broke records today. >> let's go to first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. it's never been so woorm this day for parts of this -- warm on this day for parts of this year. >>> not just this area. multiple states. this is a widespread record-breaking event here. camera shaking a little bit here. it's south philly. i-95 as that southerly wind comes in here. it's down to 67 in philadelphia, 59 in wilmington, the winds coming in off delaware bay and the atlantic. seeing the 50s at the shore. still 70 in northeast philly and in allentown. so these were the records today. 74, philadelphia, tied a record. allentown broke a record. trenton broke a record. reading tied it. allentown's record, though, is the warmest temperature ever recorded in february. that is impressive. one more warm day, and then a big change. we'll get it down to you hour by hour coming up. >> enjoy the warmth while you can. >>> this just in, prison time for one of the two owners of the popular jersey shore pizza place manco and manco. in the past hour, charles bang emwas sentenced to -- bangle was se

"hurricane" schwartz joins us tracking the warmth. >> yeah, if you didn't get a chance to get outside, enjoy the nice, warm weather today, you can do it again tomorrow. if you miss it tomorrow, you'll have at least a number of hours on saturday. we have a beautiful -- a beautiful day. temperatures have dropped now into the 60s across most of the area. down to 59. atlantic city international and even at the airport there, they were into the 70s. we got up to 73 degrees today in philadelphia, just shy of the record. allentown tied a record. reading broke a record. friday we're close to the record. saturday in the 70s. and then the temperature drops. we're not seeing much in the way of rain for tonight but we do for a part of the weekend. i'll time that out for you coming up. >>> road rage. a retired upper gwynedd police officer is facing charges from his former department after he fired a gun. owen farmer is now accuseded of shooting a glock pistol at a bmw suv, hurting a 15-year-old girl inside. farmer says it started when his stepdaughter got in road rage fight and the car followed he

. glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> we do have some cooler air coming in. you can see the flag blowing. that is from the direction that generally brings colder air and it will be getting colder as we head through the niemt. it's down to 47 in ooemt so that's considerable drop just in the last hour. 54 in philadelphia, 52 in wilmington. wilmington was 60 just a couple of hours ago. so the temperatures are going down. the wind as you can see coming out of the north, northwest and it's not that strong. it's five to ten-mile-per-hour so it's going to take all night to get some of that colder air in. we have clear skies around here just some high thin clouds out to the west. and so tomorrow morning, it's going to be a lot colder than it was this morning. it was 43 in philadelphia this morning. now we're talking about 10 degrees colder by tomorrow morning, a couple spots even getting down into the 20s but then we go right back up and i'll tell you about that in a few minutes. >>> a billboard shaming philadelphia's mayor and top school officials could be on i-95 one week from today. we told y

the blue cross river rink. glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking the weather. >> his most accurate forecast has gone all spring on us. >> that's right. what a beautiful picture to start that weekend off. this is a live picture from cape may. the best sunsets always come with some sorts of clouds. it really looks like a painting. but it is a real life picture. it's 40 in atlantic city now. down to 35 in vineland. 42 in philadelphia. 34 in coatesville. so yeah, it's going to be kind of chilly this evening and overnight tonight. but not so much tomorrow. we hit 45 for the high today after 39 yesterday. going up into the mid 60s both saturday and sunday. it's more typical of april temperatures. as we go through the night tonight, it doesn't get all that cold in most parts of the area. certainly dry. there's very little wind. just the beginning of a spectacular weekend. we'll see how long that lasts into next week coming up. >> all right. glenn. >>> new at 6:00, an 8-year-old girl is in the hospital after she was stabbed in the face. we just got off the phone with the police chief in de

there for the skaters right now. let's go to chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. people will have to bundle up for their plans tonight? >> yeah, it was a really cold day today. the high temperature 32. it's about ten degrees below normal. the clouds, though, tonight that's going to be one of the reasons that the temperature is not going to drop very much. 32 in philadelphia now. 28 in allentown. and in coatesville. and that's about as low as it's going to get tonight. but we do have some returns on radar. now just about all of this is not reaching the ground because the low levels of the atmosphere are so dry. but there could be some snow flurries in parts of the higher elevations, especially. that's what the future cast computer is showing us, berks county, but especially the poconos seeing flurries over the next few hours and then it's gone. that's the end of that threat. because the atmosphere is warming up. temperatures going up as we go through the night tonight with the cloudy skies, no significant precipitation expected. different story over the weekend. we'll get

meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz and the most accurate first alert neighborhood forecast, glenn? >> yeah, jacqueline, the flag is not just blowing strongly, it's blowing left to right. from this angle, that's a cold wind. the opposite way is the warm wind. we'll be getting into that before too long. but it's 28 degrees in philadelphia now. 23 in allentown. that doesn't tell the whole story. because we still have a lot of wind out of the northwest. as you saw with those flags. still gusting at 36 miles an hour in atlantic city. 39 miles an hour in dover. that's not quite as gusty as it was a few hours ago when it was up to 52 miles an hour in cape may. look at what happened here. yesterday at 3:00, it was 66 degrees. remember, records all over the place. by 5:00 this morning, it was feeling like 32. and by 9:00 this morning feeling like 16. that's a 50 degree drop in 18 hours. no wonder it feels freezing cold by the time you go outside. the temperature, as we go through the evening, dropping through the 20s. feels like temperature, dropping to 10 by 11:00 and single digits by mor

cover what is set to become the biggest snow storm this winter. glen hurricane schwartz is tracking the weather for where you live. >> this is going to be a very unusual snow storm that's going to be very intense for a very short period of time, compared to the average snow storm. but that intensity is coming right at the morning rush. kind of worst time, 5:00 to 9:00 a.m. will be the worst of it. at that point, 2 to 3 inches per hour at the peak of the storm, with thundersnow possible, low visibility, snow covered roads, at the height of this storm tomorrow morning, nobody is going anywhere. and the areas that are getting the heavy snow. here it comes. from the west, starting off as snow. redding and allentown, but rain or a mixture towards the philadelphia area. that makes it harder to pretreat because of this storm. but it's eventually going to be changing to snow as colder air comes down from the north. the darker blue indicates the heavier snow. right at 6:00 a.m., it's coming down hard. it's windy, then temperature is dropping. heavy snow can stick on the roads even though it'

and heading our way. let's get right to glenn "hurricane" schwartz. time this out for us. >> unfortunately, the worst of this storm looks like it will occur during the morning rush on thursday. that's one of the reasons we've issued the first alert for the entire area except for the jersey shore and the delaware beaches where it may snow but it was likely melt. 4:00 a.m. to noon on thursday, not tomorrow. accumulating snow heavy at times. during the morning rush with slick roads and poor visibility. as we go through the day tomorrow, tomorrow evening, no problems, but overnight tomorrow night and into thursday morning, that's when the cold air's coming down from the north, the moisture comes in from the west and it adds up to a snowy morning rush. 6:00 a.m., the darker blue indicating the heavier snow. so it's accumulating during that period all the way down to central delaware and into much of new jersey. but this is not a long-lasting storm. and by noontime or early afternoon, it is tapering off and moving out, limiting the snow totals to some degree. the precipitation