Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11 00. Brutal winter storm bringing stinging winds and plenty of snow. Ocean city, new jersey, just one of the areas tonight under a blizzard warning and heres live look at Atlantic City right now where the snow is coming down already. The biggest concern, of course, the more rush. More than 100 schools already closed including the district of philadelphia just take look at the bottom your screen for the latest on that. Now, a snow emergency for the city of philadelphia kicking off in just an hour. So you know what that mean. Park cars have to be moved from those snow emergency routes and if your trash is supposed to be picked up tomorrow, youll have to hang on to that until next week. Thanks for joining us tonight at 11 00. Im iain page. This winter storm already slamming the southeast. Its a bomb cyclone. So what does that mean . A lot of snow for some people. With it, just incredibly wicked winds that could knock out power
Were in it for the long haul and fox 29 is with you the when he will way. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. The bomb cyclone is about to explode. Live look at Rehoboth Beach, delaware, bracing for serious snowfall and bigtime wind. Check out the radar because this is one huge storm moving on up the east coast. As we take a live look at ben franklin parkway, the city of philadelphia has declared a snow emergency effective at midnight tonight. What that means do not park on those snow emergency routes. If youre trash collection is on thursday, sorry, but youve got a hold it until next week. Wednesday pick up tomorrow because of mondays holiday is now on friday. And philadelphia public and arch diocesan schools are both closed tomorrow along with a host of other schools. Youll see them all running along the bottom of your screen throughout the night. Lets take live look at Atlantic City right now, because the snow it is already flying there. At 10 0 2 00 p. M. Its just the beginning the shore is
Of snow for some people. With it, just incredibly wicked winds that could knock out power for lot of people. Tonight weve got Team Coverage to make sure youre ready for this blast of snow. Our crews are everywhere from down the shore where people could see high snow totals to the city where people are stoc stocking um in Burlington County some are without heat. Lets begin tonight with meteorologist kathy orr. Everyone wants to know how much snow are we going to get . Well tell you iain. We wont make you wait tonight. Thats for sure. Bomb cyclone the storm will bomb out. Rapidly intensify. We use that term a lot cyclone just means area of low pressure thats our noreaster. Its a fancy term for something Pretty Simple its an east coast snowstorm. You can see on ultimate doppler the snow moving up rapidly and where you see those dark err returns on the radar almost like a purple, thats where its snowing pretty hard especially down the shore and thats building up toward the philadelphia are
Got your Team Coverage. Fox 29 reporters all over the area. Wouldnt be surprised if you saw us driving down your street as you were digging out. Yeah, we go there. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. We begin tonight down the frozen shore. Cape may county, ocean city. The jersey coastline just coming off one historic storm. Check out that video. It is time lapse of the storm in ocean city. The winds whipping that flag. They topped the force avenue Tropical Storm setting up a blizzard with whiteout conditions. With the snow, though, moving out, it is ushered in part two of this winter blast. What could be a record shattering cold. Are you ready for this because sadly we dont have much choice here. Thank you very much for joining us at 10 00i lucy noland. What thursday. More than a foot of snow in some areas. Whipping winds, brutal cold, quite the start to 2018. Heres what we know right now. First off philadelphia schools are closed tomorrow. Public and parochial. So is the City Government and we
Per hour and what we are seeing waiting in the wings heres the difference. There is no huge arctic high driving cold canadian air down but what we are seeing is a west northwest mild breeze, this is all mild air. So this snow will start melting, very, very quickly. This afternoon we are in the mid to upper 40s. As we head into tomorrow, close to 50 and then it just gets warmer and warmer each and every day. We are close to 73 or 74 by mid week. Heres final snow tall totals, we did really well with this. And out nicely. Wood side 1 inch. Bridgeton pick up 2 inches of snow. Florence, 3 inches. Huffs church 7. 4. Allentown little bit more than 8 inches of snow which brings your seasonal total over 2 feet in the Lehigh Valley. Temperature wise magic number is 32. Once we get above 32 everything starts to melt. As you can see here most of these locations air above 32 degrees. Pottstown 34. Malvern, warminster 33. Center city checking in at 36. Even milder south and east, glassboro, 37, fort