Downpours move into Chester County. They are moving to the east northeast at 20 miles an hour. Theyre taking their time. Theres a chance of showers throughout the day with the possibility of thunderstorms. Right now this is going to be a cloudy one for king of prussia. Occasional showers this morning. As we go into the late morning hours, theyll start to taper off, 70 degrees with mostly cloudy afternoons. Showers in Lehigh Valley and delaware, 67 degrees. Heading into the 70s this afternoon. We were in the middle 80s in philadelphia. 78 the High Temperature today. Wont be an allday rainfall. A good idea to take the umbrella with you. At some point during the day you will likely encounter some showers. Jessica boyington is standing by with your first alert traffic. Jessie . We are paying attention to an accident scene that caused problems with septas broad street line. It started on the boulevard right around 7th street, knocked out power lines this. That, again, has caused the Northbo
Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. It is dangerous heat out there. Weve issued a first alert. Lets start with meteorologist bill henley in the nbc 10 first alert neighborhood weather. The temperature soared over the weekend. 97 yesterday. It felt like it was well over 100. Our first alert for dangerous heat continues for philadelphia, pennsylvania suburbs, the new jersey and shore and delaware as the temperatures today and tomorrow right on into tomorrow evening will feel very hot and humid. The feelslike temperature is 98 to 108 degrees. Right now were looking at 70s. Were looking at clearing skies, just a few scattered clouds in the suburbs. You can see scattered clouds and 73 in the lehigh valley. Delaware, got some sunshine coming your way. Unfortunately, the temperatures will soar from 75 at 7 00 to 83 degrees at 10 00. An then into the middle 90s this afternoon, 95 in philadelphia, will feel like it is 100 degrees or a bit higher. Delaware as well, while its low 1n interior new
Yesterday. The humidity will be increasing today. A first alert for dangerous heat, philadelphia, the suburbs, new jersey and delaware continues through this evening. We could see heat index, the feelslike temperature of 98 to 108 degrees this afternoon. The other threat is from showers and thunderstorms. We have showers this morning. Theyre moving through southern delaware and south jersey. Cape may is seeing some rainfall, no storms. The storms that appeared last night have since dissipated. The rain remains. The threat of storms, though, will be back this afternoon. Right now 70s to start with, upper 70s in new jersey, the Lehigh Valley, 72, 76 in delaware and 77 in philadelphia. Back into the 90s this afternoon, hot, humid conditions and late this afternoon, into this evening, thats when well start to see some storms. Those storms eventually making it to the shore. 90s for interior new jersey. 86 degrees at the jersey shore. Ill to a closer look at that storm threat for later today
More on your weekend forecast coming up. For now, lets go to traffic with jessica boyington. Thanks, krystal. Watching a vehicle fire in conshohocken, reported 20 minutes ago or so. Something we might be watching for quite some time. The pa turnpike doing okay. We are watching construction there on the westbound side between valley forge and downingtown. Westbound and eastbound drive times still doing great. 23 minutes there, westbound from route 1 to valley forge. Speeds also into the 60s. Now were watching the vine street expressway still, cameras around broad street. You can see were starting to move the construction out of the way. So it looks like were letting vehicles through. You can see the construction vehicles in place within the next ten minutes or so, for sure, everything should be out of the way. We are starting to open lanes back open to traffic. In between broad street and the schuylkill expressway, youll be good. By the time you get out the door you should be fine. New