Extremely windy. The wind is gusting here at the jersey shore. Lets take a look at the video. You can feel the wind. You can hear the surf in the darkness. That surf is creating a danger of rip currents. Officials from the southern cities and states up the eastern seaboard are stressing caution, mainly, do not go out adventure seeking trying to ride the large waves. It can be dangerous. State of emergency for more than two dozen counties in North Carolina and then warnings for coastal communities up here. How does all of this impact other plans you may have for your fourth such as fireworks . Weve been investigating that. Well have that for you coming up in the next 30 minutes. Were live in atlantic county, new jersey, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. And weather is already changing some towns plans for july fourth festivities because of the expected rain tonight. Several towns moved the fireworks from tonight. You can see the updated list at nbc10. Com. Get weather updates at your finger tips
That is right, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing they are getting hit north of the poconos into new york state, the last 15 minutes close to 3,000 lightning strikes, most of the energy with this line of storm is missing up to the north and more developing near washington, d. C. And the actually system is in the ohio valley. A storm warning in affect until 9 00 tonight, most wont see the storms but if you do gusty winds of more than 60 Miles Per Hour and lightning and isolated hail with this system and the atmosphere is getting a lot more juicy tomorrow. As we begin to tap into moisture from this. This is Tropical Storm arthur, you can see the eye wall is forming now and strength ening and that shows the winds, sustained up to 65 Miles Per Hour and moving slowly and it will continue to do so and unfortunately for our region, there is really no big change on the computer forecast model. Though all keep it offshore but a category one hurricane and that will cause rip currents on the
Area, we have a few more thunderstorms developing this evening late at night. In atlantic county, crossing the ac expressway near mays landing one strong thunderstorm there. Another one around willingboro in parts of burlington county. This storm is strong too. Its going to be moving along the Atlantic City expressway here. This one will continue along the i95 corridor. Other than that were looking at another storm in new castle county. More showers and storms in the washington area. We can certainly see a few isolated ones tonight. Tomorrow is the first alert weather day, another one because of heat again and heavy rain. The potential for flash flooding, that is also possible tomorrow. And the risk for some strong thunderstorms, again. We have a Flash Flood Watch out for pretty much the entire area, not everybody in new jersey, but for most of us for tomorrow morning through friday morning. And also the potential for some severe storms for the area shaded in yellow tomorrow. Heavy rai
Rain. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is what happens when heat and humidity reach the breaking point. And most of you saw it and heard it tonight. This is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. It went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. The rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. Tonights storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. While Atlantic City electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. Del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. Pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. Meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tristate area tonight. Lets begin with double scan radar and cecily tynan at the action news
Heres whats happening. Lightning strikes may have sparked several fires armed the region. Act sk around the region, accuweather is tracking more thunderstorms today. The search continues for a man on the delaware river. Craft breweries are battling high hops prices. David murphy is here, matt pellman is filling in for karen rogers good morning. Reporter lets check Storm Tracker 6 live double scan we have rain off the coast. A couple of showers popped up in Chester County they may move into northern montgomery and southern berks. But most of the rain is gone. Were expecting rain today and tonight, some of it could be heavy. Theres a flood watch posted for virtually the entire region. One to three inches of rain total from what we had last night and what well get later today and tonight. Well get a brush by from arthur, friday morning. This will extend until friday at noon. This afternoon we had a late round of showers and thunderstorms in the overnight hours. Now we have a cold front to