{"id":50513,"date":"2025-12-02T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50513\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:30:11","slug":"how-much-snow-did-the-lehigh-valley-get-whats-next-after-crash-filled-snow-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50513\/","title":{"rendered":"How much snow did the Lehigh Valley get? What\u2019s next after crash-filled snow day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A winter weather system moving through the Lehigh Valley on Tuesday brought a mix of precipitation \u2014 snow, freezing rain and plain rain.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service<\/a> Winter Weather Advisory for the Lehigh Valley expired early Tuesday afternoon. Another advisory expiring at 3 p.m. for the Pocono region warned of the potential for a light glazing of ice with the dwindling snowfall.<\/p>\n

Reports to the weather service by 1 p.m. listed snowfall totals for the following vicinities:<\/p>\n

Carbon CountyPalmerton, 3.7 inchesJim Thorpe, 3.4 inchesLehigh CountyWashington Township, 4 inchesNorth Whitehall Township, 2 inchesWescosville, 1.3 inchesLehigh Valley International Airport, 0.8 inchesSalisbury Township, 0.8 inchesMonroe CountySaylorsburg, 4.3 inchesPocono Summit, 3.5 inchesMount Pocono, 3.4 inchesScotrun, 3.2 inchesNorthampton CountyBangor, 3 inchesPen Argyl, 2.5 inchesMoore Township, 2.2 inchesNazareth, 2.2 inchesBushkill Township, 1.8 inchesMartins Creek, 1.6 inchesWarren CountyBlairstown Township, 2.2 inchesHackettstown, 0.5 inchesStewartsville, 0.5 inches<\/p>\n

The forecast was serious enough for schools, colleges, universities and businesses across the area to close<\/a> their doors Tuesday. <\/p>\n

And the wintry precipitation did indeed wreak havoc on local roads. <\/p>\n

Emergency radio broadcasts indicated accidents occurred on highways including Routes 22 and 33 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 476); crashes into homes about 9:50 a.m. in Stockertown and 1 p.m. in the Bangor area; a rollover crash about 9:20 a.m. on South Delaware Drive (Route 611) in Williams Township and numerous tractor-trailers stuck around noon on Route 309 in the New Tripoli area. <\/p>\n

Also around 1 p.m. in Lehigh Township, firefighters reported pulling a man from a vehicle that had caught fire following a collision on Lehigh Drive (Route 248) near Locust Drive. <\/p>\n

Details of the crashes were not immediately available. <\/p>\n

Temperatures across the region ranged from near freezing in the Poconos to the low 40s along the I-95 corridor. As the low-pressure system departs late Tuesday evening, northwest winds will increase, creating breezy and cold conditions overnight. <\/p>\n

Temperatures dropping below freezing overnight into Wednesday have the potential to freeze any standing water, making for continued treacherous conditions.<\/p>\n

Wednesday will be significantly colder, with high temperatures in the mid-30s to mid-40s and continued northwest winds. Residents should be prepared for potential black ice conditions, especially north of I-78, where melting snow and slush may refreeze overnight. Skies will be clear, but the wind chill will make temperatures feel even colder.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, Thursday will bring partly cloudy skies and continued cold temperatures, with highs in the 30s and 40s. Thursday night is expected to be extremely cold, with potential single-digit temperatures in the Poconos and teens across eastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The extended forecast suggests a pattern of below-average temperatures will persist through the weekend, with a potential for another weather system Friday night that could bring additional wintry precipitation.<\/p>\n

Current weather radar<\/p>\n

Generative AI was used to produce an initial draft of this story, which was reviewed and edited by lehighvalleylive.com<\/a> staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A winter weather system moving through the Lehigh Valley on Tuesday brought a mix of precipitation \u2014 snow,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-50513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50513","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=50513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}