After being conjoined for two years. We begin this half hour with the cold weather that gives us reason to pile on the layers. We have sky 6 hd cameras over center city. A sunny friday but its not helping to warm things up much. Melissa magee is here with a first check of the accuweather forecast. That is a pretty heavy coat melissa. Dont do what i did, i forgot my gloves, here is part of the reason why, check out the current wind gust, gusting as high as 31 Miles Per Hour in reading and 29 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia and a gust in the poconos of 29 and same for millville and atlantic city. And the gust in beach haven 24 Miles Per Hours. That makes a difference on your skin. It feels like 13 in the position and feels like 27 in philadelphia and millville 27 degrees and feeling like 24 for both reading and lancaster at this hour. Here is stormtracker 6 live double scan radar you can see we have the lakeeffect snow showers setting up down wind of the lakes and they stay well away from
Winds off the lakes. Theres a bigger storm system entering the pacific northwest. Thats the system that will bring us a messy monday morning commute. It will pull up a lot of warm air. So, what this means by monday morning, it will mainly be a rain events. However, when that storm system starts, really north of the pennsylvania turnpike it likely will begin as snow before that changeover to rain. Ill talk more specifically how much snow before that changeover and then track another arctic front on the way coming up in the full accuweather 7day forecast. Jim. All right cecily. Lets switch thrive action News Reporter jeff chirico in center city philadelphia. Jeff a code blue now in effect in the city. How is city hall trying to protect Homeless People tonight . Reporter jim, and this is the first code blue of the season and it is potentially deadly for the citys 700 Homeless People. Now, i just spoke with the head of the citys office of Homeless Services who says teams are working as we
This is in the overbrook neighborhood. Not enough to stick to the ground but that may change by end of the weekend and beginning of the week. Lets get the details from the first alert meteorologist krystal klei. Krystal . The issue thats first alert, because we are looking at some areas seeing accumulating snow sunday night into monday morning. Heres a look at the first alert. Lehigh valley, berks county, through the pennsylvania suburbs, particularly the upper portions, Northern Edge of the suburbs where we may see accumulating snow, theres a time line. It starts sunday afternoon in the Lehigh Valley. Into the night we will see the line move in. That will last into monday morning. Then mostly turn to rain. What we are looking at is the possibility of some accumulation of snow changing to wintry mix, then to rain. Wintry mix the big concern. Maybe that changeover in the morning commute, meaning icy roadways north and west of philadelphia. Here are temperatures now. Compare to what you