glenn "hurricane" schwartz tells us how long the rain will last in his most accurate first alert neighborhood forecast. >> this area of rain has nothing to do with the severe weather we're talking about for tomorrow. this is a separate area. you can see it's really knocked down the visible out there. some of this rain is on the heavy side, not just where jim is in washington. look at this. in parts of chester county, delaware county, south philly, center city getting some moderate to heavy rain right now. now, this is not going to last all night, but as you can see it's moving straight west to east. and so the same areas are getting hit by the heaviest rain over and over again. so you're going to be getting a good bit of rain in philadelphia and much of delaware. in the lehigh valley, you're getting nothing. back to the west, you can see there's more rain coming in ohio. maybe the lehigh valley will get a little bit of that later on tonight. as we go through the night tonight, you can see the future weather computer showing the heaviest rain in central and southern delaware. extr

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

really is. chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking a stretch of 70s. we know you're the most accurate in town. there's no doubt it will feel like spring very soon. >> reporter: yeah, no doubt that the temperatures are going to be getting at or above 70 degrees in many parts of the area over the next few days. if you look to the west, it's coming this way. beautiful sunset. at least parts of the area. clouds in the western sky help with that. the temperature generally in the 50s in most of the area. dover, 48. one of the cool spots with the wind coming in off of delaware bay. the temperature today got up to 58 degrees after 52 yesterday. and now we're going to the 70s. starting tomorrow, going all the way into saturday and again it looks like we're going to add it all up for the month of february and be the warmest ever recorded. we have some clouds here, the showers are way to the north and not going to be moving in this direction. we start off the day tomorrow with fog, very mild start, and then temperatures getting up near 70 degrees. those are just 4:00 temperatur

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