Skies. Future tracker showing as we head through the overnight hours, that moisture will be moving in but you can see that really most of the snow, the frozen precipitation well up to the north. This will be primarily a rain event. The question, though, will be our far north and west suburbs. There could be a few pockets of cold enough air could cause some freezing rain at the onset so the National Weather service has issued a freezing rain advisory from 1 oclock in the morning until 9 oclock for the northwest suburbs including the poconos, Lehigh Valley, berks county for the potential for a little bit of icing. Ill talk more about that and have your Christmas Day forecast coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Rick. Cecily well check back in later. Thank you. With two days left until christmas, plenty of folks are using every last minute before the weekend to shop till they drop. Gray hall spoke to some last minute shoppers today. Hes live inside the king of prussia mall tonight.
Register for new sales. A winter storm is causing travel headaches out west, were tracking possible freezing rain right here at home. Lets turn to karen rogers in for david and matt pellman has traffic. Reporter we have areas north and west, allentown, reading and lancaster, the freezing rain advisory begins at 7 00 a. M. , it ends at 11 00. In the poconos it doesnt end until 4 00 p. M. Thats a bigger deal there. Were dry through the region and not seeing any drizzle through the area. The reason we would have concern is 23 in martins creek, 28 in pottstown, 31 in saint david. You can see in the i95 corridor, chester, center city, leavette town were above freezing levittown were above freezing. In new jersey were close to freezing. 33 in hammonton. 35 in glassboro, 37 in dover. The freezing rain areas are north and we have the from 7 to 4 00 p. M. We have to look to pittsburgh to get any showers. We think the drizzle might sneak out as a warm front lifts through the area. You can see ne
Saint davids, 36 degrees in center city. In new jersey, its 33 in browns mills, hammonton. 38 degrees in dover. Misty out here with lots of clouds. Satellite and radar showing clouds in place. The showers are out to the west. We can see a touch of drizzle certainly mist at any point. Thats why it could be slippery in the north and west. 7 00 a. M. In the city, 38 degrees. 10 00 a. M. , 44. Could be freezing drizzle in the far northwest suburbs. Lots of clouds. 1 00 p. M. , 45. 4 00 p. M. , 46. The testers keep going up. Temperatures keep going up. 48. We hit a high of 50 today, that doesnt happen until after sunset. You want to be dressed appropriately when you head out now its kind of chilly. Matt when i come inside ill give you the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast and warm up a bit. Reporter were watching the north an west suburbs for the potential freezing drizzle. As we go west to king of prussia, its dry along the schuylkill expressway by 202. Of course, lots of people will
5 00, Mother Nature will drop snow and rain on the area on the final weekend of winter. This as folks are still digging out from the ice blocks left behind by the storm earlier this week. Folks will be out and about celebrating st. Patricks day. Its going to feel a lot colder as we get into the evening hours. Good evening im rosemary connors. Im jim rosenfield. How many layers do you need if youre going on . Tammie souza has the answer, shes in the weather center. How late are you going to stay out . That will determine how many layers you need. Through the early evening well be looking at the clouds. Temperatures not too horrible. Were falling from the low 40s and into the 30s. As we take a look at our radar. You can see everything is quiet here in philly. But not the case if you head off just a little bit further to the west. Heres the clipper coming straight out of canada. Its elongated as it moves through the western part of the state. Its got a rain snow mix associated with it. Th
Here, so holding on strong it, wont and big deal. We may see wet snowflakes, maybe in the city but mainly north the Lehigh Valley, poconos, for the best shot of snow. Wont cause a whole lot of problems. Will be chance of snow all the way through the overnight hours into sunday morning, wont be snowing the whole time during the day. Break it down, weak system passing by, clouds over the city, few light rain showers, even some drizzle from the city on southward, mix of some wet snowflakes, north right now. Thirtynine at the airport in philly. May drop another degree or so, thats about it, so we are staying above freezing, no real concern, many slick spots, light precipitation on storm scan3, not all even reaping the ground. Going north of the city looks like north of the turnpike, northeast extension, as well, start to get maybe few pocket of light snow. But there are breaks. Like i said, there will be times where we see nothing but clouds, and get a round of some light snow, rain. Be th