It will be a glorious day, is that right. It is feeling so much better out there due points are coming down, probably more sunshine then what we saw, yesterday and beautiful shot. We were stuck in the cloud cover yesterday and we had the scattered showers and storms. Some were pretty intense. We had damage down in bridgeton, cumberland county. We will show thaw later in the broadcast. We had heavier then are storms north of fill yesterday evening right up through here pushing up in the Lehigh Valley and northern bucks county. Everything has cleared out. Due points coming down. Humidity levels dropping off and temperatures have drop off as well. Only 61 right now in fleet wood and slatington, pottstown 62, saint david 67. Center city one of the warmer locations 71. And Sea Isle City, 74. Heres satellite with six action radar. We have a upper level disturbance. You can see a counter clock wise spin there that will swing threw up state new york and could drift far enough south to provide
Good day everybody it is wednesday july 26, 2016. Nothing good to report. At least the phillies won yet again. Talk about hot. The phillies are hot. Sue, the weather will be really hot for a few days . Yes, we have been preparing you for. This just we were distracted by all of the rain, thunderstorms yesterday, and we were distracted by the holiday weekend, all every these distraction, but yes, radar is not going to be something that we will need to watch. We need to watch temperatures and dew points over the next couple of days. 76 degrees right now in philadelphia. Relative humidity, the percentage; 82 . Sunrise is 535. So what we do here is we check the actual temperatures, which are pretty mug any philadelphia. It is already 76 degrees. 60s to the north of us. Seventyfour Atlantic City. Already 78 in dover. Think about it, it is 4 00 in the morning and close to 80 degrees. Now, the dew points, once they get into the 60s, and 70s, thats when things start to really get uncomfortable.
And now its 14 minutes late already. Reporter shes one of tens of thousands of septa customers feeling the effects of major rail car defect. Forcing the Transit Authority to pull 120 silver liner rail cars out of service. The result, a modified saturday train schedule causing crowding and confusion. It could be a little worse tomorrow. Reporter just as septa officials were bearing the bad news, some of those defective rail cars were being brought in to septa rail yards to be inspected. Engineers are still trying to get a handle on what caused fatigue cracks on Weight Bearing undercarriage beams on a third of septas rail car fleet. So just how long will these delays last . Lets just say it may be a long summer. Its still very tough to gauge as far as how long things are going to take. Reporter back at suburban station, the platforms were packed. The trains were running behind schedule. I boarded the Paoli Thorndale local to see first hand what the commute was like. Passengers packed in
Express which takes 45 minutes and instead it took an hour and a half to get into suburban station. The platforms were definitely very crowded. The train itself was really really crowded. Reporter six trains were so crowded with commuters they actually had to bypass stations closer to the city this morning. Its uncomfortable. Especially jam packed next to like a hundred other people. A lot of people working on trying to determine, you know, what happened, how it happened, what possible fixes can we make. Some fixes could be faster. Some would be take longer. Reporter septa holding a News Conference this afternoon to address commuter concerns. It wants riders to know its trying to figure out ways to increase capacity. Hopefully, tomorrow will be firming up details on some of the equipment, not a whole lot of equipment, but certainly every bit helps. Reporter septa says safety is its top priority as it moves forward. But one rider we spoke to says the whole situation has her feeling very
Right now a travel nightmare around our area thats only going to get worse. Thousands trying to squeeze on to septa trains for their daily ride m trains so packed they had to skip stops and septa warning it could be months before things get back to normal. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Third of its Regional Rail cars need big over hauls before they are safe for passengers. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live at suburban station tonight. Chris, it was such a tough ride home. Reporter yeah, septa train passengers thought today was bad, with the heat the congestion and the delays, septa Officials Say just wait until tomorrow. Rush hour chaos on the rails. Its just running late and its hot. People are miserable. Reporter it took Robin Weichert more than an hour and a half to get to work today. I left work early so i didnt have to go through that again and now its 14 minutes late already. Reporter shes one of tens of thousands of septa customers feeling the effects of major rail car d