lucy, it is a dangerous cold stepping outdoors right now. if you have to be outdoors cover your extremities because front bite can set in in less than 30 minutes. less talk about the polar vortex or the return of the polar vortex right over our area. temperatures dropping. 16 degrees right now but look at that wind chill. it already feels like 2 degrees below zero in the philadelphia area. so the area temperature yeah, it s cold but factor in those winds and take lock what it feels like right now in the pocono mountains. 15 degrees below zero. feels like 10 below in lancaster lancaster. it already feels like five below in wilmington delaware and three below in atlantic city. so we have wind chill advisories area wide through midday friday. feeling like 10, 20 below zero. warnings in the pocono mountains where wind chills could approach 35 degrees below zero. let s watch the clock and watch how it will feel. future wind chills you can see by tomorrow morning at 7am in philad
atlantic city. so that is the deal we re looking at a feels like temperature in wilmington of three below right now. and it feels like three below in dover. it will get worse as we move toward the overnight and early during the day on friday. the entire area under a wind chill advisory that means feels like temperatures could range anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees below zero. for the pocono mountains it is a wind chill warning. feels like temperatures there could approach 30 degrees below zero. in fact well go hour by hour by 8:00 o clock tonight you can see everyone looking at temperatures feeling like below zero. by 10:00 o clock, eight below in philadelphia. but here s the concern friday morning at 7:00 o clock it could feel like almost 20 below in the philadelphia area as well as parts of south jersey, north and west even worse. when i come indoors we ll talk about the record item tower possibly for tomorrow morning too, and when to expect more snow moving in over the next
whipping tonight in center city. it s that wind that makes it feel well below zero right now. we have not seen temperatures this low in decades. good evening to you. i m lucy noland. i m iain page. at least five people in our area have died in the cold in just the past month. very serious situation a lot of schools have already decided on closing and delays for tomorrow. you can see them at the bottom of your screen. we have live team coverage tonight. chris o connell is in delaware. we begin though with scott williams tracking the deep freeze. scott. good evening, lucy and iain. it is a bone chilling record setting cold about to set up shop across our area. temperatures have dropped considerably since 6:00 p.m. let s take a look at the current numbers right now and you can see these are the actual air temperatures. it is nine in wilmington as well as millville. it s six in reading. two below right now in the pocono mountains and 11 in philadelphia but you have to facto
setting cold about to set up shop across our area. temperatures have dropped considerably since 6:00 p.m. let s take a look at the current numbers right now and you can see these are the actual air temperatures. it is nine in wilmington as well as millville. it s six in reading. two below right now in the pocono mountains and 11 in philadelphia but you have to factor in the wind and it feels like eight below already in philadelphia. it feels like 16 degrees below zero in reading and 25 degrees below zero in the pocono mountains. so frost bite can set in win 15 to 30 minutes when we have wind chills 15 to 25 degrees below zero for parts of the lehigh as well as the delaware valley. you can see highlighted in all of those counties we are looking at the advisories. and then toward the pocono mountains we have wind chill warnings through friday. feels like temperatures for a time cog 25 to 35 degrees below zero. the frost bite times there 10 to 15 minutes for your exposed skin sk