National Weather Service
How much snow is forecast to fall Saturday around the Philadelphia region. (Click map to enlarge a little.)
UPDATE: 1 to 3 inches expected (See http://bit.ly/wiQtTK)
Expect to see some snow Saturday in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties.
It's likely to be light, at first mixed with rain in the morning, followed by a midday round of just light rain, then just light snow after nightfall.
The most hazardous time for drivers might be Saturday night, as temperatures plunge from a high in the upper 30s into the teens, potentially turning wet spots into ice on back roads and side streets.
For most of the region, the event should start tonight as light rain, before cold air sweeps in overnight. Warmer areas, like the Shore, might not see a transition to a wintry mix or snow at all. The city and nearby South Jersey might get a half-inch, while areas to the west and north could get an inch or more, before skies clear Saturday night.
Those amounts would be a little less than what whitened lawns Wednesday across the region, from a coating at the Shore to two inches in parts of Chester, Montgomery and Berks Counties.
Lancaster and Wilkes-Barre, though, are expected to get two inches this time.
Saturday morning and afternoon drivers might find the new snow mostly a nuisance, making for wet roads and diminished visibility.
Even at its heaviest, “it’s going to be a wet, gloppy snow. It’s not going to stick too well,” said meteorologist Greg Heavener, of the National Weather Service.
No sleet or freezing rain is expected, and winds should be relatively tame.
“It’s going to be a fairly smooth transition from rain to a rain-snow mix to snow,” he said.
No further snow is in the forecast.
Sunday and Monday will be colder, with highs in the low 30s, and lows in the low to mid 20s.
Temperature will warm into the 40s Tuesday and Wednesday, possibly reaching 50 Thursday.
For more on the forecast, go to http://go.philly.com/weather.
For more weather discussion, see Tony Wood’s “Weather or Not” blog at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/weather.
Contact staff writer Peter Mucha at 215-854-434 or pmucha@phillynews.com.
