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Sunshine early in the day. Right now were not waking up to quite as nice of a sunrise, few more cloud but overall it is a very nice start to our sunday. Of course, not end to our weekend because we have that extra day tomorrow but some sunshine mixing with the cloud cover, little bit of fog developing across Lehigh Valley as well. This is bernville around reading area, Junior Senior High School and it is a foggy start to the day, out in Lehigh Valley, 53 degrees, limited visibility. A change at the beach where lots of folks will be heading down to the beach this afternoon, those cloud are out there, not too many people out just yet but it should be a relatively good beach day. I talk about the fog, lancaster we have limited visibility, same as reading we saw that picture there, from bernville, afterward, allentown, mount pocono, less than perfect visability and gets better as we head back down toward the shore points there looking at ac back down toward wildwood and perfect visibility.
Outdoor activities. We have been talking about that for the first hour. It looks like any afternoon plans you have, today, and during the Daylight Hours will not have any kind of problems. It will not affect your plan. Now if you have anything going on later tonight or early in the day on memorial day, that is when you have to keep an eye on the sky but for right now taking a look at top of Eyewitness News from sky scan with a few high cloud out there a very, very nice start to the day, very mild start to the day, check out these temperatures. 64 degrees currently right now in center city and it does feel muggy, maybe slightly humid with a dew point of 61, outside on the sky deck you can feel that humidity but overall it is in the a terribly muggy start to the day. Little bit of fog out toward lancaster, reading and area of the lehigh valley. Temperatures cooler as well. Fiftynine. Fiftysix in reading. As sunshine comes out which it has it will burn that fog off looking at 60s though f
White smoke and black smoke there as you continue to fight this fire. It broke out about 3 30 this afternoon. This is at interstate 80 near the coming sky way. Firefighters say the blames are burning down a ravine. The winds not helping out the situation. They are fuelling the fire. Cal fire says it has the potential to grow quickly, so they are concerned in acting fast. Firefighters say the refinery is not threatened. No evacuations have been ordered. Now taking you to a live picture here. This is what it looks like at the 101 southbound. This is in san jose. Traffic very slow here as crews battle this brush fire. This started after 4 00. You can see that 680 interchange just over the 101 there. A lot of smoke there on both levels. And of course the backup there on 101. Heres what the fire looked like at its peak. It is unclear here what started the fire. Right now were not hearing about any kind of injuries. Crews are being pulled in from as far away as santa cruz to fight three brus
Roads if at all possible. Now were also hearing about evacuation orders for parts of the huntington area of fairfax county. This impacts People Living along fenwick drive and arlington terrace. You may remember the huntington neighborhood has been prone to flooding before. Weve got a crew heading that way. Well bring you a live report as soon as possible. Lets get the latest where the storm is right now from topper. Shes essentially sitting in southern new jersey now right between ocean city, new jersey, and also cape may. Maximum established winds 90 Miles Per Hour, gusts to 115 and were looking at oddly enough, we talked about this a little bit at least behind the scenes that some of the Hurricane Force winds now are actually south of the track as opposed to north of the track. Well keep an eye on that as we go through the next several hours. Its starting to get critical. Lets talk about wind gusts. For more on that heres meteorologist erica grow. Thats right. You can see where the w