Snow sparing rush hour
Looks to hold off a few hours; forecast amounts down at tad.
Some flake and ice-pellet sightings have been reported around the region, but the accumulating snow looks to hold off until after dark.
"We're okay for rush hour," said Tony Gigi, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly.
He added that the weather service is adjusting its forecast for the immediate Philadelphia area from 4 to 8 to 4 to 6 inches.
It's snowing aloft, he said, but most of the flakes are evaporating before they reach the ground. The steady, accumualting snow is still in southern Maryland.
This is a complex weather system, and most of the snow is expected to fall in a compressed period between about 9 p.m. and 3 a.m.
The main storm is forecast to intensify off the New Jersey coast, and exactly where it does and how deep it becomes will determine the how much snow gets thrown back toward Philadelphia.
Early indications are, however, that the higher amounts in the forecast this morning may be out of reach.