Alburtis: In effect starting at 5 p.m.Residents are asked to remove vehicles from snow emergency routes. Pen Argyl: In effect until further notice.Hellertown: In effect until further notice.Residents are asked to remove their vehicles from snow emergency routes and cul-de-sacs. Bethlehem Township: In effect until noon Sunday.In the Lehigh Valley, several municipalities declared snow emergencies. Motorists were strongly urged not to travel at all. Those restrictions were lifted by midnight. It also prohibited some tractor-trailers, buses, RVs and motorcycles on the region’s major highways. PennDOT reduced the speed limit to 45 mph on Route 22, Route 33 and Interstate 78 during the worst of the snow. Route 248 at Park Avenue was closed temporarily. that while public works crews were actively working on the township’s roads, PennDOT-designated roads were difficult to maneuver. In Greenwich Township, Berks County, a disabled vehicle closed Route 737 near Kohlers Hill Road.Įarlier, Palmer Township police said about 5:30 p.m. On MacArthur Road, multiple other vehicles were stuck in the road.Įlsewhere, Freemansburg Avenue was closed between Wagner Drive and Farmersville Road in Bethlehem Township around 10 p.m. Two LANTA buses were stuck in the snow - one on MacArthur Road in Whitehall Township and another on Susquehanna Street in Salisbury Township. It wasn’t just cars running into trouble. As snow began sticking to area roadways, crashes and stuck vehicles were reported in both Lehigh and Northampton counties.Īs conditions worsened Saturday evening, the roads became downright treacherous. Road conditions quickly deteriorated Saturday afternoon as soon as the snow started to fall around 1 p.m. Motorists should continue to use caution while driving Sunday morning. Some freezing rain was also possible, and black ice could develop as temperatures drop back to around freezing, the weather service warned. As of 8 p.m., a trained weather service spotter reported 7.5 inches of snow had fallen in New Tripoli. The highest accumulations were reported in the higher elevations of the Valley, to the north and west, according to the weather service. Snowfall rates of 1 inch per hour were reported, with some isolated areas seeing as much as 2 inches per hour. The heaviest snow moved into the Lehigh Valley and southern Poconos around 5:30 p.m., according to the weather service’s Mount Holly, N.J., office. The first winter storm of the season dropped more snow than expected on parts of the Lehigh Valley, possibly making it the biggest snowfall in nearly two years.Ī heavy burst of snow moved over the region for several hours Saturday evening, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a winter storm warning, and pushing the region toward the high end of the projected snowfall range. NEW STORY: Lehigh Valley cleaning up after first snow of season dumps 8 inches in areas.

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