Temperatures are expected to reach 40 this weekend, which has lots of folks giving their cars a much-needed wash.<\/p>\n
BLAKELY, Pa. \u2014 Temperatures are finally warming up. Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania just busted an 18-day streak of below-freezing temperatures. For the Williamsport area, it was the second-longest of all time. In the Scranton area, it was the sixth-longest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That means many people across northeast and central Pennsylvania are finally getting all the salt and dirt off their vehicles. \u00a0<\/p>\n
John was out washing his truck to make sure it was clean for the mechanic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I like to take care of my vehicles in the weather with all the salt and the dirt that gets on them and beneath them too. I like to combat the rust a little bit,” John said.<\/p>\n
He said this year’s cold and snow have made him wash his truck a lot more than in recent memory. Ryan Kasper, the manager of Kwik-N-Ezy Car Wash in Blakely, tells Newswatch 16 that it’s busier because of the slightly warmer weather.<\/p>\n
“We love having the warm temperatures coming because when the sun’s out, we’ll be busy the whole time,” Kasper said.<\/p>\n
Kesper said a lot of people hold back from cleaning this time of year because of the threat of ice locking their doors.<\/p>\n
“We’re getting a lot more business now because more people are comfortable washing their car. Most people don’t have a garage and are worried about their cars freezing over, ” Kasper said.<\/p>\n
Ryan estimates 50 cars came through this past Sunday when the high was near 10 degrees. On a day like Thursday with temps near freezing, he estimates 250 cars will come through. Ryan says it takes temperatures below 10 degrees to cause a problem at the wash. Ryan says they briefly had to close this past weekend because of the cold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We use a warm rinse so most of the time. If you have that light thin layer of ice, it’ll come off,” Kasper said.<\/p>\n
Leonard Turissini is one of those people catching up with the lull in cold and snow. He just came back from a road trip.<\/p>\n
“The wife always wants the car washed. But when it’s too cold, you can’t do it,” Turissini said.<\/p>\n
Temperatures will climb even more this weekend. The Stormtracker16 weather team expects many in Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania to be above 40 degrees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temperatures are expected to reach 40 this weekend, which has lots of folks giving their cars a much-needed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-112441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}