Whipping tonight in center city. Its that wind that makes it feel well below zero right now. We have not seen temperatures this low in decades. Good evening to you. Im lucy noland. Im 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 oconnell 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. Lets 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. Its 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
Schools are closed because of water leak, big water break. Ice because of the temperatures. Old pipes on the ground just arent taking the below zero temperatures that weve been getting. Yes. If we could just make it to sunday folks. Heatwave. Please. Fortys, i know. All right well, between now and then, we have a lot of cold. There is your number of the day t could be your temperature. It could be your windchill. But it is a three on scale of one to ten because of how cold it is has gotten, cold front came through last night now dealing with windchills, that are below zero this morning bus stop buddy once again cant see too much of him, thats the idea waiting outside today. Skies have cleared. Hardly see any clouds around. Thats part of why temperatures have gotten solo, now at 14 degrees, feels like three below zero in the city. So, you can imagine, in the outlying areas, it is even colder with the win chill. Sunrise time 6 49. We get to high of whopping 18 degrees today. Is up, cloud
Tonight and the wind continues. So that creates dangerous conditions. Feels like temperature 10 to 20 below zero even in and around philadelphia. Areas to the north will be closer to 20 to 25 below zero. And you can get frostbite in 30 minutes of exposure. Any part of your body that is exposed to the wind this is later tonight, there is that flag and it is blowing hard right now. It is only 19 degrees. 16 in allentown. 18 in mount holly. And feels even colder than that look at how low these temperatures are, back to the west. So even colder air is coming in. Feels like 1 at the moment. 5 below in reading. 10 below in the poconos. And these temperatures are going way down. Watch what happens as we go through the afternoon, and into tonight. The feels like temperatures going below zero. Not so much by 5 00 but as we go through the evening, look at that even by 9 00 tonight, 6 below in philadelphia. 10 below in doylestown. 6 below in dover. And then we start getting into the 10 to 20 belo
You inside. And, in our next half an hour at 5 30 kate bilo braves the frozen waters of the delaware today for a ride with the coastguard. See her trip on the coastguard cutter capstand as it breaks ice along the delaware, that is coming up at 5 30. Frozen pipes are a real threat in this weather, and some who have homes down the shore are learning that lesson, the hard way. Eyewitness news, new jersey reporter cleve bryan is live in vent are in with more cleve. Reporter extremely low wind chills at the shore are contributing to the the situations, like this, it is the second home that has burst pipes underneath and thinks also happening at some empty homes, some of them empty since sandy just here in ventnor they have had 80 calls for burst pipes. The the stream of water flowing in the dorset avenue was coming from under alexs house, culprit a burst pipe. There is no way. Reporter he rushed down from bucks county after getting a call from hib neighbor. He had some heat on but not enoug
Temperatures, here we go, about 8 00, 9 00, snow showers came through last night with the cold front. Now temperatures are dropping. We were at 16 degrees last hour, now it is 15. You see the flag unfurling now, wind chills below zero. Sunrise 65 49 this morning more temperatures, ten in reading, 13 millville wilmington, 16 wildwood. But, this is what it feels like and keep this in minds because kids going to school today, you supply to wait for a ride or for your bus below zero windchills, just about everywhere. Feels leak below zero. Break from the wind yesterday not today, 25mile an hour gust in philadelphia, 29mile an hour win gust in millville new jersey, so, well have dangerous windchills today, and tomorrow specially tomorrow, maybe flurry or two today. 18 degrees and the winds make it feel a lot colder, if we get down to that 1 degrees tonight, we will tie the record, for february 20th because that one will happen earlier in the morning tomorrow. And tomorrow is the 20th. But,