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Ov overnight. You can see the snow is falling. Lets talk about the dangerous cold. Pamela is live this morning. Lets first begin with glenn hurricane schwartz. He is tracking this arctic air. Yeah. The temperatures themselves dont even tell the whole story. This is still 25 degrees below average just temperature wise. But on top of that look at the winds gusting 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour across the area. So it feels like it is 8 in philadelphia and wilmington, 4 in coatsville and 2 in allentown and 8 in trenton. Those numbers are not going up during the day. Why . Because look at the air in pittsburgh. Even colder than ours. Chicago feels like 17 below. Look at the arrows. That air is headed this way. It wont be quite as fierce as the time it gets here. We have more and more arctic air feeding in. Now, after the arctic air is trying to leave and moisture comes in you add up to some snow at least for a period of time. We have a first alert for Lehigh Valley and even philadelphia itself fr
Continue until 10 00 tonight. The strongest winds are going to be in the next couple of hours and then they will die down. The other story is we are up in the 50s, 54 boston, colder air is just across the border into new york. We will go subfreezing tonight. Most of that will be after midnight. It is not a flash freeze but things will freeze up overnight , 20s Central Massachusetts and 32 in boston by tomorrow morning. Will take a full look we will take a full look at your forecast coming up. Like it or not drivers have two tickets it. Here is the rain sewing down rain everywhere. Slowing down traffic everywhere. Where are you ken . We are on 24 heading southbound toward brockton. Vacation week. It seems to be a good Old Fashioned slow rushhour for the most part. We are going to try to show you the roadway. This is on 24 through brockton. We are getting the occasional sheets of wind driven rain but not the blinding stuff and not the kind of wind that makes you change lanes against your
In the lighter shade of brown, high wind warning until 10 00. The highest winds are with the rain and immediately following it. Pretty Quick Movement by 6 00, already be back edge moving through the worcester area. The boston area around 7 00. At about 8 00 or 9 00, it pushes its way toward the atlantic. Its very mild right now but as we had deeper into the night it will go subfreezing again, after midnight especially. We will start to ice up by tomorrow morning. More on the storm in what follows it for the rest of the week coming up in a few minutes. The storm unfortunately could not have hit at a worse time, right in the middle of the evening rush. The traffic not map shows a lot of red, all of it having and go traffic. Ken has more. Reporter we are on the pipe westbound and we havent encountered the heavy traffic you talked about on your map. This is a look at the road. Believe it or not, things are moving pretty well. Judging by what eric said, we are starting to get to where the m
Planned. It is a live look at boston this noon where he feels more like spring now, temperatures are in the 50s, already for many communities. At this morning it was a whole different story. Freezing rain and ice causing very slick conditions. That afternoon, thank you for being here with us, i am catherine hauser, chris is on assignment. What a difference a day makes. Bostons temperature changed more than 30 degrees in less than 24 hours. Meteorologist, Danielle Niles is here. Are you getting whiplash from this forecast . What an influx of temperatures whiplash in the sense of this wind that will start to of the day today. It is remarkable to watch this region. The temperature in boston is 49 degrees. It has taken a little bit of rise in Southern New Hampshire we are above freezing from manchester back down to nashua. Pittsburgh still sitting at 3432 in concord. Fifties from lawrence to bedford, fog in between as well. 5557 hear from milton back down to taunton and the upper 40s to lo