The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Northeast Pennsylvania from late Monday night through Tuesday evening. Snowfall amounts of 6 inches or more are possible.<\/p>\n
The storm watch includes the counties of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Wayne, Schuylkill, Susquehanna and Wyoming.<\/p>\n
Monday is expected to start off mostly sunny with a high around 36 and a northwest wind. Monday night, snow is likely after 4 a.m., and temperatures will dip to about 22<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, snow could be heavy at times, with high temperatures around 35 and a southeast wind. The chance of precipitation is 100%.<\/p>\n
The NWS says Tuesday night should be mostly cloudy, with a low around 23.<\/p>\n
Any snow that does fall is likely to hang around for a while. Highs near 36 are expected Wednesday and Thursday, and the forecast calls for frigid conditions Thursday night, with a low around 11. High temperatures Friday likely won\u2019t exceed the high 20s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Northeast Pennsylvania from late Monday night through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,139,178,180,179,181,1133],"class_list":{"0":"post-48745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-scranton","11":"tag-scranton-headlines","12":"tag-scranton-news","13":"tag-top-stories-stt","14":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745","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=48745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}