Showers around 9 00 a. M. We expect the showers around. By lunch time, i think a lot of the rain will break up or lighten up. Periods of rain as we go more into the afternoon. Its still going to be chilly and it will start to get windy, too. Coming up, ill show you the afternoon forecast. More rain lingering as well. Lets take a look at the roadway. Jessica boyington has your traffic. Sheena, were watching 95, slippery spotsc here around cottman avenue. This drive time is okay. Woodhaven road to the vine street expressway, this is the southbound traffic headed towards center city with a 14minute trip. Average speeds dropping into the 50s. Were still up there. The bridge closures to watch for, falls bridge closed for rehabilitation work until april. Your best bet is to take the city avenue bridge right now. I promised id get back to you about the tacony palmyra. We have a scheduled opening for 5 10. No problems on the ben franklin and the Burlington Bristol is back to normal. Tracy . N
Start the week. Dont forget the umbrella before we leave. Steady rain for most of the area. Weve been seeing it overnight. The green shows us the late rain, light and steady around philadelphia and parts of south jersey. Some of the heaviest showers are in chester county, crossing over 76 here soon. Were not seeing lightning with this. As we go through the morning, periods of rain will be in the forecast. For everyone this morning, it is going to be a wet morning commute, west chester starting to see some of the heavier rain, also right around parkesburg. The moisture continuing to move in from the south and west. Yes, you want the umbrella around this morning. Keep it around as we go through the afternoon. The shower chance isnt going to be done just yet. Temperatures around 50 degrees. Its rainy and chm y and it will stay that way as we go through the rest of the morning. 7 00 a. M. , 47 degrees, breezy with rain still around. And by lunch time, we could see a lot of it tapering off.
From the National Hurricane center. Wind are at 130 miles an hour, gusts to 160. Way this storm is looking i expect it will be stronger at the next update, possibly not a category five but stronger category four at least. It is moving very slowly southwest at just 6 miles an hour. Heres the latest track. This is encouraging because thinks first track in 48 hours that has kept joaquin completely off the coast of the united states. It will be a category three through the day saturday and downgrades makes closest pack to us far off shore as a category one and weakening to a tropical storm. National Hurricane Center did say in the discussion that they expect a eastward adjustment as long as nothing goes wrong and changes in the information that were getting over the next 12 to 24 hours. You can see the storm well off to the south. What were dealing with tonight doesnt have anything to do with joaquin, it is heavy rain, moisture along a frontal boundary and persistent northeast flow that wi
My gloves are here. My heavy coat is here. Its kind of weird, the other day i was in sandals and shorts, you know, on friday, running around. Did get a little nippy for that. The full changeover of your closet and put away those warm weather clothes just yet, temperatures will get back to normal. The question is when will that happen . When are things going to warm up . Bill henley is here with your forecast and your answer. Not today. How about that . Going to stay chilly through the day. This should catch no one off guard. It was in the forecast for days. We have got sunshine, temperatures are warming up, but it is going to stay chilly through the day. This is a live view from the nbc 10 stud grows, a little bit of a breeze blowing. Look at that, not a single cloud in the sky. We are seeing a pretty quick warmup, dropped down into the middle 30s in philadelphia. Philadelphia international, low temperatures of 35 this morning. It is now 45. Very little wind at the airport. The wind is
We are seeing a light breeze and that is going to make it feel colder as we go into the rest of the morning. Our temperatures are 28 degrees in the poconos and 42 in philadelphia, and 38 degrees in wilmington. Its a bit warmer in wildwood at 37 degrees, and most of the area under a freeze warning and it goes back into affect until tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. And the only exception is Cape May County which is under a frost advisory along with trenton, and that frost advisory staying in effect until 9 00 a. M. Sunday morning. Our city planner shows us that as we go into the next couple hours, by 10 00 a. M. , 45 degrees, and by 1 00 p. M. , only 50 degrees, and our high today at 52, and i will let you know how long the cooler conditions will last. And we caught up with folks in westchester. Coats, hoodies and scarves seem to be the normal in westchester. And the temperature did not stop folks from heading to dinner, and we talked to one woman that just relocated from miami and she tel