A winter storm is set to hit the Philadelphia region on Monday, bringing varying amounts of snow depending on location. While the city and western suburbs may see 2 to 4 inches, areas south and east, particularly Delaware and South Jersey, could receive 6 inches or more.
Amounts will be higher to the south of Philly, with several inches likely in Delaware and South Jersey . Having already clinched at least a tie for 138th place in the 141-year period of snow records in Philly, the winter of 2024-25 almost certainly will move up in the standings on Monday with the advertisement of the season for the city and the western suburbs and areas to the south, for 3 and perhaps up to 6 inches of snow.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the city say they are ready for whatever makes it to the ground. But it’s also all but certain that the snow totals are going to have an upside-down look, with the highest totals in Delaware and South Jersey, and a virtual dry wall not too far north of Philly where amounts would be dramatically lower. Figuring out just where the snow will encounter that wall is going to be a forecast “headache,” said Mike Lee, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly. “It’s a tug-of-war.” In its late-day update Saturday, the weather service cautioned: “Small changes in forecast track of the storm will mean potentially large changes in total snow amount.”The answer is likely to be a moving target even as the snow is falling on Monday, the eve of the As much as 6 to 10 inches could accumulate in a narrow 30-mile band on Monday, said Bob Larsen, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc. He said it was likely that band would set up in a corridor from Baltimore to near Wilmington. AccuWeather is predicting 2 to 4 inches in the city, with 6 and perhaps a little more in Delaware and South Jersey. That includes the Shore: This is not a nor’easter coastal storm that would generate strong, warming winds off the ocean. It is a massive storm moving west to east with moisture interacting with very cold air from the north. “There’s no snow/rain line to worry about with this storm,” Larsen said
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