Its not just our team of meteorologists who can monitor the radar, you can see it in action right on our website 6abc. Com weather. Theres an inter active map tool that lets you go down to street level to see what Storm Tracker 6 seize. Reporter on june 1, a super cell thunderstorm in New Castle County began to show rotation, a tornado was issued and we immediately interrupted a commercial hitting the air and walked you through the storm until the warning expired 20 minutes later. Double scan displayed the arcing shape called a hook echo along with a red cylinder. We switched double scan into the storm relative velocity mode. Red indicates winds moving away from the radar green toward. Double scan makes it clear to see winds swirling in opposite direction, we were able to track arrow sayings minute by minute. Another exclusive feature of double scan radar is the dual pole technology. The National Weather Service Calls it the most significant enhancement to the Radar Network since doppler in the 1990s. 6abc has our own. Bright red indicates the strongest part of the storm but whats going on there for decades we couldnt tell whether it was big rain drops falling or damaging hail. Dual poll lets us cut through the clutter. Use zdr and hro and kdp. It lets us analyze whats going on in the core of the storm cell. In a storm near dover double scan was able to determine where one inch quarter sized hail was coming down, they are highlighted in purple. It can keep track of lightening strikes, 62 bolts in 15 minutes. It can tap into a network of radars across the country to highlight other stories of the day. Last month heavy rain caused drenching flooding in texas give the state its wettest month on record. Flood rescues became a daily occurrence and several people lost their lives. Meteorologist cesily tynan has more on the escaping the danger. Reporter over the past 30 years in the united states, the number of fatalities due to hurricanes and tornados is decreasing, but the number of at a tattle to flooding and flash flooding has remained constant. Im hear to show you to escape a vehicle if youre trapped in a flash flood. The sad truth more than half of flood related drawnings are browns drownings are in cars. How much time do you have to get out of the car alive . You have to get out as soon as possible. You have to get elements instantly. You want to try try to get the windows down or break the window so you can get out. , of course, you want to be a good swimmer but the best thing not to be in the situation in the first place. Reporter to demonstrate how to break a window, i got to get suited up, safety first these things are heavy. Safety glasses. I got my jacket. One thing every car should have is either a safety hammer or this. It costs 8 ahardware store you can use this to break out of a window. Ill show you how. Youve been telling me sometimes if youre in a flash flood the safest place is in your vehicle. Say were in this van the water is rising rapidly youre going to run out of air. This is the time you have to get out, right. Right. Reporter and you have to do it quickly. Correct. Reporter the car stalls you cant get the windows down. Electric windows wont work. Reporter center punch comes into play. Dollars 8 saves your life. On the side . Yes, near the post. Reporter second try, if youre in the water, you could swim right out. And youre alive and maybe a little consult up, but youre aoh a little cut up, but youre alive. Water can sweep a car away. If its up past the door it will take you away. Running late your path is blocked by water crossing the road. It doesnt look that deep, so you decide to drive through. Bad decision. And maybe your last. Reporter thats part of the reason the federal government runs the Safety Campaign with the catchy phrase turn around dont drown. Mean people who kneed a water rescue understatement the power of the water. 6 inches stalls most vehicles, one foot stalls your car, two feet get swept away. You can get out, you can save yourself. Thanks for coming to movie night. Yeah, of course, so fun. So fun, right. Yeah. Im gonna go check. Ok. Well . Were all the way up to 4 . Thats great yeah. I could do this all night. Im just gonna go check again. Ok. Leave slow downloads behind. 100 fiber optics is here. Rashida . Get out of the past. Get fios. Rashida . Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v [meow] meet one today. Visit theshelterpetproject. Org. Adopt. The crash of thunder is a warning sign. When you hear it, lightning is close enough to strike you. Lightning kills an average of 49 people a year, and severely injures hundreds more. Most of those strikes come during the summer months new jersey and pennsylvania are both in the top 10 states for killer lightning over the past 10 years. While the fury of flashing bolts put on incredible light shows at night. The shocking truth is that about 2 out of every 3 lightning victims are hurt while enjoying leisure activities, particularly fishing, boating or down at the shore. So, stay away from trees and porches and go indoors immediately when hearing thunder. Playgrounds and ball fields are among the most vulnerable places to be out in a wide open space. Lightning is capable of striking up to 15 miles away which means for some, it can seemingly be a bolt out of the blue. So before you plan Outdoor Activities this summer, we urge you to check the accuweather forecast. You can get it wherever you are, on our free 6abc stormtracker app. And it will even sound audio alerts when severe watches and warnings are issued. Another way were working around the clock to keep you safe. The Accuweather Team is working morning, noon and night, weekdays and weekends and no breaks for holidays when the forecast matters so much for your family. So whats really going on behind the scenes . Meteorologist karen rogers is your tour guide for a rare look that you certainly havent seen before. So you want to see what its like behind the scenes . Lets go in the studio but before that you need a strong cup of coffee. We wake up at 2 am, you cant come in here unless youre fired up and ready to go the accidents just keep coming in. Weve got low visibility with the fog out there, the roads are wet and you can see the problem. And with the rainfall totals with these radar estimates we can see that south jersey is the real bullseye. The best thing about doing wx and traffic is that you can combine them so easily. So im using doublescan radar to go in tight and figure out excatly which roads are wet, and labeling them for everybody so we can put them on the air, and help them get to work you dont want to be late, right . We try to come up with different ways to make the forecast easy to understand cause we know youre brushing your teeth, drinking your coffee, sending your kids off to school. We know you cant completely Pay Attention, so we do lots of different graphics and use as much visual aids as we can to make it easy to understand the forecast. Hes concentrating right now and there he goes its entirely closed . Westbound. And we have a shot of it . And weve got more breaking news lets take a look at our traffic cameras, this is 76 eastbound approaching south street. They had been blocking all lanes. So, the Good Morning America cut ins are live davids getting ready right now. So you never know exactly when theyre going to throw to you, so you gotta get ready and claps nows his time. Hey everybody, david murphy with an update from accuweather everyday you see us and it looks like were standing here in front of our weather maps but actually snaps its just a large green screen and its behindthescenes technology to make it look like were standing in front of a weather map. Weve got monitors off to the side so we can actually see where were pointing at, but the green screen is something people always ask us about. We feel so lucky to have the best technology here. This is our big board. We were the first local station in the country to get one, and its kind of like a giant, interactive ipad, which makes it fun to report. Were using doublescan to show you exaclty where the showers are. We can pull in our sky6 cameras and there you see the fog. And visibility reports showing you exactly what it looks like in your Community Cause in the morning weather and traffic go hand in hand. When the roads are wet, when you have fog, you can have accidents. So this is another tool we use, to keep you safe. So heres the thing you may never notice. I have my own yoga studio, look matt tam have a bakery. And thats matt pellmans taxi service because we like matt pellman. We work very hard in the mornings, as you can see, no fun at all, no fun david, what are you reading about the phillies . Just ratted him out so the morning show is from 4 307 and after that we have a little time in between Good Morning America, but not a lot of time, right, david . Yea, a little bit. A little smidgey time. What are you working on . Right now im doing graphics for the noon show. Im doing a regional map that sort of shows you where the temperatures are going to be. Boards that cover different daytimes. And a lot of people dont realize we have to forecast every hour what the temperature is going to be. Yea, i do that every morning, see . Thats one of the first things i do when i get in, in the morning, see . Yea, so theres a lot of work behind the scenes our morning show is live from 4 30 in the morning until 7. Here you can see its 8 31 and counting, but were still working because we do updates during Good Morning America to keep you informed, all morning long. We hope you enjoyed that glimpse into what our days are like, here at action news. Were Just Moments Away from our exclusive accuweather full summer forecast and the hurricane outlook for the 2015 season stay with us hurricanes grab the headlines and many fear the destructive power of tornadoes, but people often dont Pay Attention to the biggest weather danger heat. High temperatures combined with high humidity are a silent killer claiming about 175 american lives every year. Its especially hazardous in cities urban heat islands where all the concrete and asphalt trap heat during the day, keeping the air warmer at night. The highest temperature ever recorded in philadelphia was 106 degrees on august 7th, 1918. But its the heat waves that cause the most harm when theres no relief. The longest stretch was 18 days in july and august of 1988. One of the many tools we have to monitor the Current Conditions are our live sky6 cameras. They all feed back right here. A network of 11 cameras stretching from the poconos to the shore, spread all across the city, watching the skyline, the bridges, to the airport, linc, chester, and down to delaware. We see it all from violent storms, to sunny skies perfect beach weather, and summer sunsets. And well keep watching, to make sure we deliver the most accurate forecast, every time. Weve had a lot of extreme weather over the last few years from record breaking snowfalls to devastating flooding from hurricane sandy. So just what does the summer of 2015 have in store for us . Meteorologist Melissa Magee takes a look. Thanks adam cecily. It was certainly a wild start to 2015 examining the past helps us forecast the future so let me show you how the years shaped up so far. It started with what, for many, seemed like the winter that would never end. Temperatures averaged more than 5 degrees below normal from january through march. The worst was february, when temps averaged near 10 degrees below normal making it the coldest we have seen in 36 years snow was still in the air as late as march 30th in many areas. Then came april and may and it was instantly spring with temps averaging over 3. 5 degrees above normal. Now, Everyone Wants to know which of these patterns will set up over the summer months. Based on what we have seen over the last few weeks much of the summer looks to be warm humid with a bermuda high set up off the eastern seaboard and the jet stream ridging northward into canada. This looks to be the case about 60 of the time. However, there will be dips in the jet stream to provide brief spells of mild, but less humid air as canadian High Pressure slips down into the northeast. Expect to see this about 40 of the time. So what this all boils down to for the summer of 2015 is a warmer drier setup than last year. Temps are expected to average about 2 degrees above normal with rainfall coming in right around normal. As far as 90 degree days expect to see a lot more than we did last year. During the summer of 2014, we only reached the 90s 17 times 10 days less than the average. This summer will be much more typical with 27 days cracking the 90 degree mark. One big signal we are watching for the summer and more importantly for the Hurricane Season is the presence of a moderate to strong el nino. This map shows well above normal temp anomalies in the equatorial pacific and more specifically just off the coast of south america meaning the formation of an eastern based el nino. Research has shown that this type of el nino pattern is responsible for increased activity during the pacific Hurricane Season as storms can feed off of the well above normal water temps. On the flip side this has been shown to create strong wind shear in the Tropical Atlantic as well as lots of dry air. Both of these limit development and usually lead to a below normal atlantic Hurricane Season. With that being said we also want to look at the current water temps in the atlantic to see what they are telling us for the limited number of storms that we do expect to form. Just off of africa, water temps are below normal indicating fewer long track storms. But closer to home along the eastern seaboard and through the gulf of mexico water temps are running above normal meaning an increased threat from storms that could develop nearby. So, heres the 2015 atlantic Hurricane Season forecast. 8 named storms, 4 will form into hurricanes and 1 of those will become a major hurricane. Expect 2 or 3 u. S. Landfalls. Weve already seen two landfalls this season, Tropical Storm ana back in may hit the carolinas causing minor damage, and just this week bill formed in the gulf coming ashore in texas. Even though we are forecasting below normal activity keep in mind that it only takes one storm to hit your area and make it a memorable season. We live in a pick and choose world. Choose, choose, choose. But at bedtime . Why settle for this . Enter sleep number, dont miss the final days of the lowest prices of the season. Sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. You like the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow only at a sleep number store. Dont miss the final days of the lowest prices of the season. Save 300 to 700 on selected mattress sets. Ends sunday know better sleep with sleep number. This action news special is sponsored by raymour and flanigan furniture and mattresses, raymour and flanigan, furnishing your style weve shown you all the ways were working together, as a team, to keep you safe. Its a commitment that motivates us every day. 6abc is on the cuttingedge and you can be sure action news will continue to lead the way, with advanced technology. Its all in an effort to deliver the most accurate forecast every newscast, every day. We know you rely on us in good weather and bad, from sunny days to severe storms. Remember, we love hearing from you too in between the times you see us onair, you can still get in touch. Show us what the weathers like where you are. Let us know how were doing. Thanks for watching and well see you soon marilia hello, and welcome to the hollywood news report. Im Marilia Moreno your cinema guide for whats going on in movies today. 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