May, seeing heavy rain, as well. Well zoom into the jersey shore area, you can see along the Atlantic City expressway from mays landing down into Atlantic City. You see this here thats the dry spot were starting to clear out, nicely there, so it should not be too much longer before the rain shut off at the jersey shore. Take a look at the rainfall totals, very, very impressive. We have seen just to the southeast of egg harbor over 7 inches of rain and counting. River land area, 4. 6. Dorothy, 2 inches. Absecon, 2. 6 and close to Atlantic City, about 2. 4 inches of rain. I can go farther to the south, as well. Sea isle city, looks like youre about 4. 5 inches. Avalon, 4. 5. Villas, 4 inches of rain. This is another bout of heavy rain over the last ten days, some areas have picked up over 8 inches of rain in south jersey, thats part of the region why weve seen some of the flooding thats the main reason why the flood advisory is in effect in philadelphia. Heavy rains exiting the coast, le
Structures like this with that many people being at home. They do have working smoke detecters, we did hear them. They are still active. Four children and two adults were taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. A neighboring home was damaged in the fire. Its a stormy saturday morning, were tracking an accuweather alert for the start of the weekend. As we look at the center city skyline vee via, sky6 live hd its been raining all night long, the jersey shore is taking a beating. Looking live at cape may, new jersey. There are roads in the area that are closed because of the flooding. Bob brooks is monitoring the conditions along the jersey shore, but we begin with meteorologist chris sowers who has the latest on this storm, chris, how long will it stick around . Reporter the good news it will not stick around too much longer, actually. The tail end is pushing through the jersey shore counties, atlantic, cape may and burlington counties, as we speak. Flash Flood Warnings
Minor flooding especially in southern Cape May County. National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Warning until 8 15 a. M. Two to four inches of rain has fallen. Theres street flooding reported down here, reid reeds beach, villas, the point is okay. Sea isle, avalon, strathmere all involved in the Flash Flood Warning. For the next hour and 15 minutes youre under the gun there. Surf city reporting light rain, same thing with Atlantic City. The bulk of this is out to sea. Most of south jersey is beginning to clear, at least the rain has stopped. Were seeing cloudy conditions and leftover drizzle. Nothing more than that, maybe one or two showers north and west. Ill tell you the Lehigh Valley and areas north of the pennsylvania turnpike missed out on this, allentown has not reported a single drop from the system. Some locations north of the pennsylvania turnpike perhaps a quarter inch of rain with this thats about it. The secondary part of the storm or upper level feature will be diving
Storm. Sky6 live hd taking a a live look at the Commodore Barry bridge. The inland did not see as much rain but flooding at the shore. We have team coverage, bob brooks is live along the jersey shore which saw the most flooding. But first, meteorologist chris sowers has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, chris, hopefully the rain is out of here. Reporter what youre seeing on the camera lens is all she wrote, a couple of leftover showers. The good news the rain is gone, theres flooding at the coast. The flooding is minor even though some areas picked up over 5 inches of rain. Heres the surface low, its out racing the upper level feature which is good news because had the upper level low caught up to the surface low it would have stalled it out and lingered into sunday. Because the two state separate it moves along its way and dives off to the southeast along the coast of the virginias. Delaware river western portions of camden, gloucester, Burlington County, showers in palmyra
A philadelphia man is struck and killed by lightening while vacationing in florida. But the big story is on action news is clearing skies, following overnight storms that brought heavy rains and flooding to parts of south jersey. Were taking a live look at penns landing for our sky 6 camera. Peaks of sunshine through the clouds late today and tomorrow looking better. Meteorologist cecily tynan in for melissa magee, shes live at the action news big board with the full details. Its noise to see peaks of sunshine out there after a very gloomy cool windy and damn saturday. The actual storm system is offshore. Were getting winds a shifting out of the north pulling down drier airs and helping clouds break, theres one thin line of showers starting to break up and stretches across route across middletown, sinking to the south, this is dying as it does, but like ive been say, this was a storm that you all about location. Areas north of philadelphia, barely got a drop of rain, but look at this e