Spread on the platform i stand on because it is icy on the terrace. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows you the source of the problem as we did have overnight precipitation and some of it is clearing through the Northern Areas and areas east of philadelphia. We see a lot of blue out there because surface temperatures beneath the precipitation is cold enough to support a freezeup on road surfaces and sidewalks, and places like the terrace where i do my report. We have a Winter Weather advisory today tonight and into 6 00 a. M. Tuesday morning because of any of these light bands of precipitation coming through encountering sub freezing temperatures at the surface and freezing up. There might be sleet mixing in at times, as well. 31 degrees in allentown. 29 in trenton, 3 in wilmington and millville. A word to the wise, spotty light precipitation today. Temperatures are near freezing. Even though it looks like rain on the windshield, slow down because there could be a freeze up. Well ha
Public works having done a pretty good job of keeping the salt down overnight. As you can tell a lot of granular traction material. Were on chipawa driver here in a suburb getting ready to turn onto russert road. It was snow overnight, ice over snow. Most of the School Districts in poconos and northern hee lie valleys and northampton counties closed for day. I talked to the stroutsduring School District and he said theyre on snow day six or seven and last year there were about 17 snow days. Theyll get out later. Graduation will push back to the last day of school probably the second week of june. He said much rather error on the side of caution now than perhaps, have regrets later on. We spent most of our morning trekking all of the travails that people went through in the northern poconos in Lehigh Valley. First time in 37 years ive ever been stuck in a tractortrailer. Reporter he delivered most of his load. I was coming up the hill all of a sudden i started sliding backwards. Got int
Student at millersville university. Police now charged gregoria rafaeletta charged with assault of his girlfriend 19yearold carly had hall of chadds ford. She was found dead in her dorm room millersville university. The exact cause of death is not certain. An autopsy will be done tomorrow. And further charges could be filed then. Well continue to follow this breaking news story from millersville university. Moving on to accuweather forecast after a mild day. Temperatures are tumbling. Mix of ice, sleet and rain on the way in some regions just in time for tomorrows morning and evening soon temperatures will dip. Meteorologist Melissa Magee at the big board with the details. Sarah, walter hard to believe were tracking wintry precipitation after coming offer a mild weekend. But were already starting to see beginning ever the change moving in right now. As we look at the temperatures outside 37 in philadelphia, 35 allentown and 31 poconos and 37 wildwood. The cold air is starting to funnel
Spotty precipitation. We have a Winter Weather advisory basically across the entire region from New Castle County north and cape may county. The new issue is light rain that could translate to freezing rain and sleet mixing in. There could be a changeover to snow in Northern Areas tonight. 32 degrees in philadelphia. Cold enough at the surface to support freeze ups. 33 in wilmington. A little milder south and that will be the case with milder air to the south. Even there be came. Drivers alert with temperatures near freezing if you see drops on the windshield you meant to slow down in case its causing a freeze up. Its monday, kids, its messy on the way to school. 31 degrees by 8 00 a. M. 32 by noon, the high is 33 degrees were just barely above freezing mark for an hour, and even then cold enough for a freezeup on surface. This is spotty, not a major event. Are the roads looking okay. For the most part were looking at the main roads they seem fine. This is a much different story if the
Less than two weeks. Back here, mayor nutter joins other city leaders in hopes of boosting college attend animals. The big story this afternoon, an icy monday in the delaware valley. Salt trucks were treating roads in quakertown, bucks county. Any precipitation that fell from the sky was freezing and creating a hazardous condition for the morning commute. Two advance collided on route two have have vans collided after 8 00 a. M. Traffic was backed up as crews cleaned up the debris from the roadway. We have Live Team Coverage of our icy afternoon. David murphy keeping an eye on Storm Tracker 6 live for us. John rawlins is in bucks county where some of the roads have seen it worlds. Lets go to the action news big board david. Reporter treated surfaces have been treating this, well. We have a system coming in from lancaster thats isolated, when it hits its getting the surfaces wet and maybe freezing up depending on whether youve had treatment. Theres some in Chester County, philadelphia,