in the weather sent. Update throughout the broadcast anding back to talk about more snow on tuesday. For now well send it back to you. Theres a lot to talk about