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
And with our double scan technology we can show you exactly who is getting hit the hardest. I want to go in a little closer to this right now. Ive got a track placed on this storm thats so active right now where were getting most of the lightning. This storm alone 87 lightning strikes, haddonfield at 5 37, gibbsboro 5 42, marlton 5 51, moorestown at 5 54 then mount laurel right now at 5 58. So thats where the storm is headed currently through the region and you can see also a new one beginning. In salem one to the southwest of that. One in west chester right now hitting so its not just that area thats getting hit so hard. Some of the storms that tore through philadelphia an hour ago have broken up a little bit. Its just some heavy rainier new hope and lansdale and pottstown yet still a couple lightning strikes. Up near quakertown as well youre getting some of that rain and weve had a significant amount of rainfall in a relatively short amount of time and i just want to show you over th
There, right . Some areas getting heavy rainfall. This line of showers is moving through the area including center city. Thats a live view looking at center city this morning from the loews hotel camera. Look at the storms. Right now raging through delaware. They just cleared middleton. Rainfall is extending into salem and cumberland counties and thunderstorms into camden and Burlington County just south of esham. Its not going to be an allday rainfall. Well see showers and thunderstorms to start with. 6 00 still tracking some storms in the area 73 degrees and then well see a chance of scattered showers and possibly thunderstorms at 9 00 and at noon. Thats going to hold our temperatures back today. Well be in the 80s this afternoon. Well go through the futurecast hour by hour to show you when the storms are most likely to pop up in your neighborhood. Thats when im back in ten minutes. Lets see how this is affecting the roads. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. We dont have
For an hour and 40 minutes tonight police chase add white van through south jersey into philadelphia, back into south jersey, and finally into philadelphia again. At times, it was high speed, at times it was slow speed. But finally it was no speed. As a philadelphia trooper brought this bizarre odyssey to an end. Monday night, the big story on action news, the nightlong effort to catch a thief. It began at 8 00 with what they call a shotgun robbery. The police began a slow chase towards the walt whitman bridge. The driver went over the bridge into a navy yard where it hit a police car. The Oaklyn Police were still giving chase as it headed back into new jersey. And the deptford mall it made a tour of the parking lot. Residential neighborhoods, and believe it or not, back to the walt whitman and into philadelphia through old city the Historic District center city and back south on 95. Thats when the police tried, and almost succeeded, in boxing him in. And it seemed that he was surround
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