{"id":485050,"date":"2026-01-01T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/485050\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:01:11","slug":"snow-squall-sweeps-across-philadelphia-region-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/485050\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow squall sweeps across Philadelphia region on New Year&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The squall dumped a coating of snow onto the city in just a matter of minutes Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Corey Davis Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/14306435_wpvi_bio_coreydavis_160x200.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, January 1, 2026 3:40PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Snow squall sweeps across Philadelphia region on New Year's Day\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; An early snow squall on New Year&#8217;s Day dumped a burst of snow onto the Philadelphia region causing slick roads and below freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Quite a bit happened in Philadelphia before the first sunrise of the New Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The squall dumped a coating of snow onto the city in just a matter of minutes Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Flags along the Ben Franklin Parkway were whipping in the wind as the weather intensified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Enough snow fell in some areas like Narberth for people to bring out snowblowers to clear sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A large amount of the snow fell in just over an hour but then the weather cleared, making way for people to lace up and get in some exercise to kick off the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We are part of the Black Men Run Philadelphia and we do a New Year&#8217;s Day run every year,&#8221; said Sherman McLeod. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a resolution it&#8217;s a lifestyle for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">City crews were seen treating roads in a number of areas around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The squall dumped a coating of snow onto the city in just a matter of minutes Thursday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":485051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[219348,5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-485050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-219348","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}