Don’t expect a major snowfall this weekend, but flurries are still on their way

You can keep holding off on buying that snowblower.

Some flurries will land in the Philadelphia area beginning late Friday night, but there should ultimately be much less snow than earlier forecasts had predicted, according to the National Weather Service.

It’s “really not going to be an impactful system,” said weather service meteorologist Eric Hoeflich.

Most parts of the Philadelphia area are forecast to only experience up to an inch of snow, Hoeflich said. Weather service models expect light snowfall to begin Friday around midnight and continue through Saturday morning, ending by 8 a.m., with some slightly higher totals in southern New Jersey and southern Delaware.

Several days ago, some forecast models had predicted multiple feet of snow for the Philadelphia area.

After the light dusting, the weather service said it expects winds to pick up going into Saturday night, with gusts upwards of 25 mph.

Sunday will welcome the Green Bay Packers to Philadelphia with ideal playoff football weather for the wild-card round at Lincoln Financial Field, with temperatures in the low 30s to 40s.

The sky should be clear next week, but the weather service predicts below-freezing temperatures and more wind beginning Sunday night and continuing through Thursday.

While this weekend’s snowfall figures are expected to be a fraction of what meteorologists once predicted, it is the second of the week, following the biggest Philly snowfall of the season that fell by Monday, when 1.8 total was recorded at the airport.

Last year’s snow season saw half the seasonal average, totaling just 11.2 inches. Still, that was nearly 40 times greater than the sparse snowfall of the 2022-23 season.