{"id":87455,"date":"2026-01-15T12:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:39:15","slug":"philadelphia-weather-messy-thursday-morning-leads-to-frigid-temperature-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87455\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia weather: Messy Thursday morning leads to frigid temperature drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8p0vjeeac4e63gmo.jpg\" alt=\"Weather Authority: Thursday forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A messy Thursday morning commute in Philadelphia will see rain switch to light snow as temperatures begin to plunge ahead of a blustery start to the weekend.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Widespread rain showers moved into the Philadelphia area early Thursday morning and lead to some spotty snow showers as mild temperatures turned brisk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Forecasters expect the wintry mix to linger throughout the morning before heading east and offshore sometime before noon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Temperatures will tumble in the wake of the wet weather, dropping into the 30s during the day with frigid air from the Midwest that will make it feel even colder.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A sunny and blustery start to the weekend on Friday will lead to another wintry mix on Saturday and a dusting of snow on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Some of the coldest temperatures of the winter are expected next week, with highs in the 30s on MLK Day that will drop into the 20s on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A messy Thursday morning commute in Philadelphia will see rain switch to light snow as temperatures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139,539,69,71,70,593,1133],"class_list":{"0":"post-87455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87455","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=87455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}