{"id":96768,"date":"2026-01-26T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/96768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:04:08","slug":"major-winter-storm-dumps-snow-on-lehigh-valley-as-extreme-cold-moves-in-for-the-week-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/96768\/","title":{"rendered":"Major winter storm dumps snow on Lehigh Valley as extreme cold moves in for the week (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The anticipated snow storm has arrived. <\/p>\n

According to the National Weather Service<\/a>, the Lehigh Valley area is under a Winter Storm Warning<\/a> through 1 p.m. Monday, with up to 10 inches of snow in some areas. <\/p>\n

The snow began falling after 3 a.m. Sunday. By 5:30 a.m. in Easton, the streets and walkways were coated in snow.<\/p>\n

By 6:30 a.m. plow and salt trucks were working the roads around Centre Square in Easton. <\/p>\n

According to AccuWeather<\/a>, snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour were expected to last through midday Sunday. The snow will mix with sleet at times Sunday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n

The last major snowfall that hit the Lehigh Valley was back on Feb. 1, 2021, when the Lehigh Valley International Airport recorded 22.4 inches of snow. <\/p>\n

The most recent storm that left 9-12 inches of snow was back on Feb. 13, 2024. <\/p>\n

The Lehigh Valley will be battling not just the snow, but the cold, too.<\/p>\n

Temperatures will remain below freezing with wind chills bellow zero degrees through this week. <\/p>\n

Ways to protect yourself from the harmfully cold temperatures: <\/p>\n

Check out the gallery above to see scenes from the area\u2019s snow storm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The anticipated snow storm has arrived. According to the National Weather Service, the Lehigh Valley area is under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-96768","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\/96768","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=96768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}