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The Lehigh Valley dropped to 13. Its cold enough for snow, even this afternoon, the temperatures are going to stay on the cold side. Thats when the snow will be coming down. Afternoon temperatures below freezing. Delaware, just above by one degree. Youll get accumulating snow there, as well. The timing is different for each part of the area. Well look at that in ten minutes. Katy zachry with traffic. Things are running well, free and clear of issues. A 13minute drive southbound between woodraven and the vine street expressway. Westbound looking good out of the city. A 20minute ride between vine and the exit for the pennsylvania turnpike. Ill show you eastbound in a second. 476, the blue route looking good northbound and southbound between 95 and 76. A 14, 15minute drive. 76 eastbound, we have overnight construction thats closed a portion of the road between Spring Garden street ....
Right at beginning of the evening rush but also at the time kid were getting out of school. Very, very slow go here. It took me 30 minutes to go just over a mile over the bridge to come toward main street in bethlehem. Now it is looking picturesque everything back to normal but we will have risk for icy conditions tonight, and current temperature right here on mobile weather watcher is about 24 degrees, when just a coat to go an inch of snow that is leading to slick conditions outside. Look at storm scan three you can see heaviest of the snow started to shift to the southe of the city still snow on the back edge and still snowing here in the Lehigh Valley but doesnt look all that impressive there on storm scan three but heavier band of snow are over portions of south jersey what happened was it moved off coast trending more snowy as we talk about throughout the day yesterday and then banding set up and in these steady band we have ....
Starting to dry up and the edge is moving from the west a clearing line and that will continue to collapse in from the north and west here this evening. Visibilities are down. Half mile in philadelphia trenton because of that snow wilmington. 3 miles. There you see wildwood 9 miles with much lighter snow down there. So, visibilities are a bit better but that is also going to deteriorate a little bit later this afternoon. Temps are bitterly cold. 23 in allentown, 25 philadelphia. So its a fluffy snow and again cold enough that it is sticking on all surfaces. So, this is a very quick hit of snow but a very bad timing here. It will clear the coast at 7 oclock this evening. Temps tonight going 19 to 24 degrees. So, roads are going to remain very slick even after the snow departs. Well chart about the upcoming weekend and sharrie in fact were talking 50s to melt the snow away somewhere in that sevenday forecast and brian well talk with i was little bit. Adam thanks. We turn to john rawlins ....
Bands of some heavier snow across parts of south jersey where you can see kind of that pinkish color near hammonton, near medford lakes, Atlantic City, lbi, this is where were getting more moderate snow. Generally were looking at one to 3 inches of snow. So, its not a lot of snow, its the timing during the evening commute. Its affecting visibilities. You can see philadelphia and trenton visibility less than a mile. Atlantic city airport visibility less than a mile and a half but you can see how things are really clearing out. Reading visibility up to 8 miles so this is a very quick hit. The problem, though, temperatures have been stuck in the 20s all day long, so any flake is sticking on the roads. Its 25 in philadelphia. Trenton 23. Reading 22 and the north and west suburbs, temperatures will be dropping down into the teens tonight. So, do be careful with icy spots on the roads even after the snow ends. So, this is what to expect ....
Commuters. Watching the snow rates increasing through the course of the evening hours but you know what, this is a pretty cold storm. Look at these temperatures across the Delaware Valley. Its down into the 20s in many locations. 16 right now in the poconos. Everything thats falling out of the sky sticking to the roads. Sticking to the sidewalks and of course sticking to your drivew driveway. Visibilities of concern with the snow rates increasing. Visibilities are going down. You notice we do have three quarter mile ships visibility here in philadelphia. A lot of spots reporting less than a quarter mile of a mile in parts of new jersey. Take live look at ultimate doppler the turnpike down 295, 70 is a nightmare at this hour. We just talked about Speed Sensors a crawl in many of our roadways. Burlington county down towards winslow township, galloway all dealing with moderate t ....