this evening is a big turnaround and cool down is expected to follow. meteorologist melissa magee is at the accounts news big board with the first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. walter, rain started in the northwestern suburbs along that i-95 metro area and continues to work its way eastwar. here s storm tracker six live double scan radar. we are tracking cluster of activity thanks to the cold front, strong showers and rumble of thunder to the south of philadelphia down in south jersey and delaware and secondary push of moisture out across central sections of pennsylvania. a tighter view on storm tracker six street level you can see rain there in philadelphia, same thing for media, chad forward. in wilmington a pocket of moderate if not the heavy rain moving through south jersey through salem, elmer, also pressing very closely to millville and would i expect this to continue, through the early evening hours. with the passage of the cold front the wind are star
coating, maybe a couple of you with closer to a quarter to a half inch and most road surfaces that were pretreated overnight have done fine. i will tell that you some sidewalks could give you a problem and we ve got a concrete terrace out here that has a little bit of air flow beneath it but it is definitely frozen up. i just about did a face planter out here a seconds ago. be careful under foot and some of those untreated surfaces. there s another round of snow showers beginning to build up through southern new castle county delaware crossing into salem and cumberland county. farther south you can see how it s mixing with a little rain and lancaster county about to pick up some of that as well so there is more snow shower activity on the way. again the first batch that came through was real light but looks like this next one might be a little bit more robust. you can see the brighter white shades beginning to bloom in washington. 33 in millville so really anywhere from millv
clear the sky a little bit later tonight, 10 to 11 o clock your temperature sitting at 40 degrees and double scan showing a new storm developing that will bring blizzard like conditions into parts of high what and that storm cuts to our north and west and brings a flood watch for noon and wednesday for the heart of the philadelphia region. we ll talk about this flood watch and what it could mean in the full accuweather forecast. after months of buildup the 2016 presidential election begins today. all of the candidates are in the hawk aye state pushing for last minute votes. the caucuses begin in iowa in just under four hours. the latest polls show it could be tight especially for democrats. let s go to the republican side though where polls show donald trump is the favorite to win tonight with ted cruz coming in second but for the democrats bernie sanders leads hillary clinton but the three-point gap is within the margin of error meaning it s a statistical dead heat. a