Alright, so it's looking less dire for Friday night / Saturday and the Nor'beaster©™®. Still a Nor'easter, and still some potential travel issues, but the system lacks the blocking, surface temperatures, and upper atmosphere juju to make it truly epic.
What I think:
Obligatory strange, unsettling Hasselhoff picSnow arrives late Friday night, like after midnight. Continues in to Saturday morning, when we'll see a changeover to a brief period of snow/sleet before turning to all rain east to west. Accumulation and travel issues will occur mainly between midnight Friday and 9-10am Saturday. Then rain til early evening, then flurries, then that's it. We're looking at 3-4 inches at most (Lehigh Valley, Berks, Bucks) and 1-2 inches (Philly, burbs) and a coating to an inch (shore).
Overcast on Sunday but no snow and temperatures reaching 40. Monday brings a clipper system that's quite similar to the one that hit us yesterday. 2-3 inches generally and a better-than-good chance of school early dismissals and/or cancellations. (Look for updates on this one over the weekend.) High Monday doesn't even reach freezing (with wind that'll make it feel like the teens); low gets down in to the lower teens (with wind that'll make it feel like the single digits).
Stay tuned for updates!