One meteorologist calls it a “recipe for winter precipitation.”
A large winter storm brought heavy snow to parts of Pennsylvania today, wreaking havoc on the turnpike and covering the fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles in white.
The National Weather Service placed Philadelphia and extreme southeastern Pennsylvania under a winter storm warning, saying the region could get 3 to 6 inches of snow.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike reported multiple crashes in south-central and southeastern Pennsylvania, with some of the accidents blocking traffic entirely.
The snow fell so heavily in Philadelphia that yard markers at Lincoln Financial Field were completely obscured. It was almost as bad in Pittsburgh, where the snow intensified after opening kickoff. Workers in both stadiums used hand-held snow blowers, to little effect.
Other parts of the state, including the Lehigh Valley, are expected to get 1 to 3 inches before a changeover to sleet and freezing rain later tonight into Monday morning. Ice accumulations could range from a trace to up to two-tenths of an inch.
State transportation crews began putting a brine solution on major roadways on Saturday in anticipation of the storm.
The slow-moving storm prompted officials today in Virginia and parts of Maryland to urge residents to stay off the roads and forced scattered airport delays and cancellations.
The National Weather Service said a high pressure system from North Carolina north to New England is being fed by disturbances from the southwest and moist air off the Atlantic.
One meteorologist calls it a “recipe for winter precipitation.”
