Snow, ice to trigger harmful journey situations in Philadelphia space Friday — timing and snow totals

You’ll need to keep off the roads Friday night and in a single day into Saturday as a result of a powerful winter storm is approaching the Philadelphia area. Be the place you might want to be by 3 p.m. on Friday in the event you can!

Friday morning might be cloudy with temperatures under freezing. A NEXT Weather Alert is in impact from 3 p.m. Friday by way of 10 a.m. Saturday due to doubtlessly harmful climate. 

A winter storm warning is in impact for the Poconos and components of the Lehigh Valley, and a winter climate advisory is in place for the rest of the Philly space and far of Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia.

Here are crucial issues to find out about this storm:

• The risk of freezing rain and ice is what makes this system so harmful.
• This begins in our space after 3 p.m. Friday and ends between 6 and 10 a.m. Saturday. (Warnings for the western a part of the state start at 10 a.m. Friday.)
• The heavier snow line has shifted barely north. However, relying on the place you reside, there could possibly be heavy snow, a snow/sleet mixture, a snow/freezing rain mixture, or primarily rain with moist snow.
• The precipitation could begin as all snow, besides in southern Delaware and South Jersey, which is able to get rain.
• In Philly, precipitation will shift between snow, sleet and freezing rain.
• Any snow totals will embody each the sleet and snow.
• The heaviest snow might be north of a line from the Lehigh Valley to North Jersey and New York.
• Philly, Southeast Pennsylvania and components of South Jersey are on the fringe of the snow/sleet line with shoveling snow potential.
• Roads throughout the area might be harmful in locations from both snowpack or as much as 0.2 inch of ice.

The messy climate might trigger delays and cancellations on the airport in addition to delays on trains and buses. Scattered energy outages might happen, too.

Snow-sleet totals

These will change if the observe modifications.

• 4–8 inches (All snow): Parts of the Lehigh Valley, Poconos
• 2–4 inches (snow and sleet): Parts of Lehigh Valley, Northeast Philly, Bucks, Burlington, Mercer counties
• 1–2 inches (snow, sleet, as much as 0.2 inch freezing rain): Philadelphia, I-95, Montgomery, Berks, Delaware, New Castle, Gloucester, Camden, Atlantic counties
• Coating–1 inch (snow, sleet, as much as 0.2 inch freezing rain): Salem, Cumberland, New Castle, Berks, Chester, Atlantic counties
• Rain: Cape May, Kent counties

What comes NEXT?

Another storm system on Sunday evening will carry rain to the area, adopted by one other bitterly chilly blast subsequent week for the ultimate week of 2025.

Here’s your 7-day forecast:

Friday/Kwanzaa: NEXT Weather Alert for afternoon/night snow and ice. High 31, low 26.

Saturday: NEXT Weather Alert for morning snow and ice. High 34, low 29.  

Sunday: Chance of rain late. High 39, low 28.

Monday: Mild with showers. High 50, low 38.

Tuesday: Very chilly. High 34, low 28.

Wednesday/New Year’s Eve: Chilly finish to 2025. High 37, low 26.

Thursday/New Year’s Day: Cold begin to 2026. High 32, low 24.

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