Good morning everyone, 5 30 a. M. , december 28. Tam is off, Alicia Vitarelli joins us. Reporter matt pellman in for karen rogers, good chilly morning, guys. Reporter the more the merrier, pile them on. Reporter the other point im trying to make is cover up as much skin as you can. If youre outside for any period of time it could be a day where you get frostbite. Its a day where we have lots of sun, but it wont help. 15 degrees in philadelphia. 14 in trenton. 14 in wilmington. Just 12 in allentown. 11 reading and lancaster. 13 in millville. 18 down the shore in cape may. It is the wind and what its doing with the cold and the windchills. Feels like 3 in philadelphia. 2 in trenton. Zeron allentown and wilmington. One below zero in reading. 4 in millville. 9 in cape may. Even that is very brutal. As we go through the day temperatures will stay on the cold side. In fact well be in the low 20s this afternoon. High of 23 around 3 00 p. M. 19 by 11 00 spending a good portion of the day in th
Lots of sunshine on the way its a day where it just not going to matter all mucres, as you step outside weve cleared out overnight the have responded by droppinglphia. 12 inllentown. Rtheswindchills. 14 in wilmington, 14 in millville. 18 in cape t any would be bad enough, but we have a breeze it feel like 3 in philadelphia. 2 below in trenton. Zero in allentown. Weve dipped to 4 below in reading,urrently. And 1 below in wilmington. 4 in millville. Cape may 8degree windchill even there you have to bundle up and cover up, as we go outside not only this morning but throughout the afternoon. Here the numbers well get to a high of 23 around there at 3 00 p. M. Lots of sun but bitterly cold. The windchill is a factor with the wind gusting as high as 25 Miles Per Hour during the day. Single digit windchills in philadelphia. Right up through 1 00, 2 00, well get to 10 after that. In the poconos theres a windchill advisory until noon, windchills ten to 15 degrees below zero on the slopes this m
Betsy ross bridge, kind of quiet this morning, virtually no overnight construction because of the holiday. Couple of fire locations, one here in abington, Huntingdon Pike, police and fire crews on the scene, with the fires comes the water. Then that gets iced over just like here in the neighborhood. The fire location, we will tell but in a moment at that church, corn well just off of f street. So watch for some local detours. Septa had some problems last night, signal problems, causing big delays on the Airport Media elwyn and wilmington line late last night. Were still wait fog find out if those signal delays will carry into the start of our morning rush hour, well have that update the next time around, thomas, back over to you. Bob, thank youment lets talk about the developing story. Still breaking right now, overnight fire at old Vacant Church. This is in kensington. Sending 19 Homeless People back into the bitter cold. That cold weather certainly made it hard for crews to get all o
If you want to see just how cold it is, look at the Franklin Square fountain. Look at this. It looks more like an ice sculpture, it is cents just frozen. Freeze frame. You know . So this is because the sub freezing temperatures, the water no longer free flowing. We will try to go back there, sue, once the sun is up. It has to be beautiful and sparkling. But it is cold. Well do you have find your beauty in the bitterness outside this morning. And yes, whatever adjective you want to use, it is even colder than it was yesterday at this time. Tuck that in. It is on my nervesment we have a five out of ten today. Yes, even colder. It is cents National Card playing day. And i think this might work out pretty well if you have the kids home from school. Maybe a game of go fish, 500 rum i, you know the drill. Yes, uno, oh, that was our favorite growing up. Well, my daughter growing up, yes, we loved to play uno. Anyway, single digit windchills and below in some cases in philadelphia, it is 15, b
Carabeo. Jim and rahel are off today. This is just the start of the frigid forecast and this weekend we may even be able to see some snowflakes out there. Meteorologist Kate Fehlinger is live in the Weather Center this noon monitoring what it could feel like for your new years celebration, katie. It will be brutally cold right through that time frame, jan. We were feeling as cold as below zero in a lot of outlying suburbs to the north and west. It felt at the worst as cold as 20 below zero in the poconos. Understandably that was a sewn that had a wind advisory which has gone out of effect but it hasnt gotten a lot better even since then. Let me show you currently just the wind speeds. You know, this is the x factor. This is what you need to account for when you walk out the door. So i could show you the actual air temperatures but id rather show you the feelslike values because this is what you want to use as a gauge when you walk out the door. You know, it feels even still like its 12