clouds will be slowly increasing this morning. rain arrives this afternoon. look at the temperature increase from the 30s to low 40s and to near 50 degrees at lunchtime and still climbing in spite of the rain moving in. your hour-by-hour forecast when i come back in ten minutes and first alert traffic reporter jillian mele is standing by with a report. good morning, jill. still have construction on 76. it is right here. see it blocking the left lane between 30th street and the vine street expressway. just a small portion of 76, but one lane of traffic is getting by. if this stays out there a little bit longer, we could see a delay in this area. no delays but drivers are slowing down as they pass that scene. 76 westbound, as i mentioned and blue route looking good in both directions. no accidents and no delays to report there. 95 is free of any delays, however, the northbound side we have been following overnight construction right near girard avenue. again, no delays to rep
believe it or not, this is the one daybreak. we are at what 13 degrees now this morning. good morning on this wednesday, this is nbc 10 news today. i m chris cato. let s go to meteorologist bill henley now and the first alert forecast. bill? the snow of yesterday gave way to sunshine, actually. it was a nice sunny day. yes. a lot of melting occurred even with temperatures cold during the day, but it is frozen solid as you mentioned this morning with temperatures plummeting overnight. you can see the ice flow on the delaware in front of center city. that s a live view looking across the delaware this morning. temperatures have plummeted overnight with single digits in many of the suburbs. 8 degrees in atlantic city. look at millville, 1. pottstown, 2. it is now down to 12 degrees in northeast philadelphia and wilmington. a frigid start, it will be sunny. look at the temperature at 7:00. 19 degrees at 9:00. we ll see melting throughout the day. i ll go through it hour by ho
cold and handful of other closings and delays listed at 6abc.com and the running at the bottom of the screen. good morning, 4:30 monday, february 16. of course, david we want to know when it gets better than this. you re keeping an eye on the traffic. good morning. reporter: the temperatures are dropping, with the low temperatures it doesn t take that much wind to get a severe windchill. a windchill advisory is in effect across the region until 11:00 a.m. when it could feel 15 to 20 below zero. the temperatures are in record territory. 4 degrees in philadelphia. 2 off the record here. 1 in allentown. zero in reading. in lancaster, 1 below right now. now, that s the temperature. when you factor in the wind that is rushing down out of the northwest. pretty noticeable. it s 15 degrees below zero. 17 below in aislen town. millville, 13 below. wildwood, 10 below. 6 degrees by 8:00 a.m. noon 17 degrees. by the way we have a chance of going down to the 2-degree low before we turn
the rough stuff. reporter: we have windchills across the region ranging from 15 broa to 20 below. ment temperatures is 3 degrees in philadelphia. one off the record. we have tied or broken records in wilmington and atlantic city this morning. a couple of more may fall. with the wind in the teens out of the northwest it s giving windchills in the below-zero range. 16 below in philadelphia. 18 below in allentown. 11 below in wildwood. these are dangerous windchills, frostbite an issue this morning as long as the windchills are that severe. in fact it could take as little as 30 to 6 minutes in the philadelphia and lehigh valley area. in the lehigh valley it could take 15 to 30 minutes in windchill environments. bundle up and cover up. 21 degrees by 3:00 p.m. with clouds increasing. there s a winter storm warning for areas south of philadelphia. a winter storm watch in the city and on up toward reading. the lehigh valley out of that, because snowfall amounts won t be as bad u
200 block of south 52nd street. this fire has been going since 4:30 a.m. an hour and half, so obviously firefighters are having a lot of trouble putting this out or at least place it under control. the entire building has been evacuated. hopefully nobody was left inside. they have the ladders up and they are trying to fight it from the air. most of the fire and smoke coming from the roof of the structure. this is a story we ll be following throughout the morning. in fact let s go over to david murphy, karen rogers to look at weather and traffic. david it is a terribly cold morning for the firefighters to be out on the job. reporter: no kidding and everybody else who has to go out and brave this. take a look, because we have a windchill advisory in effect this morning until 11:00 a.m. it s during those times we expect the worst windchills. at bad as 20 below. ment temperatures 3. reading a new record low of 1 below. allentown, 1 degree below zero. ac airport has a new reco