Snow Moves Into the Region; Up to 24 Inches of Snow For Weekend

OLD CITY (WTXF) - Snow moved into the area Friday evening. The National Weather Service issued a Blizzard Warning for parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

The Philadelphia region is still expected to get 12-18 inches overall, but numbers could reach as high as 18-24 inches in some parts of the area.

Meanwhile, the city of Philadelphia has declared a Snow Emergency.

Of course, a whole other set of problems come with the high wind down there and coastal flooding because it is a full moon this weekend, Saturday in particular.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf declared a state of emergency in Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, while the city declared a snow emergency Friday at noon. Delaware declared a State of Emergency as well on Friday afternoon.

New Jersey Go. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency for New Jersey ahead of the blizzard and flooding.

We're most likely to have power outages because of the high wind bringing down that heavy, wet snow. It is supposed to be that consistency of snow that is very difficult to shovel and can bring trees and power lines down pretty easily with winds gusting to 40 to 60 miles an hour. That is a problem.

We may have a break in the action about midday Saturday.

Hopefully, you can hunker down all day on Saturday.

It's still uncertain where that rain-band will set up as it creeps up from south to north, and there is the possibility of a dry slot.

We're expecting wind to gust, and whatever falls will be blowing around.

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Our snow map hasn't changed much, with the bullseye being on the Baltimore-Washington area, where they will get the brunt of the storm. We're not that far away, but we are expecting a foot or more of snow in most local areas.

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