Tracking Monday snowstorm for the Philadelphia region

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- After some early showers Friday evening, the weekend is calm before Monday's snowstorm.

PennDOT will ready to make sure the roads are safe.

"For Monday, I expect to call in all of our contractor trucks, which puts us up over 420 or trucks in the five-county region," said PennDOT spokesperson Brad Rudolph.

Officials are urging residents to plan ahead, stay off the roads if conditions worsen, and look out for parking restrictions in snow emergency routes.

"The longer it takes for them to run their routes, depending on traffic and the intensity of the storm, we could see some serious accumulations on Monday," Rudolph said.

Latest forecast

• Snow arrives between 4 a.m. to 7 a.m

• Light, but steady snow falls during the daylight hours

• There doesn't look to be any one period of really heavy snow so that is good news for keeping up on the roads

• Temperatures will be below freezing so snow will stick and make untreated surfaces slippery

• Snow ends around 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• There will be a very tight snowfall gradient across our area from less than 1" in the Poconos to over 6" in parts of Delaware and South Jersey.

• Expect some adjustments as we go through the weekend and the storm continues to move across the U.S. and get better analyzed.

Read more at 6abc.com/weather.

At Do It Best Hardware Store in Radnor, customers were out buying snow shovels, ice scrapers and ice melt.

"I have birdseed for my finch feeder and scrapers for the storm to get the snow off," said Bud Gerhab from Berwyn.

Lou Muth has owned the business for 25 years and is used to preparing for winter weather.

How crews are preparing for Monday's snowstorm

"The demand is obviously for snow, shovels, ice melt-and heat. Electric heaters, propane, anything to do with weather. The plumbing department is way up with pipes freezing, all that stuff," said Muth.

Atlantic City leaders said they're preparing for a worst-case scenario of 6 to 8 inches.

"The city of Atlantic City will have the proper staffing and equipment. We have been coordinating with the police our EMS crews, our ambulance people, the fire department," said Atlantic City OEM Coordinator and Fire Chief Scott Evans.

Police have four-wheel drive and military surplus vehicles ready to go and plan to get the homeless to shelters.

"I want to ensure the residents of Atlantic City that the city is prepared," said Atlantic City Marty Small Sr.