{"id":120444,"date":"2026-02-22T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120444\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:05:08","slug":"traffic-watch-69-news-traffic-reports-as-region-sees-snow-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120444\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAFFIC: Watch 69 News traffic reports as region sees snow | Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulletin: &#8230;POTENTIALLY HISTORIC WINTER STORM WILL IMPACT THE REGION THROUGH<br \/>\nMONDAY&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>.A major winter storm is expected to develop today, impacting the<br \/>\nregion with very heavy, crippling snowfall and areas of blizzard<br \/>\nconditions. Precipitation will develop today, changing to all snow<br \/>\nthis afternoon and evening. The most severe conditions and heaviest<br \/>\nsnowfall will occur tonight, with snow gradually tapering off during<br \/>\nthe daytime Monday. Record breaking snowfall totals are possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO<br \/>\n6 PM EST MONDAY&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* WHAT&#8230;Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 16<br \/>\nand 22 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.<\/p>\n<p>* WHERE&#8230;Eastern Chester, Western Chester, and Western Montgomery<br \/>\nCounties.<\/p>\n<p>* WHEN&#8230;From 7 AM this morning to 6 PM EST Monday.<\/p>\n<p>* IMPACTS&#8230;Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Areas of<br \/>\nblowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. The hazardous<br \/>\nconditions will impact the Monday morning and evening commutes.<br \/>\nGusty winds could bring down tree branches and result in isolated<br \/>\npower outages.<\/p>\n<p>* ADDITIONAL DETAILS&#8230;Snowfall rates could exceed 2 inches per<br \/>\nhour. Locally higher snowfall amounts possible. Blowing and<br \/>\ndrifting of snow, and whiteout conditions possible.<\/p>\n<p>PRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in<br \/>\nyour vehicle in case of an emergency. The latest road conditions for<br \/>\nthe state you are calling from can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>Info: <\/p>\n<p>Type: Winter Storm Warning<\/p>\n<p>start_time_local: 2026-02-22T07:00:00-05:00<\/p>\n<p>end_time_local: 2026-02-23T18:00:00-05:00<\/p>\n<p>county_name: <\/p>\n<p>state: PA<\/p>\n<p>headline: Winter Storm Warning from SUN 7:00 AM EST until MON 6:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>county_fips: <\/p>\n<p>category: Met<\/p>\n<p>url: <\/p>\n<p>urgency: Expected<\/p>\n<p>severity: Severe<\/p>\n<p>certainty: Likely<\/p>\n<p>geographicname: Western Montgomery County<\/p>\n<p>state_name: Pennsylvania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulletin: &#8230;POTENTIALLY HISTORIC WINTER STORM WILL IMPACT THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY&#8230; .A major winter storm is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[279,153,155,154,805,36339,28,1704],"class_list":["post-120444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-berks","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehighvalley","tag-newjersey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120444","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=120444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}