From the control room of center city. Thats the view from the adventure aquarium, while the weather radar is showing some showers across delaware and south jersey, you can see them in central and southern delaware and into cape may. Thats some light showers but there is one moderate shower that is moving right across delaware bay and heading into portions of southern extreme southern cumberland county. Those showers are on the way to cape may. Youll need an umbrella if youre leaving the house right now but it wont be an allday rainfall. Clouds around for much of the day. Some breaks in the cloud, philadelphia, 355 degrees, 40s in the suburbs and 53 degrees in delaware. Some of the cooler spots include collegeville at 46 degrees right now, 44 in new hope. We will warm to near 70 degrees this afternoon. Got the extended forecast coming up. Futurecast as well to show you when we can expect to see more showers during the day today. First lets check in with Jessica Boyington with your first
Rain could create more dangerous issues today. Oh, no, oh, no. Amateur video captured the powerful flashflood waters in hilldale sweep away a van and suv monday. Oh, no. There goes the van. Oh, my goodness, oh, dear, it went over the thing. Oh, no. Three women, 13 children, were inside. Only three managed to survive. One is still missing. Virginia black watched the tragedy unfold. I was really shook up. It was very heart wrenching. Front ends loaders and bulldozers working day and night, clearing away piles of mud and debris that washed onto roadways, roughly 500 people have volunteered to help in the rescue effort. Right there where the vehicles were parked. Hill dale mayor, philip barlow, says his town is prone to flooding, but hes never seen destruction this severe. Were just greatly humble by this. We realize, you know, this is an act of god. This is something that we cant, we cant control. Nearby sigh on national park, four people exploring this deep canyon were found dead. Offici
Philadelphia, 65 degrees, lots of sunshine, north of west cooler for our cities to the north and west. Then our suburbs closer to 62 degrees. Later on, temperatures range between 83 and 87. Sunny and nice a little warmer than what we saw yesterday and we will stay this warm at least through tomorrow and the day after. Im tracking a few changes closer to the weekend. Ill give you a peek of that when i see you again. Lets check in with first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. And were still watching this multivehicle accident scene between bridge and cottman avenue. Its in the northbound side we have two lanes blocked. So a little flurry now. This is the back sup. The two left lanes blocked. No problem if youre headed soub in the opposite direction. We dont have delays there. If you are out in new jersey on 295 northbound around 206, one lane blocked with an accident scene there. Moving along great, we have the fiveminute drive time northbound 55 up to the walt whitman bridge so n
Yesterday. Heading into mid80s. 64 degrees in philadelphia. 53 in pottstown, 61 in wilmington, temperatures in dover at 61 degrees. 59 in wildwood, 62 in Atlantic City. Lots of sunshine, any clouds we have will be high thin clouds. No rainfall to tell you about either over the next couple dafs so eight hour city planner shows 62 degrees. Take a look at your lunch hour, 81. Todays high will go to 87 degrees, ill let you know how long you can expect our temperatures to stay that hot in my next forecast in about ten minutes. Lets check in with first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. Were on the vine expressway, looking at the cameras here around 24th we have no problems, camera moved down a tad but you can see not a car in sight. The westbound lanes in there so thats headed to the schuylkill expressway. With the threeminute drive time up to the schuylkill and speaking of the schuylkill okay there as well. Into the Center City Area 13 minutes, no problems or incidents in the way, s
Pushing warmer than what we saw yesterday. 61 degrees in philadelphia, 49 in chester springs, 56 in kenneth square. 48 in quakertown, 52 in allentown and temperatures in the low 50s right now in the poconos. You can take a closer look at millville. 51 degrees, a cool start in lots of locations. Look at the Atlantic City airport at 56 degrees. Our city planner shows that our temperatures will be slow to warm again today. But the big difference is yesterday we stayed closer to 70 degrees by 1 p. M. Now closer to 80 degrees. 71 by 10 00 a. M. And todays high will reach 84 degrees. We expect to warm up more than that as we push into tomorrow. Ill let you know how long well stay there coming up in my full forecast. Lets check in with first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. Were still dealing with the 3alarm fire with a lot of closures. That fire is at 13th and chancellor street. Were dealing with multiple closures in the area. Fire Department Activity on the scene. 13th street east