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The Hoff, unforgivably, takes Justin Bieber for a ride in K.I.T.T.Let's take a look.

Precipitation begins by 4 or 5am Monday.  We will mainly see freezing rain (which falls as plain rain, but freezes on contact with surfaces, power lines, trees, and whatnot) with some sleet mixed in (which falls as frozen pellets, accumulating as it falls).  The result looks like potentially significant icing, with up to a tenth of an inch of ice accumulation.

4-6am, sleet and snow

6-8am, sleet

8-10am, sleet and freezing rain

10am-12pm, freezing rain

12-2pm, freezing rain

2-4pm, freezing rain with some sleet mixed in

4-6pm, precipitation tapers, perhaps with snow mixing in

Look at this cool map of accumulated precipitation expected through Tuesday morning. Not a ton, but we don't need a lot to make things slippery.High on Monday will only be 33.  We'll see significant travel difficulties with this storm due to slippery conditions and some downed lines/tree limbs.  There will also likely be scattered power outages from this storm.

[Note: this is for the Lehigh Valley and Berks County region; areas south and east will see much more "plain rain" from this system, and will therefore have far fewer travel difficulties and delays.]

Scheduling:

Chance of delay Monday, 80%

Chance of cancellation Monday, 68.9%

Chance of delay Tuesday, 35%

Colder Monday night; watch for a quick freeze-up overnight into Tuesday.

The three-week period beginning on Tuesday 1/20 looks to be quite a bit more active in terms of the potential for wintry precipitation (especially given the relatively quiet winter we've had thus far).

Stay tuned for updates!

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