Sunday morning. Lets start the new year off right weatherwise. Lets bring in meteorologist krystal klei with a look at your first alert weather. This forecast is very easy on us for the first day of 2017. Were starting out with temperatures all above freezing. 36 degrees in mount pocono and 43 in philadelphia. Some of the clouds built in overnight kept in a little bit of the warmth from yesterday. So, temperatures didnt slip quite as much as they were supposed to. Thats good news. Things were more comfortable overnight. Still a bit of chill in the air. Atlantic city at 43, dover at 42 and lancaster right now at 41 degrees. So numbers are looking pretty good across the region. Theyll slip just a little this morning but overup we wont see much change until the clouds start to clear. Here are your current wind speeds. Yesterday it was still breezy to windy. Today still going to see some breezy conditions but not as strong as the last two days. Right now, mostly around 5 to 10 Miles Per Ho
Lets get you started with your first alert forecast. Krystal klei is here with that. This is a great forecast for us. Yesterdays new years eve. Gorgeous conditions out there. Just a little chilly and that was really the only complaint. Today were actually going to see temperatures warmer than yesterday. By the way, a high of 46 yesterday which was already above average. Take a look at your morning conditions. Were 11 degrees warmer right now in philadelphia than yesterday at this same time. So were starting out quite a bit higher. 19 degrees warmer in vineland. 15 dover. And 14 degrees warmer right now in Atlantic City. Heres a look at the actual temperatures on the board. Some of us in the low 40s here. 41 vineland, philadelphia. Upper 30s for allentown and coatesville. At 37 degrees. Also above freezing this morning. Not something we could say yesterday over much of the area. Heres your current wind speeds. Not currently strong. About five to ten miles per hour. That is enough to mak
Tiff knee knows the pain of losing a loved one. Her brother celine was murdered four years ago. Shes one of a few dozen people who came out tonight for a vigil in north philly. Keep doing it every year. Im saying it might not cure the pain ever, im saying, but it can help them. Kit help them. Like it can ease they pain more and more and more. Reporter mark and his family organize the vigil held near 16 many and susquehanna streets isnt were praying for unity. Thats the bottom line of it to pray for unity. Reporter terry runs a Crisis Center near 16th and lehigh where he put out this casket with a sign all lives matter. It represents a 16yearold boy who was killed after leaving the center which serves as a safe place for kids to escape the violence of the street we lost four of our kids this year to gun violence. Jew kwan was our last one over the weekend he got shot twice in his head after he left our center. Kids should be able to play in the streets. Senseless violence going on its l
Tiff knee knows the pain of losing a loved one. Her brother celine was murdered four years ago. Shes one of a few dozen people who came out tonight for a vigil in north philly. Keep doing it every year. Im saying it might not cure the pain ever, im saying, but it can help them. Kit help them. Like it can ease they pain more and more and more. Reporter mark and his family organize the vigil held near 16 many and susquehanna streets isnt were praying for unity. Thats the bottom line of it to pray for unity. Reporter terry runs a Crisis Center near 16th and lehigh where he put out this casket with a sign all lives matter. It represents a 16yearold boy who was killed after leaving the center which serves as a safe place for kids to escape the violence of the street we lost four of our kids this year to gun violence. Jew kwan was our last one over the weekend he got shot twice in his head after he left our center. Kids should be able to play in the streets. Senseless violence going on its l
Amounts of snow generally averaging around two inches, a little bit less to the north and the south. Theres also a chance of snow for parts of the area on saturday. Well talk about that storm, too a little bit later. Crews say theyre ready to role when the first flakes start falling. They were pretreating the roads early this afternoon. Thats where nbc Randy Gyllenhaal is live. This is the most snow of the season for most of the road crews. Reporter in the past hour or so, penn dot called in the reinforcement. Contractors will be helping out, making a total of 300 trucks salting the roads into the overnight hours. Its not going to be the biggest storm of the system, but its a good reminder for folks at home to start the snow and ice checklist. Ahead of the first real taste of winter, penn dot crews spent the past 24 hours brining local roads. When the first flakes start falling theyll issue a callout of 180 state trucks and 130 contractors on major state roads. Local contractors gettin