Is dropping creating dangerous conditions. Extra care will be required when driving since so many side streets are still coated with ice and snow. Sunday night and the big story on action news is a bitterly cold night, already some schools are cancelling classes and delaying openings tomorrow, we have a list of those scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Cold outside and the good news is the snow is behind us and brutal cold lingers and a nice warm up on the way this week and metrologist Melissa Magee is here with the first check of the accuweather forecast melissa. Walter and sarah temperatures today have been below freezing and below 32 degrees and the cold snap continues for the second half of the weekend and high in philadelphia coming in at just 24 degrees normal for us this time of year is 40 so we were 16 degrees below average and its still pretty frigid as you look at the numbers in the midatlantic and 19 philadelphia and 19 from new york city down to washington d. C. And the
Overall we wind up with a mix of clouds and sun. 12 degrees in philadelphia. Thats right these are temperatures not windchills. 10 in wilmington. 11 on the thermometer in allentown. 10 in trenton, 9 in reading and 3 below in millville. Theres a small light wind going only 6 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. Its still giving us a windchill of 3. It feels like 1 in allentown. Notice the temperature and the windchill are the same in trenton because every now and then the winds die down and become calm. When they are blowing you have a 6degree windchill in cape may. Winds are not as strong as yesterday, but as cold. 12 degrees by 7 00. 23 by noon. 3 00 p. M. , thats the high, 27. Yesterday we hit 24, it felt worse because the temperature was lower and we had strong blustery winds. 23 by 5, and 7 00 p. M. , 21. We get better tomorrow, theres a chance of freezing rain late in the day and northern suburbs. Big time mild surge after that, for now, we have problems on the roads. Reporter we have
The suv. If someone threw it off an overpass thats absolutely crazy. You can get somebody killed like that. Reporter again, that driver, the victim, 75 years old. Hes now fighting for his life at the crozerchester medical center. Reporting live along the turnpike bob brooks channel6 action news. Sharrie. Yeah, bizarre story. Lets hope investigators get some answers. Bob, thank you. Well, the two main Court Facilities in trenton respect shut down because of a water main break. The Rushing Water froze on Market Street after the 16inch main broke this morning area. Around 2500 state workers were sent home because the Hughes Justice complex and the Mercer County courthouse lost Water Service hadnt to close for the day. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic will have an update on the repairs tonight at 5 00. As that picture proves after a snowy weekend the work week got off to a very frigid start as we get a first check of the accuweather forecast. Lets head outside. Meteorologist adam jos
And how unfortunate it is for this driver and we just found out who he is. Hes jack decarlo of Hamilton Township Mercer County hes 75 years old and now fighting for his life in the hospital. This is the aftermath of an accident on the new jersey turnpike like youve probably never heard of. It only involves this zune a 50pound dumbbell. New Jersey State Police say around 7 30 this morning the dumbbell somehow came crashing through the windshield badly injuring the 75yearold driver. The good news is police say the driver who was alone was conscious before being airlifted to crozerchester Medical Center but his injuries are serious. And hes now in critical condition. Its a bizarre accident thats left drivers confused. Is this real life . How did that happen. Reporter investigators havent told us that yet but what we know is a 75yearold man was heading southbound on the turnpike near mile marker six in oldmans township then the 50pound weight came crashing through. You can even see the hol
, warm up. It is shocking. My car said 14 degrees today. That is the actual temperature and that doesnt even count the wind chill but good news is just power through today and youll have reasonable temperatures coming up in the rest of the week. Okay. Lets talk about where we are right the now, buddy, are you in there. He is bundled up. You can barely recognize him. That is good. That is how you dress for the single digit wind chills or colder, it the is a five, out of ten today, that is not wind chill, it is our number but wind chillies close. We have 12 in philadelphia, three in mount pocono. Three below actual temperature in millville, new jersey. Ten in wilmington. It feels like 12 below in mount pocono, ten is wind chill in trenton. Three in philadelphia, and three below zero in millville. This is dangerous if you are outside unprotect, for too long, you can get frostbite. We have some precipitation coming our way. We will break that down coming up in just a few minutes but get re