Forecasters are becoming more confident that a significant storm could impact the Lehigh Valley over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, has been monitoring a system that could hit the area Saturday into Sunday and bring several inches of snow into the area.<\/p>\n
A map released Wednesday by the weather service showed the Lehigh Valley having a roughly 70% chance of 6 inches of snow or more. South of the region, closer to Philadelphia, has a higher likelihood. Snowfall could begin Saturday and continue into early Monday morning, but forecasters said specifics will become more clear over the next few days.<\/p>\n
A lot of uncertainty still remains regarding the total snow amounts, and it depends on how the system appears to be tracking, according to the weather service.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwenty-four hours ago this looked like more of a question of a near \u2018miss\u2019 to the south vs. a big snowstorm,\u201d forecasters wrote Wednesday morning in their daily forecast discussion<\/a>. \u201cNow it`s looking like a more or less a lock that this storm will affect the area with significant (precipitation) with the question then shifting to whether the track actually gets too far north to bring a mix or changeover into the area.\u201d<\/p>\n After last weekend\u2019s snowfall<\/a>, 16.7 inches of snow have fallen in the Lehigh Valley this winter, which is about an inch less than what fell all last season.<\/a> Snowfall for this time of year for the region is normally about 11 inches, according to weather service data.<\/p>\n The rest of the week should be clear and cold, with lows reaching the single digits again Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n Here is the extended forecast from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 41. West wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.<\/p>\n Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 31. West wind 5 to 15 mph.<\/p>\n Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 16.<\/p>\n Sunday: Snow. High near 17. Chance of precipitation is 80%.<\/p>\n Monday: A chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 23. Chance of precipitation is 30%.<\/p>\n Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forecasters are becoming more confident that a significant storm could impact the Lehigh Valley over the weekend. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":{"0":"post-92780","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","11":"tag-lehigh-county","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northampton-county","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-top-stories-tmc","17":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92780","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=92780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}