The National Weather Service warned of snow, at times heavy, continuing into the afternoon, with gusting winds that could produce “blizzard-like” conditions in some areas along the I-95 corridor.
for areas as nearby as Lancaster County, and recent computer guidance has been more bullish for snow in the immediate Philadelphia area.
Even though temperatures reached 60 degrees Friday and road-surface temperatures still were in the 40s Saturday, O’Brien said, snow and ice was sticking to the streets north and west of the city during the morning.” — a rapidly intensifying storm — is forecast to blow up sometime Saturday, generating strong winds from the northeast that would speed up the changeover process.“It looks like the colder air is coming in a little faster,” said Paul Walker, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc.
The storm center is expected to follow a track near the Mid-Atlantic coast, a tad east from earlier projections. As a result, that cold air would penetrate farther south than earlier forecasts had indicated,The weather service was forecasting just over 2 inches of snow in Philadelphia itself, with elevated neighborhoods such as Roxborough and Chestnut Hill likely experiencing higher totals than Center City and places closer to the Delaware River, Lee said.
Temperatures by daybreak Sunday — which won’t occur until after 7 a.m. thanks to the onset of daylight saving time — will drop to near 20 degrees in the city and the teens elsewhere. They are not expected to escape the 30s on Sunday. Worth noting is that this weekend marks the anniversaries of two of the most disruptive winter storms in the period of observation — the famous Blizzard of 1888, which paralyzed the Northeast, and the March 1993 “Superstorm,” during which Philadelphia set its record for a March snowfall, with 12 inches.
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