we start with lauren casey who's tracking falling temperatures and also lauren, the threat of ice. >> thanks so much jessica, temperatures across the delaware valley right now are sub freezing, all of that snow, sleet we saw is now refreezing. that will create hazardous travel conditions as high temperatures will struggle, as far as the precipitation, most of that has moved off our nor'easter to the north and east a few scatter the snow showers parts of delaware like we didn't have enough today, as far as snowfall total, monroe county picking up 19 inches. lehigh county picking up over 15 inches, bethlehem 14, drexel hill five and a half inches of snowfall, more coming up in a little bit later in the show. also along the i95 corridor we saw snow. we saw sleet. we saw freezing rain, we saw an ice accumulations delaware three ten. of an inch of ice, county buy t.2, winds speeds don power lines, check out some of the rainfall totals, two, three, four inches of rain in atlantic city, breaking a daily rainfall record, and everyone despite the precipitation you saw, saw the gusty winds, wel

lauren casey's tracking the storm in the weather center this evening. at is the latest. >> latest we will be contend ing with a major winter storm, tonight and through the day tomorrow, we had winter storm warning in effect upgraded for a large portion of the area, chester county, montgomery, berks county, lehigh valley and poconos 8:00 0 p.m. on tuesday. blizzard criteria has to do with visibility and wind gusts over 35 miles an hour that we will definitely have. visibility down to a quarter mile or less and blowing, drifting snow for a period of three or more hours, so we will have blizzard criteria, in these area as we head throughout this time frame. elsewhere winter storm warning remains in effect for that time frame through that day tomorrow. storm scan three showing us quiet before the storm but moisture returns off to our south and west and much, more moisture up wind that will be moving into our backyard. what to expect for tonight? snow over spreading area by midnight tonight. we could see a few flakes, by nine, 10:00 p.m. this evening. heavy s

we start with lauren casey who's tracking falling temperatures and also lauren, the threat of ice. >> thanks so much jessica, temperatures across the delaware valley right now are sub freezing, all of that snow, sleet we saw is now refreezing. that will create hazardous travel conditions as high temperatures will struggle, as far as the precipitation, most of that has moved off our nor'easter to the north and east a few scatter the snow showers parts of delaware like we didn't have enough today, as far as snowfall total, monroe county picking up 19 inches. lehigh county picking up over 15 inches, bethlehem 14, drexel hill five and a half inches of snowfall, more coming up in a little bit later in the show. also along the i95 corridor we saw snow. we saw sleet. we saw freezing rain, we saw an ice accumulations delaware three ten. of an inch of ice, county buy t.2, winds speeds don power lines, check out some of the rainfall totals, two, three, four inches of rain in atlantic city, breaking a daily rainfall record, and everyone despite the precipitation you saw, saw the gusty winds, wel

international will be back to normal operations, tomorrow. >> that is crazy to look at. >>> meteorologist lauren casey with us, in for kate bilo and lauren, you have been quite busy today, as we wind down actual precipitation but it has left behind, a lot. >> absolutely, yeah. we saw a lot of sleet, heavy sleet, you could hear it this morning. it was hitting windows. my dogs were scared. they didn't know what was going on. it was aing about part of the weather story to day. large amount of sleet we got heavier at times. meteorologist kate bilo breaks down science of how it develops. >>> i'm meteorologist kate bilo in the einstein health care science center. i want to talk about the storm and what made it more sleet storm then snowstorm here in philadelphia it those do with warm air aloft and center of the low place the. lets talk about the low first and foremost. here's satellite radar. stop it at 8:00. you can see that center of the low pressure forming and intensifying off the coast but we're already starting to see mixing. center of the low right here is over portions of southern delaware, right al

lauren casey is in for kate looking at the windchills and what we should expect. lauren? >> thanks, the city is a hot mess because of the cold and we didn't see see any melting, we're going to be dealing with treacherous conditions on untreated surfaces, the roads, sidewalks, temperatures in the teens and 20's, we have all of that snow and slush, it's just a frozen rock hard mess. icy conditions, a lot of ice out and about in the city on those untreated side roads, you don't want to use extreme caution, we did not make it to freezing, high temperature, 30, normal 52. near that. it was our coldest since early january, stormscan 3 showing us the snow showers have finally kind of come to an ends after a prolonged period of light snow. we picked up a trace of snowfall and we saw snow squalls throughout the area. 27 in allentown, 29 in philly, 29 in millville. feels like temperatures down into the teens, feeling line one above in mount pocono and overnight tonight, temperatures dropping off into the teens themselves will fall to 18 in philadelphia. 15 in reading down to 21 in

lauren casey is in the weather center with a look at how low it's going to go. lauren?i'm scared to ask you >> and you should be. brave souls out there on kelly drive getting a run in in the cold conditions. i ran yesterday and i started crying because it was just so chilly. i didn't cry. maybe one tear. today, certainly a cold day. our coldest in a month in philadelphia. 36 degrees. the high temperature, we should be near 50 as far as our averages are concerned. this morning at 24 degrees and temperatures right now, you know, they're bitter cold, 26 in the lehigh valley, 27 in allentown, freezing mark in philadelphia and of course, to add insult to injury, we have the blustery conditions on top of these cold temperatures. wind speeds still elevated around 16, 17, 20 miles per hour with locally higher gusts. and that's having a big impact on that feels like temperature, feeling like four below right now in the poconos. feeling like 15 in allentown, 21 degrees in philadelphia. hard to believe we started off a month of march with a high temperature of 74. yes. we're going

as we brace, preparations underway all across the area we will get started with meteorologist lauren casey who is tracking the storm path, lauren. >> first of all we saw this last week model playing out major winter storm potential. models have been consistent and very much agree that we will be dealing with a significant, snowfall, also, elevated wind speed of across the area tomorrow. we have blizzard warnings for a large portion of the delaware valley. that does include chester county, bucks county, montgomery county, berks county, lehigh valley and poconos 8:00 p.m. this evening until 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. a winter storm warning remains for large portion of the area including center city philadelphia, winter weather advisory from cape may county, storm scan three showing us high level cloud, those are the look at the storm to come. we are seeing returns being picked upright now, on storm scan three off to the south and west, check out this moisture down to the south and west. here is our area of low pressure riding up along the coast and be a nor'easter that impacts the your use as we he

lauren casey is in for kate looking at the windchills and what we should expect. lauren? >> thanks, the city is a hot mess because of the cold and we didn't see see any melting, we're going to be dealing with treacherous conditions on untreated surfaces, the roads, sidewalks, temperatures in the teens and 20's, we have all of that snow and slush, it's just a frozen rock hard mess. icy conditions, a lot of ice out and about in the city on those untreated side roads, you don't want to use extreme caution, we did not make it to freezing, high temperature, 30, normal 52. near that. it was our coldest since early january, stormscan 3 showing us the snow showers have finally kind of come to an ends after a prolonged period of light snow. we picked up a trace of snowfall and we saw snow squalls throughout the area. 27 in allentown, 29 in philly, 29 in millville. feels like temperatures down into the teens, feeling line one above in mount pocono and overnight tonight, temperatures dropping off into the teens themselves will fall to 18 in philadelphia. 15 in reading down to 21 in

let's start with meteorologist lauren casey she's tracking what we can expect as we go through the night and into the morning. >> thank you, yukee. we're dealing with a powerful nor'easter that is going to impact the delaware valley. check out the snow overspreading the area just within the last hour the snow has commenced in center city philadelphia some heavy snow has started to pick up. the snow has been falling for about an hour now up into reading and allentown also some periods of heavy snowfall down the shore seeing some returns of sunny flakes from sea isle city. look at all of this moisture that is going to work through our neck of the woods as we head through the night tonlt and through the day tomorrow. winter storm warning in effect until 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. blizzard warnings in effect for chester, montgomery county, berks county, lehigh valley and poconos. we are going to deal with strong winds in addition to the snowfall. high impacts from snowfall accumulation, high impacts from wind and icing south and east to the city and of course to our travel extremely big impacts as

meteorologist lauren casey is in for kate bilo in the weather center.y she's outside on the sky deck. hi there lauren.utside on the >> you never know where i will pop up, right now it is on the sky deck. it is not too bad. i have my blazer, going without jacket. i will only be out here a couple minutes but temperatures some of the warmest of the week right now we had that sunshine as well, 44 degrees in philadelphia. forty-two in allentown. we are at 48 degrees in atlantic city. as we look at storm scan three though showing us nice clear skies, we had all throughout the day-to-day, quickly fade ago way and that cloud deck is decreasing behind me. you will notice some returns on the radar, just to our south and west, and that will be moving, our way, as we head into the overnight period. winter weather advisory has been issued north and west, 6:00 a.m. tomorrow to 6:00 a.m. sunday for berks county, lehigh valley and poconos but we will have a chance of wintry type precipitation, across much of the area but for tonight, do watch out for areas of black ice

let's start with meteorologist lauren casey she's tracking what we can expect as we go through the night and into the morning. >> thank you, yukee. we're dealing with a powerful nor'easter that is going to impact the delaware valley. check out the snow overspreading the area just within the last hour the snow has commenced in center city philadelphia some heavy snow has started to pick up. the snow has been falling for about an hour now up into reading and allentown also some periods of heavy snowfall down the shore seeing some returns of sunny flakes from sea isle city. look at all of this moisture that is going to work through our neck of the woods as we head through the night tonlt and through the day tomorrow. winter storm warning in effect until 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. blizzard warnings in effect for chester, montgomery county, berks county, lehigh valley and poconos. we are going to deal with strong winds in addition to the snowfall. high impacts from snowfall accumulation, high impacts from wind and icing south and east to the city and of course to our travel extremely big impacts as

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meteorologist lauren casey tracking not one but two shots of snow >> who's excited >> 6:00 a.m. 6:00 a.m. sunday, stormscan 3 is relative quiet right now. seeing a couple of returns popping up much more moisture off to the south and west in association with a slow moving storm system as it passes through and on the back side of the system as well what to expect for the weekend. a slow movie starts as a light wintery mix in the city and that will be a late overnight early tomorrow morning. but our best chance of snow area-wide will be late saturday night early sunday. we will see some accumulations across parts of the area but they will try to be minimal, what to expect. in the poconos, mainly be a snow event but you can see tons of freezing rain especially tomorrow morning. berks county, lehigh valley, we start off as snow then transition to rain as we head to midday and tomorrow afternoon, then back to snow tomorrow night. in philly and immediate suburbs start as a mix late. quickly to rain tomorrow morning. periods of rain throughout the day and tomorrow night back to snow. an

lets check with meteorologist lauren casey with what we got and what ace head, lauren. >> reporter: thanks, ukee. i'm about ready for a nap i think. i think a lot of us are. so, we did get a lot of napping in today because a lot of snow days, and certainly necessary, but a much different scene as we got a live look at center city philadelphia. sunshine in the theme. twelve hours ago. we were dealing with heavy sleet. temperatures it is cold. 34 degrees. northwest wind at 24 miles an hour. feels like 22 degrees. but even over the last couple of hours, we have had more snow coming through with a little band of snow that has movede, now over monmouth county. we still do have moisture up wind. we can see that on storm scan three. a little bit slowly working its way through lancaster county but main energy with this huge, nor'easter is, well off to the north ande. war of the storm has passed. we could still see a few snow showers but dit dump on the poconos, 2 feet of snow, in mount pocono, allentown close to 14 inches. mount vernon chester county, 7 t philly international 6 inches. upper darby

in the einstein health care science center i'm meteorologist lauren casey. >>> and earlier today city and school district officials got together to launch a new initiative aimed at saving energy and cutting costs for philadelphia schools. >> "eyewitness news" at lankenau high school in roxborough where school superintendent, william hite, and several members of the city council board planned -- unveiled prance for pilot program. three schools will be selected to participate in the program, it kicks off in the fall. >>> still to come on "eyewitness news" we will show you the largest pink diamond, in the whole world. >>> and a tangled webb lead detectives to quarterback tom brady's stolen super bowl jersey. where it was found and what was found with it. >>> and a new muppet on sesame street will help children learn about individual differences but also teach them that more of the same, hi there, katie. >>> well, we are already thinking about the weekend, on on monday the first week end of the spring. we will start off with temperatures in the 60's. we have to wait until the weekend but

but taking a look at winter like weather e meteorologist, lauren casey, all i have to say, lauren, it is about time. >> i know. it was a long time coming, especially, after last weekend, that nor'easter, to end the winter season, but spring is officially here. the sun is out. the smell of cheese steaks are in the air. really i can smell comes steaks, and i'm going to go finds them after the show. but chilly note to end off our last week of winter. yesterday our high temperature of 50 degrees in philadelphia, was our most mild, about a week and a half time. temperatures before that, in the 40's, and then that day after the nor'easter, last wednesday, remember, only 31 degrees. none of the snow even moment that day. our average high temperatures should have us low to mid 50's, but getting there, 45 degrees right now in philadelphia, still need the jacket, but the sunshine feels great. 48 degrees in wilmington, 42 reading. storstorm scan3 showing us sun across much of the area. some clouds on the increase looking out toward berks county, but in your day planner that's too bad. to kick of

we're now dealing with birth cold, meteorologist lauren casey's in the weather center. how bit lauren will spring ever get here. >> so close, next monday, we will reach out and bring it on in but we just can't do so just yet. ice sickles over hanging buildings, chunks of ice falling down, it is happening at my house. my doggiesinging what is that? that is trend through this evening tonight and then tomorrow temperatures will be warming above freezing. that is nice. storm scan three showing us trend of the day to day very wintry conditions with this snow, continuing to move over the same area, again, and again. we are getting a break in center city philadelphia snow letting up after steady snow over last several hours but still seeing flakes flying right now in parts of the south injuries friday moorestown into evesham and closer to the shore. heavier pockets of the snow across portions of southeastern, burlington county, and atlantic county. seeing snow showers lifting northbound up through ocean county as well. we've winter weather advisory north and west until 8:00 p.m

continues to fall throughout the city, right new but where is this storm headed meteorologist lauren casey joins us with the latest forecast, lauren. >> reporter: yes, snow falling across the good portion of the area with the heaviest snow making its way across south jersey and shore points and snow is coming down, down the shore, right now, we will see, too often our live neighborhood network camera at margate there is ocean, there is sand, and there is some snow, starting to lay, on the sand, and snow falling in the scene there storm scan three is showing us heaviest band of the snowfall indicated by those darker purple colors. so stretching from ocean county down into burlington county, also atlantic county within this band, snow falling rates of one to 2 inches per hour, that is heavy snowfall, also seeing that across portions of central delaware where snow is coming down heavily from smyrna to dover. i-95 corridor intensity let up but we are seeing snow coming down. looking up toward lehigh valley and poconos, it is starting to taper off now for you but down the shore yeah, we had rai

meteorologist lauren casey in for kate bilo live on the sky deck and, lauren, say it ain't so. >> don't do it. >> mother nature is being so cruel, why? >> yes, i feel like we are all grounded. we will get two days of sunshine but over last hour it feels chillier out here on the sky deck because the skies are clouding over and we have who that sunshine, all this moisture building in advance of the next weather system that will be slow moving and bringing us a couple shots of snowfall but on a positive note we have our warmest temperatures we have felt in about a week time and they are not that impressive but 44 degrees in philadelphia, 46 in ac and 41 degrees in allentown. storm scan three is showing us those cloud are quickly on the increase, moisture up wind and you see green, pink abe are and oh, yes, white all moving this way. winter weather north and west of the city starting at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning to 6:00 a.m. sunday morning. berks county, lehigh valley and poconos what to expect this weekend? slow moving system. we will see moisture building in advance and then lingering mo

meteorologist lauren casey tracking rain storm and hear to tell us what to expect, here's lauren. >>> still ahead of us as we head in the afternoon and evening, the rainfall intensity will increase and we have within dealing with extremely, soggy conditions, and, just a miserable, even to the workweek. storm scan three is showing us a ton of moisture, every where you can see that rain has spread across the delaware valley over last several hours but the heaviest rain is just up wind at this point where we will see those returns to the darker green, yellow and orange, starting to move into lancaster county, and chester county in the next 30 minutes to half an hour. it will move northeast. we will see it moving autopsy long the i-95 corridor heading in the next couple of hours. we have picked up healthy rainfall totals. hatfield, closing in on a inch three-quarters in allentown at airport picking up a half inch of rainfall, already. but check this out, future weather as we head in the rest of the day there is that heavier rain, widespread, in nature as we head in the afternoon. 6:00 o'c

skies are clearing out to make room for sunny afternoon, but will be getting windy, meteorologist lauren casey live on the cbs-3 skydeck, and also a chance for some snow headed our way. >> absolutely, but no snow? site right now. it is beautiful. after a gloomy start to the day, about six hours ago, the clouds are in place, some light rain was coming down, but now dealing with all sunshine. we did pick up on some pretty puny rainfall totals. but did start the day with some slick spots. check out doppler radar estimated rainfall totals across the area. picking up generally less than .10 of an inch in most spots across the last 24 hours, but now, just dealing with sunshine, storm scan3, showing us, that rain has cleared on out across much of the area. we will continue to deal with sunshine with the development of a few clouds as we head into the second half of the day. if i can get my collector work, i think it just want to stay out here and pan right now. as we head into the second half of the day, temperatures will be on the stable side, staying in the upper 50's, to low six 60s. and we will k

well, buckle up we will be on a weather roller coaster before we head back down, meteorologist lauren casey is live on the cbs-3 sky deck with the rest of the ride for today, lauren. >> thanks, jim. >> you can feel moisture building, feeling damp, chilly , definitely have cloud behind me, namely, in the mid to upper levels of the atmosphere. storm scan three showing us some precipitation that was in route to our area looking much more robust about three hours ago but a lot of that precipitation, fading on out, but we do have some precipitation coming down right now in the poconos in the form of some snow, some sleet, and some freezing rain right now so watch out for slippery conditions in these areas. winter weather advisory remains for carbon, monroe counties for the next 45 minutes due to that precipitation that will taper off as we head into the next hour but in mount pocono temperatures are sub freezing but south, points and south ande those temperatures starting to climb up, as a warm front is currently making its way through the area. temperature change over the last 24 hours, because

meteorologist lauren casey live on the cbs3 sky deck with very chilly temperatures.auren, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, yeah, temperatures are chilly but with this nice spring sunshine on my back, feels very good. still need the coat and temperatures are in the 30's across the region. we lost the blustery conditions that we had throughout the day yesterday. 36 degrees right now in philadelphia. but feeling a little bit better than that on your skin. 34 degrees in allentown. we're at 34 degrees in reading. 38 degrees right now in atlantic city. storm scan3 showing us nothing but sunshine and blue skies and we do like that and we are going to see, though, a more unsettled weather pattern develop as we head really into the day tomorrow. we'll have milder temperatures climbing up into the middle 50's in the city and surrounding suburbs but some scattered showers in the forecast starting around mid morning and then persisting into the early afternoon is going to be that most likely time frame across much of the delaware valley and this could indeed start off as freez

meteorologist, lauren casey tracking the rain. what's the latest? >> i think it would be a good idea to have it on stand bias we head throughout the afternoon hours, but our tuesday definitely starting off on damp note. soggy, as well, temperatures, on the rise, it was much more mild start to the day, and we do have warmfront moving through the area as we speak. 63 degrees, right now in millville. fifty-nine in dover. 57 degrees in wilmington, and 56 in philly. a bit of a temperature gradient north of that boundary, temperatures still in the 40's in the lehigh valley. those numbers will start to climb for you over the next several hours. temperature change, on the back side of this warmfront significant over the last 24 hours. about 20 degrees warmer than this time yesterday, millville up 12 degrees in philadelphia, but still dealing with some shower activity, not as in nature as we saw earlier in the morning, starting to see light rainfall returning with little shower working itself into center city philadelphia. some raindrops coming down haverfor

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dreary start to the morning and we won't be seeing much improvement as day goes on, meteorologist lauren casey is live on the cbs-3 sky deck with a look at conditions right now good afternoon, lauren. >> reporter: good afternoon, the rain has seized but fog is in place behind me, dreary conditions but we are still going to be drying out a bit in most areas after need ago this umbrella this morning with scattered showers across the delaware valley. still seeing light rain along the coast right now, seeing some shower activity, stretching up from north wildwood and strathmere and atlantic city. some rain coming down. general amounts so far this morning about a tenth to an quarter inch, .3 in allentown and reading, and visibility they are on the lower side because of this fog deck in place. we have a visibility of 4 miles right now in philadelphia, but it is a warm front coming through the area, i think it is possible we could see a period of sunshine as we head in the next couple of hours. temperatures are on the rise after our chilly day, yesterday, and we will spend sometime in the 60's today,

meteorologist lauren casey tells us we're in for a drastic temperature drop tomorrow as well. lots of surprises this week. right, lauren. >> so many surprises. so many clothing accessories you need. we need the umbrella today. need the t shirts now we need the jackets. all over the place. but it is spring. season of transition high temperatures today at 77 degrees in philadelphia. 68 in allentown. got to 79 in wilmington. 80 degrees on march day in millville. we topped at 81 degrees in atlantic city. and that was a record warm high temperature beating the previous record of 79 set back in 1963 but check this out. after 81 degrees just earlier today, we're now at 46 degrees in ac. we're down to 45 in philadelphia. had a cold front drop through the they are brought us that shower activity which is kind of diminish right now still have the cloud cover in place and still have that frontal boundary lingering and it will return as we head into our sunday but our sunday is going to be a much different day with below average temperatures and east wind kicked in off the atlantic we'll g

meteorologist, lauren casey live on the cbs-3 skydeck to tell us how high the temperature will go. hello, lawyer glenn hello, jim, feeling good out on the skydeck, big difference from this morning, this jacket might be even too heavy as temperatures are on the rise, some nice sunshine hine me in center city philadelphia. temperatures at 44 degrees in philly. temperatures in the four's, generally across the area, 46 degrees in reading, at 43 allentown and currently 46 degrees in ac. temperature change over the last 24 hours, you know it, as soon as you step outside, significant on the order of 17 4 hours, and in reading, up about 14 degrees from this time yesterday in dover. storm scan3 showing us nice sunshine specially across the coast, patchy cloud cover working in along the i59 corridor some of the northwestern suburbs up into the lehigh valley. see the trend for increasing clouds into the second haft of the day, no bother because temperatures are going to be feeling much nicer up to 52 degrees, down the shore we maintain the sunshine little bit longer highs in the upper 40's, a

we're tracking some snow, meteorologist, lauren casey, live on the sunny cbs-3 skydeck. >> good afternoon, jim, yes, just soaking up the rays out here on the skydeck. it is really nice, turn down the winds a little bit, but otherwise warm temperatures, don't even need the jacket. bright sunshine, at 64 degrees right now in philadelphia, near 60 in the lehigh valley, six an in ac, cooler in the poke necessary in the 40's, those winds whipping, winds sweeps up around 21, 25 miles per hour, will hang on throughout the afternoon hours, so we will keep around the nice sunshine, what we have on storm scan3, but by tomorrow, storm scan3 will be a lot busier winter weather advisory north of the city, berks county, lehigh valley, poconos, kicks in tonight, runs through tomorrow morning watch to expect, some snow by early morning, mixing in with some rain, some sleep, period every steady snowfall likely from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m., along the i95 corridor and south jury will hamper our commute. snow squawls will redevelop as we head into the afternoon, so tomorrow will be a much different day, we will ti

let's get a check of the forecast with lauren casey in for katie, and meisha with the road. >> if anythingsay

let's get a check of the forecast with lauren casey in for katie, and meisha with the road. >> if anything, just say it. all right. good morning. looking outside right now no accidents, good. knock on wood. lots of construction though so we will get to that coming up in a bit. >> nice quiet start. still mild. nice day in store but then bottom falls out as we head into tomorrow. who is excited, for arctic air i know you guys are. as we head in the upcoming weekend temperatures will be plumetting, but right now, we're feeling good. we will need that winter coat. fifty-three in philadelphia 51 lehigh valley. right around 50 degrees. we have breezy conditions though that are persisting, wind speed up 10 to 16 to 20 miles an hour with locally higher gusts, but all quiet. cloud to the south. some snow well far to the north. but as we head through the day today enjoy mild conditions and another round of sunshine for 9:00 o'clock hour. fifty-one. breezy sunshine. wind any to midday but keeping it around sunshine. temperatures nearing 60 degrees. sixty-one by 5:00 o'clock hour increasing cloud but

announcing plans to challenge president trump's new travel ban but first lets check the forecast with lauren casey in for katie and in for traffic with katie. >> happy hump day. >> we are going over hump today. we have a few problems out there that will slow you down, already that happened yesterday, too. in the 4:30 hour. we will see what comes from it >> we had some rain, maybe some lingering moisture on the roadways and still some rain. we will look at storm scan three and show you where it is located. it is light. we have a cold front moving through as we speak. you can see where that cold front has passed through. a live update. we dropped 2 degrees in reading down to 48. forty-one at mount pocono. ahead of that boundary temperatures extremely mild along i-95 corridor waking up to near 60 degrees right now. sixty-one in philadelphia. here's shower activity again during light in intensity especially west of the i-95 corridor but sprinkles impacting shore as well. take a closer look where drip drops are coming down across portions of northern delaware. newark, up into parts of the pennsylvania

checking the forecast with lauren casey, should be milder day? >> chilly start to the day.eratures on the rise quickly as we head into this afternoon. sunshine for the first half of the day, then mostly cloudy as we head past lunchtime. 35 degrees, at the 9:00 hour, up to 44, though, by the 12:00 o the 50's, by the second half of the day today. even more mild as we head into tomorrow. 64 degrees, with some scattered light hours sanders, best chance of rain comes tuesday night into early wednesday. and cooler temperatures by the end of the week. >> good to know, lauren, thank you so. looking at an accident right now lansdowne. marshall road, maple avenue, our only accident out there right now. but it is looking very busiment take a look at 59 south at cottman push in the southbound direction, small crawl there. the boulevard push in the southbound direction toward the schuylkill moving very slow there, once you get on to the schuylkill around city avenue looking slow. another point of view from the schuylkill at montgomery, you can see it is moving slow here both eastbound a

. >>> lets check the forecast with lauren casey, lauren, good morning, already windy out there. >> yeah will take us through the day-to-day we have sprinkles on storm scan three traversing area but in the second half of the morning sunshine will be break ing out but still sprinkle activity right now, drip drops across south jersey but western, pennsylvania, and , it has broken out and we will see that sunshine today as well as we head into midday becoming mostly sunny, windy, high temperature of 63 degrees and then for tonight mostly clear, meisha dropping down to 42 degrees. colder conditions as we head in the upcoming weekend. >> already, thanks very much for. that we are looking at accidents, they have basically been happening one after the other all morning long two accidents on 295 south pennsylvania route 541 on the shoulder and before 168, that one is also pulled off, to the shoulder there. then we have another accident 322 eastbound at route 541, kings highway is there a lane shift in place head up on that to slow you down. more construction coming up on 95 in a little bit. rahe

but i send it back to you in the studio. >> thank you, now we sends over to lauren casey in the weatherrence a day makes, sunshine and 60s yesterday. today, we do not. so taking live look right now at product heads ville in monroe county right now the snow coming down. snowy scene there with snow on the ground. and snowflakes flying past the camera there. 28 degrees, so that's going to create very slick spots, and temperatures will continue to fall throughout the morning across the area. storm scan3, pack in right now with free -- precipitation in philadelphia, the rain transitioned over to snow, seeing snow in the western suburbs, bushes county, lehigh valley, poconos, light rain over spreading south jersey right now, but we are going to see the transition over to snow really as we head into the next hour and still a lot of moisture upland, a lot of snowfall moving from west to east, and we should see snowfall rates over the next couple of hours of an inch per hour, temperatures are on the decline, at midnight upper 40's, at 37 degrees right now in philadelphia, and at the freezing mar

checking the forecast with lauren casey. starting off on wet note?tions, especially west of i95 corridor, seeing the rain coming down, light intensity, areas of drizzle, heavier rainfall over towards lancaster county there is area of precipitation will move its way eastbound shall so south jersey get ready for drops headed into the next couple of hours. areas of rain mainly, then sunshine breaking out as we head into the afternoon, 61 degrees, offer night tonight, meisha redevelop, even few rumbles, not too chilly falling back to 51 degrees. >> we have an accident on the schuylkill expressway, major slow downs, big part of the morning, now cleared. looking at the schuylkill eastbound conshohocken curve you can see what you're working with now that the accident has cleared out of the way, looking good east and westbound, still looking little slow. accident here, plumsteadville, between curly hill road and grove lands road, use route 611 and easton road, basically anywhere we look it is still slow. >> meisha, thank you. our next update is at clock 55,

meteorologist lauren casey in for kate today with some advisory in effect right now, lauren. >> thanks, ukee, like yesterday was not enough more snow moving across the area today and we have a winter weather advisory north and west of the city until 8:00 p.m. this evening, for snow showers, snow squals and blowing snow, whole bunch of fun but check this out, in northampton county a half inch of snowfall, in forks township in five minutes. these snow showers and snow squals mean business. storm scan three showing uses specialry on i-95 corridor and points south ande seeing most snowfall activity and we have seen those purple returns that is heavier snow, but when these snow showers move in and squalls they greatly reduce our visibility, on top of that we have a blowing snow, visibility down to a half mile in mount pocono, two and a half miles in allentown, visibility down to a mile in ac right now. we still do have these gusty wind, wind gusting in the 20's , 30 miles an hour range and we have a wind advisory, in effect until 8:00 p.m., and , it is going to be a tough commute. watch out

lauren casey is tracking when it arrives and what the start of spring has in store. right back. jape. joanne . >>> people across the region marked st. patrick's day. eyewitness was at the to annual ceremony at the irish on penns landing, mayor kenney gathered to celebrate and commemorate those who left ireland during time of hardship. step dancing and playing for the crowd. and of course st. patrick's day has a strong history in philadelphia >> that's why it's not surprising that our area is one of the best in the country to celebrate the holiday. nicole brewer is here now with some things you probably didn't know about this day. >> that's right. it's not surprising of course that pennsylvania is one of the top states for celebrating but which traditions are top and how far back do these festivities go? these are a few of the questions we answered in honor of the irish. >> street music and step dancing to old-fashioned celebrating when it comes to st. patrick's day in philly we fly our irish flag proudly >> the city gets together, everybody rallies. >> according to a new report

meteorologist lauren casey's live in center city and she joins with us proof of just how mild februaryuren. >> hi there kate. absolutely. i don't know if we can call it actual february because it was so mild. so much so that this poor tree behind me, it is totally confused, and it is already in bloom right now. it is a beautiful sight right by city hall but yeah, that tree is in bloom because we had our warmest february on record in philadelphia. our average temperature, 44.2 degrees, beating the previous top spot by a full 2 degrees. this caused our february snowfall total to take a big hit, climate wise february is our most snowy month, with an average of 8.8 inches but last month we picked up 2 inches of snowfall, and for our meteorological winter we are down 10.7 inches of snowfall. that is because our meteorological winter in philadelphia is sixth warmest on record and it is out of 1500 reporting sites across the country, 84 percent recorded warmer then average temperatures, for meteorological winter which encompasses month of december, january, february, but kate, after that extr

peco hopes to have power restored sometime this morning >>> now lets check the forecast with lauren caseyay. >> yeah, calm before some snow arrives as we head in the day tomorrow but before today a lot of sunshine in store 61 degrees, bit breezy as we head in the afternoon and then tonight dropping down to 36 degrees, rain, snow showers , developing, late, what to expect before tomorrow we will see wintry mix developing in the city by 6:00 w during the commute hours seven , eight, 9:00. coming up quick snow fall accumulations and we will start to taper off heading in to late morning but as we head in the afternoon we could see snow squalls redeveloping bringing us more in the way of measurable snowfall. tough go tomorrow 42 degrees, quiet for upcoming weekend as we spring, forward but much colder meisha with high temperatures in the 30's for saturday and sunday. >> yeah, all right lauren, thanks very much for. that i want to call your tension to this we have a train accident on the new jersey river line right now train verse car, suspended between walter rand and transportation center, an

casey. nbc 10's lauren make there was and shows us thousand meeting differs from others happening around the reporter: in philadelphia, a look at the sign that senator bob casey's town hall gives you an idea of what the audience was thinking. often turning the side that said, agree, toward the democratic senator, this crowd was largely friendly. >> senator, thank you for having a town unlike your counterpart in philadelphia. >> reporter: while some colleagues have faced loud opposition from crowds at town halls, here the audience often applauded as he addressed issues like russia. >> i have concerns about their impact on our election, i also have concerns about potential ties between the trump campaign and the russians. that's another one. >> reporter: the senator did get challenged today, not from the right, but on how to mobilize his own party and engage independents. >> what is the democratic party going to do to incorporate them and bring them on board? and try to win again. because you're not going to win an establishment-like streej. it's not. >> >> reporter: the senator told him he's