Next widespread freezing weather later Monday through Tuesday morning

SHORT TERM FORECAST

MONDAY: Spotty icy rain. High: 30.

MONDAY EVENING: cloudy and icy. Low: 27.

TUESDAY: Icy Morning. Dry afternoon. High: 31.

WEDNESDAY: mostly sunny. High: 30.

SUMMARY FORECASTS

We track some very remote and very spotty freezing rain for your Monday afternoon. This causes a glaze of ice on roads and sidewalks in the few places that get it in the afternoon.

The highlights will be just below freezing on Monday.

In the evening, at the end of rush hour, more places will start to see the icy weather.

Between about 6pm Monday to 6am would be Tuesday when you want to stay off the roads.

The frigid rain is widespread on Monday evening and will last for hours. So it will be pretty icy Monday night and Tuesday morning.

Some places, such as the Philly area and Bucks, Montgomery and Chester, will switch to rain after 2am

The frigid rain and regular rain will end on Tuesday morning during rush hour, but it will still be an icy journey for much of the area due to all the ice we get at night.

You can monitor the icy weather with our interactive radar. The 69News Weather app locates the radar directly to your location.

The National Weather Service has many winter weather warnings to let everyone know about the widespread icy weather Monday night.

Tuesday afternoon we are dry. We will even see some sun by sunset.

Wednesday the sky is sunny all day.

Take advantage of the clearer skies on Wednesday evening by heading out to see Mars next to the crescent moon.

On Thursday, an all-terrain vehicle and a small drone helicopter will land on Mars. This is the first time anything flies on Mars, and NASA hopes the rover will answer once and for all: Was there life on Mars? The rover searches for ancient fossils in a dried-up lake.

Back here at home on Thursday, we’ll see a few more hours of snow in the morning. Then it switches to some spotty freezing rain to create some ice on the snow.

Then the icy rain switches to normal rain on Thursday at dinner time.

Then we just have rain on Thursday evening and all day on Friday. Temperatures first hit the 1940s in two weeks.

But the rain ends with a cold front, so the coming weekend will be chilly.

Look for sunny skies and 1930s highlights this weekend.

DETAILED FORECAST

MONDAY