Wildwood where many told us the heat wasnt as bad there. If you werent swimming, you were as close to the waves as you possibly could be. You need to take it easy during this dangerous heat. Thats exactly right. A lot of cities and towns in the area are Offering Services to help people stay safe. Weve got more information on that scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Lets go to Sheena Parveen for the details. Youre saying storms, too . Pretty strong storms. And a lot of that is in part due to the high heat and high humidity. We do have one Severe Thunderstorm Warning for parts of Chester County. Its heading toward montgomery county. Could even move into the philadelphia area. This is a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 5 30. It includes charlestown down through coatesville approaching westchester, and stretches from phoenixville down to coatesville. Very heavy rain. A lot of lightning right over 76. Here as we look in Chester County, and even the potential for hail in this storm. Its
Were live in rio with all the action. Nbc 10 news starts now. We begin with our first alert. It is day six of this brutal heat wave, and these runners know how quickly things can turn dangerous. This afternoon the city of philadelphia announced another person has died from heatrelated causes. He was a 72yearold man from West Philadelphia who had other medical conditions. This is the citys fourth death during this heat wave and for thousands of other people down in wilmington it is a even harder to stay cool today. Look at this. Take a look at what happened on route 202 in the sharply neighborhood. A trash truck knocked down two power lines this morning. Thousands lost electricity meaning no air conditioning and no fans. Delmarva power tells us everyones power should be restored this evening and because its so important to stay safe during this dangerous heat members of the Philadelphia City Council Passed out fans to people in need today. If youre looking for help like this we put toge
Feeling around 100 to 110 degrees. Maybe even a little bit hotter. Well talk more about your weekend forecast and the next chance for thunderstorms coming up. So we dont really need to tell you not to spend long stretches of time outside. Tim furlong is joining us live from lewis with a look at how people at least tried to brave the elements today. Tim . Reporter yeah, jim, for many people, this is the end of their vacation. They wanted to get beach time no matter what. But the water as you come down here, it feels great in lewis right now. All these people still out here. It feels a lot better than it did earlier. The sun is still pretty intense. It feels like youre on the top rack of the oven. Its too hot to do anything. Of course we came to the beach. Reporter on the delaware beaches a great place to be. Reporter the water is extra warm, the sand is extra hot. No flipflops, sprint up to the Ice Cream Store where sales actually go down when the temperature goes up this high. Quite a
Im george spencer. Its now 5 00 on this saturday morning. Our first alert continues today because of the dangerous heat. Lets get right to meteorologist crystal for a look at the steamy weather. The first alert and all over the area. Philadelphia, through the pennsylvania suburbs, new jersey and delaware. No one escaping the heat. Were talking high temperatures mixed in with that high humidity meepg that it feels even hotter than it truly is. This is going to last through saturday and your sunday as well. The weekend is going to be a steamy one out there. The hot and humid conditions make it feel like 100 to 110 degrees by your peak afternoon hours. Look at the feelslike temperatures right now. This is not a good sign. Its feeling like 92 already this morning. Reporting in philadelphia. 85 now in holly. Dover also at that 92degree feellike temperature. When you start off feeling like low 90s, thats when you know 110 is certainly in reach as we move into your afternoon. Heres at radar a
But dont be fooled. We have feellike temperatures in the low 90s around parts of philadelphia. To put that in perspective, midweek, we saw highs peaking in the low 90s. This is very hot for us to kick off your saturday. Were under that first alert as we mentioned because of this dangerous heat. Its for everywhere. Were not going to skip out on locations. New jersey, delaware through the suburbs and in philadelphia. Through sunday, were talking hot and very humid which means we feel like temperatures around 100 to 110. Today leaning more so to the 110 direction over many locations in our viewing area as a result of actual temperatures soaring into the upper 90s around areas like philadelphia. Here are the feellike temperatures. Philadelphia, feeling like 90 degrees. 91 in dover. Coatsville at 82. Still a sticky start out there. 76 in allentown and 81 for trenton. In mt. Holly, 83 degrees. At the shore, look at that. Atlantic city. 89 for the temperature. Unfortunately, if youre hoping f