A winter weather advisory was up for Bucks, Chester, and Montgomery Counties for an expected 3 to 5 inches of snow, with perhaps 7 in Upper Bucks.
A winter weather advisory was up for Bucks, Chester, and Montgomery Counties for an expected 3 to 5 inches of snow, with perhaps 7 in Upper Bucks. It's been over three weeks since snow was seen in Philly.
This is a view looking out from the Art Museum of the Philadelphia skyline on Jan. 20, a day after it snowed.A possibly disruptive period of heavy snow, with wind gusts to 30 mph, was expected during the Tuesday morning commute, forecasters say, with several inches possible north and west of the city. Computer model runs on Monday were foreseeing a storm akin to a meteorological fireball exploding off the Mid-Atlantic coast during the morning, throwing back snow in defiance of the recent warm spell. Temperatures hit 50 degrees for the fifth consecutive day in Philly on Monday.was in effect for Bucks, Chester, and Montgomery Counties for an expected 3 to 5 inches of snow, and awas up until 10 a.m. Wednesday for areas along the Delaware River, and a warning for the Jersey Shore until 3 a.m. Wednesday for minor flooding.Snow accumulations could vary from nothing south and east of the city to several inches in Philly’s neighboring counties, and about the only certainty was that the totals were going to vary radically depending on temperatures and elevations.A mere separation of 15 miles could make all the difference in who gets what, said Tom Kines, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc. “We’ve been hemming and hawing all day,” he said. “I guarantee you we’ll be wrong somewhere on this.”Rain was expected to develop late Monday night and become mixed with and change to snow before or around daybreak, with heavy precipitation during the morning. AccuWeather was calling for 1 to 3 inches of snow in the immediate Philly area, and 3 to 5 in the outer northern and western suburbs. The National Weather Service was going with 1 to 2 inches in the city, and several inches in the Pennsylvania suburbs. Paul Dorian, an Arcfield meteorologist based in Valley Forge, was predicting 3 to 6 across the entire region.It’s been warm and it is forecast to stay above freezing during the snowfall in the immediate Philly area. It will be cold enough for snow at the 5,000-foot level, said Kines, and snow can stick when it’s above 32 degrees at the surface. By coating the ground, it creates its own colder surface. But Kines said whether it’s 33 or 34 when it’s snowing could be crucial to how much accumulates in a given area.Elevated areas, such as Roxborough, Chestnut Hill, and the hilly areas of Philly’s neighboring Pennsylvania counties should see higher accumulations than areas to the south and east. Temperatures decrease subtly with height. Plus, where it’s hilly the snow has a shorter distance to fall, thus less time to melt.On Monday it was in the Tennessee Valley and was forecast to migrate into the ocean somewhere off the Mid-Atlantic coast and intensify rapidly. As it blows up, the potent northerly winds to the west of the center were to drawn in colder air, leading to the changeover. It remained unclear precisely where the storm would mature and how much it would intensify, and meteorologists say all that makes this a challenging forecast.
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