graded its \u201cwinter storm impact level\u201d at 3 out 5 \u2014 or \u201csignificant\u201d \u2014 for a swath of the region<\/a> that stretched from the Lehigh Valley to southeastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\nTiming<\/p>\n
Saturday morning, forecasts indicated a few light showers expected to move into the region later today, followed by a more organized round of precipitation this evening that will last into early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service said temperatures will warm up today, especially south and east of I-95, so the precipitation in those areas may start as rain and change over to snow later tonight and into the overnight.<\/p>\n
The heaviest snow is likely to fall after midnight, the latest forecast discussion said, which is a less disruptive time for most people.<\/p>\n
Snow should taper off fairly quickly early Sunday morning, ending from northwest to southeast.<\/p>\n
After an arctic cold front passes, strong northwest winds will move in, which could cause some blowing and drifting snow and make it feel much colder. <\/p>\n
The worst of those conditions is expected Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Totals tick up<\/p>\n
The main update to the forecast Saturday morning was a slight increase in expected snowfall, which led forecasters to expand the winter weather advisory both north and south.<\/p>\n
Across a large central area, forecasters now expect widespread snowfall totals of 3 to 5 inches. <\/p>\n
Some forecast models suggest a narrow area could see even higher amounts, possibly reaching warning-level snowfall, but that is still uncertain, especially since some precipitation may be lost during the change from rain to snow.<\/p>\n
For now, forecasters are sticking with a winter weather advisory for this region, though snowfall totals could end up near the higher end of that range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 The first true widespread snow of the season is on the doorstep. The Lehigh Valley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,59225,59226,59227,36981,59228,59229,59230,59231,59232],"class_list":["post-126986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county-winter-weather-advisory","tag-lehigh-valley-expected-snowfall-totals","tag-lehigh-valley-snow","tag-lehigh-valley-weather","tag-northampton-county-winter-weather-advisory","tag-saturday-snowfall","tag-snow-saturday-into-sunday-totals","tag-what-time-will-snow-start-tonight","tag-winter-weather-advisory-lehigh-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126986","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=126986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}