Feels nice. It does. Theres a pretty good breeze blowing as evidenced by this live view from center city. Look at the flags blowing in the wind. Thats a steady wind that will be with us through this afternoon. Thats dry air flooding into the region. The temperatures looking at 50s and 60s. 59 in pottstown. Trenton and wrightstown. Roxboro 56 degrees. Get set for sunshine. A few clouds blowing through the afternoon. Scattered clouds. Dont expect to see any showers today. Warm up to 66 degrees by lunchtime, but showers in our near future. Well go through the forecast hour by hour when i come back in ten minutes. Right now lets see how that breeze is affecting traffic if at all. Jessica boyington in the first alert traffic center. Jessica . Thanks bill. Yeah, moving through the work zone on 295 and the black horse pike. You can see crews active on the southbound lanes. Thats actually not setting anybody back on the drive times at all. 13 minutes still headed from 38 up to this point at th
Morning. Starting off on the vine street expressway where were monitoring a disabled vehicle over in the right hand shoulder. You can see that not interfering at all with the roads. Two minutes headed eastbound from the schuylkill towards 95. Right around third street. Cant see the westbound lanes but they look pretty much identical to the scene as well. No problems heading into center city area. 95 or the schuylkill expressway and the blue route looking great southbound up towards 95. For mass transit we did have a rough week with mass transit. All normal Service Resumes for amtrak, new Jersey Transit and septa. More drive timescce to come and a check on new jersey roads. Chris. 5 31. Lets take you to breaking news. A flight out of philadelphia from europe was diverted to canada because someone died on board the plane. American Airlines Flight 700 was traveling from Philadelphia International to frankfurt germany. It was diverted as you see on the map to gandor airport in newfoundland
Not looking at a lot of activity we could use a lot of rain but widely scattered isolated thunderstorms most areas will remain dry and the biggest threat with any storm the heavy downpours, the air is saturated but gusty winds and perhaps some small hail. The winds of change tomorrow 83 in philadelphia right now, but you can see chicago its 49 degrees so get ready to give your air conditioning units a break. Ill let you know how long that lasts in the accuweather forecast. Of course stay ahead of the weather by checking 6abc. Com weather, you can fine live Storm Tracker 6 radar and the sevenday forecast and get the latest from our team of meteorologists. A vigil is held at 6 00 tonight for an 11yearold girl struck and killed by a driver if lehigh county, abigail was hit by a car last night at sixth and chestnut streets, she was taken to the hospital where she died. A 10yearold maya was also hit, witnesses say that the driver did stop at the keep and no charges are filed and the vigil a
Morning and so plan for that on the bus stop this morning. Between six and 8 oclock, 59 by six, 69 by 8 00 a. M. In philadelphia a bit on the breezy side but mainly clear and generally speaking pretty comfortable. As we roll through the day 61 by 9 oclock, 66 by noon and definitely cooler this afternoon, 71 by 3 oclock and a high of 72 that i think will probably slide in around 3 30 or 4 oclock and 69 degrees by 6 oclock abit on the breezy side with winds gusting as high as 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Your pollen count is a little bit on the rise but only staying in the medium high range the next several days into the holiday weekend. Speaking of which well have new details from accuweather on just what your weekend looks like, memorial day already here karen, can you believe it. I can believe it because i have been counting it down since winter. Looking outside on the schuylkill under 30th street. Traffic moving fine, construction clearing out. Just a couple cones left over in the right
Up over the horizon. There are a few clouds overhead right now but theyre thin enough where i think theyre going to evaporate fairly quickly. We should wind up with a fair amount of sunshine. A bit of a breeze coming down out of the northwest thats very cool and refreshing. 62 degrees in philadelphia right now. In the northern suburbs still in the 50s. In fact wilmington has now dropped to 57 and millville in the upper 50s so maybe a light jacket as you head outside. And as we take a look at your day, not going to be as warm as yesterday but plenty of sunshine and pretty nice overall. 60 by 8 00 a. M. By noon, 66. We probably wont make the 70s until about 2 oclock this afternoon and then a high of 72 around 4 00 before sliding back into the upper 60s by 6 oclock this evening. As we take a look at pollen counts of course we had that great break yesterday where you could breathe deep and not have any problem. Now were back into the medium high range so medications possibly needed again f