Mummers Parade Still On, Officials Monitoring Forecast

PHILADELPHIA – With Philadelphia in the throes of a Code Blue cold weather emergency, the Mummers Parade could be put on pause due to the blast of arctic air that is expected to hit Philadelphia over New Year's weekend.

City officials said as of Friday, Dec. 29, the parade is still a go for Jan. 1, New Year's Day.

"We’re continually monitoring weather, but we’re still making preparations for parade to happen Monday," a city spokesperson said in an email to Patch sent Friday. "No changes since yesterday."

New Year's Day has a predicted high of 20 and a low of 10. Winds are expected to be about 11 miles per hour from the northwest. See the full New Year's weekend forecast here.

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Parade officials told NBC10 that the final call on whether or not the parade will go on will be made Saturday.

Recently, USA Today readers voted the Mummers Parade the best holiday parade in the United States.

The parade begins at 15th and Market, right by City Hall, then heads south on Broad Street and ends at Washington Avenue.

There are performance stops at 15th and Market, Broad and Sansom, Broad and Pine, and Broad and Carpenter.

See the full route here.

Meanwhile, social media is buzzing with hot takes (pun intended) on the potential postponement and even the Philadelphia Mummers String Band Association put out a Twitter poll on the parade.

Ok if they cancel the mummers parade on New Years bc of the weather I’m gonna be mad upset bc thats the one thing I been looking forward to
— Michelle (@m_damask) December 29, 2017

Members of the Quaker City String Band perform during the 116th annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia on Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. Outrageously costumed Mummers strutted their stuff Friday at the city's annual New Year's Day parade, a colorful celebration that features string bands, comic brigades, elaborate floats and plenty of feathers and sequins. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)