Now. The first round of the heavy rain has missed us to the north and west. It will be on the way. These are the current teat in philadelphia. 59 in the Lehigh Valley. 51 in delaware. We will see them continuingo th. Youll need the rain gear today. Ill break it down hour by hour and show when you toheavr showe neighborhood when im back in first Jessica Boyington and first alert traffic. North philly, between route avenue, we have a little bit of a situation. The southbound side is closed because of the crash and a lane loss on the northbound side. A little trouble getting through there. Were watching in new jersey, an overturned tractortrailer on the eastbound side near 4 mile circle. We have a lane lost there because of that. Not too far away, still in southampton township, an overturned truck on 206. On that northbound side around redline circle. A few problems there in southampton township. Watching for lane restrictions and small delays. In willingboro, a pole down southbound near
Look at light rainfall force 10, looking at light rainfall now, heavier later. Showers in southern Chester County and New Castle County now. The Lehigh Valley getting some of the heavier showers. Now most of the storm is still to the west. Theres a lot more storm ahead. It wont be an allday rainfall. On and off rain. At times, some heavy downpours. No sign of cold air. These are the current temperatures. 60 in the Lehigh Valley. 61 in philadelphia. The rest of the area in the 50s. Weekend and wet. Grab the windy and wet. Grab the rain gear, but you wont need the heavy coat today. You will need it this weekend. Ill break down the forecast hour by historic in ten minutes, show when hour by hour in ten minutes, showing when to expect the heaviest rain. First to jessica boyington. Were moving the camera, but i wanted to get a second to show you route 70s westbound side. Theres a transformer fire up ahead. Now theyre reporting that all lanes are closed. It looks like theyre diverting traffi
Winds. We have issued a first alert that will last through tomorrow as we look live rightow at first alert radar. The rain should be out of here in time for tomorrs eagles playoff game. Temperatures will take a nose dive. Youre looking live at the field from our eagles next camera. Good morning to you. Want to make sure youre prepared for all of this. Theres a Weather Threat outside. We have our powerful mobile radar to give you the most accurate picture of whats coming. Lets bring in glenn hurricane schwartz. A lot to talk about. Yeah. Just tremendous changes over the next 24 hours. Right now we have fog. This is philadelphia. You could barely see the skyline. You can see Atlantic City in the background. That is one of the things thats going on right now. We have heavy rain, gusty winds and a first alert off of that and arctic plunge that will be going on tomorrow. We extended this through saturday. We have the flood threat, ice jam possible and the arctic plunge on saturday. The rada
The west, look at all the snow thats coming through the ohio valley. This is not a snow event for us, but the shades of pink is showing freezing precipitation, wintry mix, that could be on the way for us. Through the evening well be watching those temperatures stay steady. Were going to be watching periods of heavy rain and maybe a little bit of a mix for the Lehigh Valley and berks county before dawn tomorrow. Thats when the temperatures plummet and thats part two of the story, glenn has that. Here we are in the 60s, near midnight tonight, and then when you get up in the morning, wow, were going to be seeing dramatic changes across the area. Right now, we still hav warmth at 62 in philadelphia. 64 in allentown. It set a record earlier today. Mount pocono set a record. Look at all these places in the 60s. A little bit cooler right near the beaches with the wind coming in off the cool ocean. You can see the temperatures all the way through the night, 60 or above. There we go. Just four
This is what you can expect. This is what well be looking at. Well see the heavy rain tonight. Glenn will cover the arctic blast tomorrow and later next week. Were going to be looking at snow once again. Well do a full circle to where we were days ago. The heaviest rain at this time has moved out across the atlantic. Its off shore of the jersey shore. Were looking at a band thats making its way through the Lehigh Valley. This will provide steady brief showers as it moves eastward. You can expect to see a shower. Yoil g youll get a break this evening. You can see were getting one break now. This little line will affect mainly berks county and the Lehigh Valley. Then we get another break. Then steadier rain will develop later tonight. Behind that you can see the wintry precipitation moving in, even a little bit of snow thats coming across parts of the ohio valley. Lets go ahead and walk through tomorrow. Well get the break, you can see the showers let up a bit. We actually see a little b