South jersey gas tells us a live electrical wire crashed down on to guardrail along Ocean Heights avenue in Egg Harbor Township just before 2 00 thursday afternoon. Officials say electric current from that line zapped through the metal guardrail and ignited an 8inch gas main. No one was hurt but hundreds lot of power for several hours and traffic through this main roadway remains tied up. Fire so high we note at a banks could see it driving down the garden state parkway. There wasnt a lot of smoke but there was lot of flames. Yeah, i was scared because i thought it was going to come over at the highway to the parkway. Reporter and at this point the appears most people have their power back. Again, were still waiting to hear how exactly this power line that officials tell us caused all of this actually came down. Lucy, back to you. No power means no ac and thats tough in heat like this. On your radar dangerous heat hitting our area. Looking live at the ben franklin parkway many of us cl
Disgusting. Not sixers, but what is this lauren. Green tea but i added coconut oil so it looks oily. Either way, drink something today, lot of fluids. I dont know about that. That doesnt look good. No. Weve got some weather coming through the area right now, radar picking up these showers and thunderstorms that moved through montgomery, bucks county and that is right long 78, all moving to the east here this morning. Closeup view Lehigh Valley these are lightening strikes. You heard thunder out there but in Northampton County toward easton and pushing into new jersey, this area of rain will move off to the north east right along 78, allentown, bethlehem already through there and moving through Northampton County. It will continue to push off to the north east. There is not much happening. The things will clear up but for hot and humid day again. We will keep number of the day right at a six, hot and humid with that excessive heat warning in effect to today. Outside right now only 82. T
Degrees in allentown, 67 in trenton, 63 he in reading. Almost 70 in wilmington and low 70s down at the shore. And dewpoints are lower today. Just 58 in philadelphia. Anything below 60 is not considered humid. And those higher numbers well down south, a ce of spots farther to the south still a bit on the sticky side. Going to be a nice one overall an great day across most of the region to get it started with a run. By 7 oclock 71 degrees humidity as you saw low across most of the region. 78 degrees by 10 00 a. M. It does get warm this afternoon 84 by noon an high of 89 at 3 oclock if we can stay in the 80s it will b the heat wave but with low humidity thats a pretty nice summer afternoon. We have to be careful down the shore where there is still a lingering problem with rip currents thanks to all of that tropical stuff going on out in the atlantic. More on that coming up in the accuweather 7day forecast. Karen what about roads. Breaking news. A big accident right now causing problems th
Currently, 61 in allentown, cool and comfortable in places like allentown reading bethlehem, trenton at 68, 70 in millville and 72 at this early hour in cape may. Dewpoints are running a lot lower this morning. Got a lot of 50s out there. A little stickier as we get into these 60degree readings down south. All Things Considered a pretty nice morning for a uny run a walk to the bus stop or just out to the car. 78 degrees by 10 00 by noon 84 and were going for a high of 89 if we can hold in the 80s today it will end our heat wave. Not as humid today but still pretty warm. Got to be careful of rip currents down the shore karen as were looking at that tropical issue with those heavy surf swells coming in. Ill check out the tropics and give you the rest of your seven day coming up. Tropics heating up. Vine street expressway reopened. Was closed overnight for construction and now we see westbound, eastbound moving okay but crews will return again tonight at 11 oclock and t the vine down in b
And showers around out to the west of us, we go through the Morning Hours theres a chance of a an on and off shower. 64 degrees most of us you when youre not dealing with a sprinkle or shower, the big impact when you open the front door, wow how mild it is. 62 in trenton. 64 in wilmington. Allentown, 51. Same story in cape may. Heading out the door to the driveway and the bus stop, cloudy skies, well have showers between 6 00 a. M. And 8 00 a. M. , the tempts will stay mild in philadelphia. Low 60s. We stay mild this afternoon. 1 00 p. M. , 70 degrees, 3 00 p. M. , 72 this is your high, again most of the showers in the immediate region should be off the board early this afternoon down the shore, they will lingering a little bit longer. Its going to be nice and mild across the region. The pollen count thanks to the morning showers is down today. It creeps back up over the weekend. Speaking of the weekend well have the details for the forecast coming up saturday and sunday, that is comin