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Party. Tamala edwards will have live reports from the Wells Fargo Center. David murphy has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, we had thunderstorms this morning. Reporter we did, we have heavy downpours and lightning pushing east over south jersey. These were severe thunderstorms producing strong damaging wind gusts, the severe warning has been dropped, the main issue is downpours and lightning. You want to be careful if you want to ride those out indoors, probably take 15, 20 minutes for the worst of that to pass by you. We have the excessive heat part of the story. Theres an excessive heat warning until 6 00 in the Center Counties highlighted in purple where the heat index values could feel like 105 or more. In the advisory areas it could feel 100. Everybody needs to hydrate and take ac breaks. If you can avoid being outside, good for you. 78 in millville. The numbers will be bouncing up once the rain gets out of here. We have dewpoints in the 70. Once you get into the 70s w
Gunfire rings out in philadelphia sending a man to the hospital with serious injuries. Plus, it is harry potter midnight mania, the wizard is back casting another spell. Well send it outside to chris sowers with a check of the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. You had to lose the coat out there, its hot and sticky. Reporter it feels like a swamp out here, very hot and sticky. Very floridalike, the tropical air is hanging on. Its dry on city avenue, the roads are wet, but its not raining. You have to go up a couple of miles to get into the heavy, drenching downpours. Most of the activity is shifted east into southern new jersey, although we have cells in lower montgomery and bucks county. You can see the heavy rain route 1 heading out of frankford into bensalem. This cell is dropping heavy rain. The National Weather service issued a flood advisory, lower montgomery and lower bucks county. Extreme western Burlington County and Philadelphia County up for another 15 or 20 minutes or
Right now. It is steamy out there, i cannot imagine the poor people waking up without airconditioning. Reporter its going to be a tough go over the next a couple of days. Its a little better today, but it will be horrible for tomorrow. Lets get you outside and show you whats going on as we look backed toward the center city skyline. Its a nice morning in terms of sky conditions. We have nice clear skies and humidity leaves are dropping off north and west of center city. Again, that humidity will come back full vengeance we head into tomorrow. Dover, 73. Cape may, 74. Theres the frontal system that produced the stray shower and thunderstorm activity yesterday. What its doing is lowering the humidity lervelgt to levels o the north, it will slow down southern cumberland county. North of there, the humidity will easily up a bit. South of there it will be a sticky afternoon. Monday this front returns to the north up to the pa new york state line, that humidity comes pouring in here tomorrow
Nights stormy weather. 7 00 a. M. , sunday morning, we begin with the near triple digit heat gripping the area. Sky6 live hd looking live right now. It is hot out there, so be ready. Outside we go, meteorologist chris sowers with the accuweather forecast. Chris, slightly less humid today. Reporter yeah, i was going to say it feels a whole lot better than it did yesterday, the air was really, really thick. The dewpoints were in the 60s and low 70s. We had a cold front slide through thats what touch off the showers and thunderstorms. Feels okay right now, 76 in philadelphia. Allentown. 70. Cape may, 75. Beach haven, 77. Heres satellite and radar, just like yesterday for the most part it will be a nice day, combination of sun and clouds, he wont see the spotty showers and thunderstorms, most of the time were dry and with lowering humidity levels even though it will be hot, it should not feel quite as intense. The call from accuweather, lots of blue upstairs, mostly sunny, 96. Yesterday we