Katie especially we had dry roadways, and now its wet. And soggy too. Youre definitely going to be see the Poor Visibility for one thing with coming off the roadways, as the rain comes down it naturally slows you down when you got it coming down heavily like this, it can be an extra issue. Heres that other snapshot we just showed you on storm scan where the heaviest rain is essentially confined in a vertical line from the Lehigh Valley down to 576 and right on through the city. That said where the heaviest rain is currently falling. Yesterday we were saying this was going to be a lot more widespread today. There you have it. Even as we zoom it out once or twice tyou see these bands of heavy rain moving our way. Back the cold front at this point still confined well off of the west. You can see clearing going on back towards pittsburgh, for example, were going to need a little bit of time before that happens here. This is essentially an dale event in the meantime, flood advisory has been
And southern delaware issue and that, as a result has let us have to updates our flood advisory. It just happened. We just didnt have the time to switch this up. But you can see how the green has now migrated from where it was over New Castle County in the Southern Tier of the i95 quarter through our area, and moving off to the east and follows the rain. Youre going to run into pond opening the roadways, poor drainage flooding. All of that good stuff you always tend to have heavy bouts of rain like this come through. We also are sitting in the lowest risk for Severe Weather today, marginal risk. Generally expecting here heavy downpours with thunderstorms that fire up this afternoon, gusty wind and certainly frequent lightening. Definitely not the worst Case Scenario of Severe Weather potential for us, but its enough that its something well have to keep a very close watch on. Especially if we get any kind of daylight or sunlight. Went there will be a little bit of it. Bid of mid day bre
Im sweating. That will make for a messy drop, stay tuned for her report. We are got to get you out the door. Its going to be a rough start. When it comes to the weather, i come bearing better news down the road. This is going to be one of those all day events unfortunately. Looks as though we start off with heavy rain initially. Likely at least a little bit of a break at mid day, then additional thunderstorms that fire up for your afternoon and evening drive. Lets start off by taking you outside. Show you scattered storm sstorm scan, tracking the active weather, the heavy rain is most confined at this point. Sort of a vertical line here from say 95, the jersey turnpike right through central and eastern new jersey, and then down into as you say sex county. The brunt has essentially moved through philadelphia. Youre clearly not out of the woods just yet. You still got moisture to work with on storm scan. We look at this at a wider zoom and put things into motion you got to get a cold fro
But this, my friends is unfortunately not going to be over until tomorrow, because we got to deal with the cold front passing. Heaviest rain moving through but stuck with additional shores showers and or thunderstorms gusty maybe a little bit of a break mid day fire up again in scattered fashion this afternoon. Seems like 70 is kind of the magic number. Both occasions youre currently checking in at 70 right now, wildwood, dover, list goes on to the lehigh valley. If youre headed to the shore, today tits not the best beach day, maybe you want to find something to do on the boardwalk, hit a movie, you will have to deal with not just additional showers but thunderstorms. In philadelphia, were shooting for low 80s as well and there, too, once we get the heaviest rain out of here, you get a bit of a break, misha but theres more to come before the day is said and done. Its just the way that it is. Certainly busy on the roadways, too, good morning, everyone, grab your coffee, pack that patien
Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. The Philadelphia Police department in mourning tonight. A young sergeant killed after a weekend crash. Coworkers and neighbors trying to come to grips with the loss. The tenyear veteran of the force was killed when his truck hit a tree saturday night. Im natasha brown, thanks for joining us. Officers say the speed was a factor in this crash but plenty of questions remain about what happened inside the truck in the moments leading up to the accident. Steve patterson has the latest from the 39th police district. Reporter brothers and sisters in mourning. The district is crushed. Blinking back tears, lieutenant jeff describe add deep sadness after losing a man the brightest and best. Sergeant ali was knowledgeable shall, very friendly supervisor here, studying for lieutenant, bright future. Reporter sergeant raphael ali died shortly after midnight sunday morning. Saturday night, investigators is stay ali was off duty. Driving along the