AccuWeather: Wet weekend ahead, but not a washout

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Climbing temperatures over the weekend, with more than an inch of rain to fall.

TONIGHT: Showers arrive late night with a little light freezing rain far NW (Lehigh Valley) close to the midnight hour. It will change to rain even there shortly after it starts. Low 36.

A Winter Weather Advisory is posted for northern Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton counties on north into the Poconos from 7 p.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday.

SATURDAY: Light rain or drizzle fall much of the day making for damp and dreary conditions. Temperatures much of the day will be in the mid to upper 40s, but we should touch 50 near evening.

SUNDAY: As a warm front lifts through, we'll see some showers just before dawn and a lingering sprinkle when you wake up, but a majority of the daytime hours look dry now as we will be squarely in the warm sector with the storm well to our west in the Ohio Valley. Temperatures will surge on a southerly wind reaching near 20 degrees above average. Even a break of sun is possible in the afternoon, so not bad for the Eagles. A potent cold front rolls through Sunday night and with that will come a period of heavy rain, a rumble of thunder and perhaps some gusty winds if any t'storm can tap into the low level jet winds of 50mph or so. High in the low 60s.

MONDAY: Some showers early, then clearing, high 58.

TUESDAY (NEW YEAR'S EVE): Sun to start with clouds increasing in the afternoon. Rain arriving late day and through the midnight hour. High 55.

WEDNESDAY: Chance for rain early in the day, otherwise mostly cloudy. High 52.

THURSDAY: Feeling more like January, breezy with some sunshine. High 42.

FRIDAY: Bright skies, cold. High 38.