Hours. This was the first band of storms that moved through chester, montgomery and pushing past bucks county. Heavy rainfall Flash Flood Warnings in effect in those areas. Look at the heavy rainfall and lots of lightning just to the west of glassboro, glassboro seeing the heavy rainfall is moving towards gloucester right now and into camden county. This particular area of storms is reaching into south philadelphia producing heavy rain. Got some lightning there as well. Part of why weve issued a first alert weather day fmr today. Localized flooding is possible because of the heavy downpours and the threat of that will continue this afternoon. Weve already seen some severe thunderstorms this morning with the potentially damaging winds bringing down tree limbs and power lines. Cant rule that out later today either. The forecast is calling for storminess ahead. Well go through the day hour by hour when i come back in ten minutes. Lets see how this is affecting the roads this morning. Firs
Two, in some spots more than three inches of rain. There you can see active thunderstorms moving through Northampton County clearing the allentown area. Flood warnings in effect for pennsylvania and south jersey. Flash flooding can occur even after the heaviest rain has ended because it takes some time for the runoff to accumulate and cause the flooding. Be on the look jut for flooded streets this morning. The thunderstorm threat stays with us this morning and into this afternoon. Well go through it hour by hour with the future cast when i come back in ten minutes to show you where the strongest storms are expected to pop up later today. Lets see how the traffic is moving. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Jessica . Were looking live at the boulevard around fox street. You can actually see how wet the roadways are right here. Southbound lanes headed towards the schuylkill expressway, theres not a lot of volume. Definitely something to watch out for. You can see which cars
The National Weather service has flash flood warnings in effect until 12 45, for another 15 minces for laebtic and ocean and burlington counties and watch for the heavy rain, causing high tide to get the runoff there. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing us we have rain in the region, lets go closer and see who is hardest hit fortescue Sea Isle City and right along route 49 and route 40 in hammon hammonton and the heaviest is in Atlantic City. And media and woodbury, and steady light rain and Medford Lakes and trenton is starting to dry out and droir in coatesville. And predominantly the rain is on i95 and areas east. Here is what to expect the heaviest on i95 and areas east, locally 2 inches of rain and more flooding is possible especially along the coastline we have had had so much rain and we are getting stronger storms there stormtracker 6 live double scan showing its unusual to have an area of low pressure that is strong and organized coming through the area. We have showers pi
Content that will make it feel so muggy and that is the the gauge you wanting to by. When you deal with that kind of moisture you are dealing with major mugginess today and that will continue to be a theme until our latest cold frost crosses through. We will start off with a lovely zoom out of our center city camera taken from the cbs3 studios. Note that is haze telling in on top of the center city sky line. We are in the middle of a up i air mass basically and what that will do is not only bring in a few more cloud then what we have even, but trigger hour or thunder storm. What we are finding is you have to look closely. There is green hoeing up, i would a really throughout the second half of the day, afternoon and toward tonight is best chance to see scattered showers and storms. They will be out there as we are sitting in the warm sector of the storm. Dew points are high. In the low to mid 70s that is uncomfortable and a actual air temperatures are close, as well. Bottom line is we
Break the heat wave and get a 88 degrees, by comparison, again it is still warm, muggy, and it is just uncomfortable out there, meisha, today. It is. You can feel that moisture in the air walking outside, sunnies not even up just yet. It will be a warm one. Good morning. Were glad you are with us. Live look, at the schuylkill eastbound at montgomery, it is already level. We are picking up, we can see this in the 5 00 oclock hour. Just starting to hit the roadway what we are seeing on the schuylkill right now as well a as on the vine but overall things are looking good. We have a disable vehicle city avenue north bound on ramp to the schuylkill eastbound pulled off to the shoulder. You can see, evident here, not causing any slow downs, however just make note of it the because it could as we move in the morning. Fortytwo approaching 295, looking good here, our freeway he never really does. Everybody is used to him. You can see vehicles in the the 5 00 oclock hour on this wednesday are ou