Near the ocean but pretty mild there and in the city. All and all today was another winner but, rain could cause problems for your fourth of july plans. Sunday night and the big story on action news is threat of rain for the fourth of july in fact it the might be bad enough to force changes to your fourth of july plans. Lets go right to meteorologist Melissa Magee with details in the first check of the accu Weather Forecast. Hi melissa. Hard to believe we will end our fourth of july weekend on a soggy note because so far so good across the region. Yesterday was not bad. High of 80. Today we maxed out at 78 below the normal, normally we should be in the upper 80s this time of the the year but humidity was low. It was nice and comfortable owe far over the weekend. Currently in philadelphia 71. Sixtyseven in allentown, lehigh valley. West in lancaster in the 60s. At the coast in cape may 66. 69 degrees in beach haven. Here is the change we are tracking Storm Tracker six live double scan r
That will be moving offshore and were seeing the dry line pushing through south jersey. So there are a few lingering showers but nevertheless look at this. It is very clear where the sunshine is through harrisburg westward mostly sunny skies and seeing breaks in the clouds already in our northern and western suburb. In philadelphia it is 67. Already up to 1 degree since the rain has ended and in reading we have sunshine 70. Lancaster 71 degrees. You can see on the visibility side of thing when you see 10 miles visible thats good deal of sunshine drying out in philly still down the shore we do have some rain and actually areas of fog. Now, this evening i do expect temperatures to rise. So by 7 00 oclock in the city mostly cloudy. Sunshine before seven set. 68 by 9 00 oclock mainly clear and 66. Moonlit by the 11 00 oclock hour and a temperature of 63 degrees. This is the next Weather Threat creating Severe Weather issues through the midwest right now. It will be moving through the Delaw
Standing on the overpass at University Avenue just before 76 west blowing Railroad Spikes over the over pass were told that police found six of the Railroad Spikes on the road. Four cars were hit. Fortunately none of the drivers inside the car were seriously hurt but as you can imagine just a very scary thing as you look at some of those spikes driven right into the windshield of a car. We talked to lieutenant john walker with southwest detectives about the investigation. Very dangerous incident that happened out here. If you see these spikes, the fact that they are nailed into the ground they are very sharp edges being thrown at cars. You can see the damage caused to these cars and one impaled into the actual dashboard of a car. It couldnt much worse. Reporter it could have been much worse. What we know in terms of injuries most of those people were not hurt. We were told one gentleman in one of the cars did get hit in the eye with some glass. He is being treated at a hospital ninety
Celebrations, right. Of course, avoid all that traffic. So if a third of the trains are out of service, what will you do. Find an alternate way. You dress up in red, white and blue and you do it anyway, right. Yes. You can still get a train. They just dont have as many running. Hi. Hi. Hi, sue. They are not happy with me at all today because of the forecast. Im really concern, sue. I sit in the rain one more time during this fire works display, i am going to spit. What . Nobody will notice. Yes. I will spit. Is it going to rain at about 9 00 oclock tonight. Yes, there is going to be rain. I will punch you right in the face. What is going on. Im so glad you are back from vacation. How was merit will beach. Great. And i met folks there from quaker town. Yes. Anyway, we will talk about that later on, right now we will get to it. Yes. Number of the day, we will go with optimistic seven because there is sunshine this morning. Bus stop buddy 67 degrees. Look, what happened there, he disappea
Celebrate the fourth of july but will Mother Nature cooperate . Sue serio has your holiday forecast. That seems like a perfect transition on this fourth of july, right to sue serio. Anything you want to do, do it as early as possible. You know im new. I had my first wawa welcome america concert. Have you ever guys cancelled it. No, you do not cancel. I have watched fire works in the driving rain storm. They will have the concert rain storm. Some people standing in the rain. If you have a patriotic picture, what do i mean by that . Youre dressed up like monte g. Hey monte g. He is dressed as a flag. If you are dressed up in patriotic stuff, send it in and we will broadcast that to the rest of the delaware valley. Or if you have anything you are preparing for, maybe people will cook out and get things ready. Yes. More embarrassing the better. Sometimes people think it is cake and strawberry and they make them look like the stripes. Yes. All kind of ways to be patriotic and we are doing y