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Blizzard Warning Starts 7pm, 18-24in; Free Xfinity Wifi Hotspots; Officer Hartnett Out of Hospital

by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA
started: 01/22/16 8:29 pm | updated: 01/23/16 6:35 am

A Blizzard Warning will now go into effect from Friday at 7 p.m. to Sunday at 10 a.m. The storm is coming in earlier and the National Weather Service has increased the expected snow totals in our area to 18-24". Philadelphia has declared a snow emergency starting at 9pm Friday night. All cars must be cleared from snow emergency routes by that time or they will be towed. SEPTA will shutdown most services starting at 4 am Saturday morning including Regional Rail, bus and trolley lines, and the Norristown High Speed Line. The Market Frankford El and the Broad Street line will operate as usual. They will reevaluate restoring service starting for 4 am Sunday. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is returning from New Hampshire to deal with the storm instead of staying on the campaign trail.

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Comcast is opening up it's extensive Xfinity wifi hotspot network to the public in the Northeast during the storm. The network is usually only available to Xfinity subscribers with a login and password. The thousands of hotspots are located in many public places and are discoverable on your devices.

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Philadelphia Police Officer Jesse Hartnett was released from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center today. Hartnett was ambushed two weeks ago while sitting in his patrol car in West Philadelphia by Edward Archer. He was shot three times in the left arm that required multiple surgeries to repair. Officer Hartnett still faces a long recovery. Archer confessed to police that he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and that the shooting was an assassination. He is awaiting a preliminary hearing.

Tonight,
Heavy snow and wind, blizzard warning, temperatures in the upper 20's

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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA | responded: 01/22 8:33 pm

National Weather Service "worst case scenario"

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by: iradioal - Philadelphia, PA | responded: 01/22 8:40 pm

... BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EST SUNDAY...

* HAZARD TYPES... HEAVY SNOW... GUSTY WINDS AND BLOWING SNOW RESULTING IN TIMES OF BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS... 18 TO 24 INCHES.

* TIMING... SNOW IS EXPECTED TO OVERSPREAD THE AREA FROM SOUTH TO NORTH IN THE DELMARVA BETWEEN 3 PM AND 6 PM... BETWEEN 5 PM AND 9 PM IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. THE SNOW WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES THROUGH LATE SATURDAY BEFORE TAPERING OFF BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE STRONGEST WINDS AND GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL BE DURING THE DAY SATURDAY.

* WINDS... NORTHEAST TO NORTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH.

* TEMPERATURES... IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S.

* VISIBILITIES... ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES.

* IMPACTS... THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY SNOWFALL AND STRONG WINDS WILL PRODUCE WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TRAVEL. SHOVELING OF HEAVY WET SNOW WILL BE PROBLEMATIC FOR THOSE WITH PHYSICAL AILMENTS. SNOW WILL CLING TO WIRES AND TREES WHICH COULD CAUSE NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES. ROADS WILL BECOME IMPASSABLE ESPECIALLY DUE TO INCREASING SNOWFALL RATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR AT TIMES IN HEAVIER BANDS. THE SNOW LOOKS TO COME IN EARLY ENOUGH TO IMPACT THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING COMMUTE IN THE DELMARVA AND FAR SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS... MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL... HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED... STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE.

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... A MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL AFFECT THE REGION TONIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY...
.STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK TO OUR SOUTH AND EAST TONIGHT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT BRINGING HEAVY SNOWFALL... STRONG WINDS AND LIKELY BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TO MUCH OF OUR AREA.

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