Well, good morning, everybody. Humid, sticky, steamy, stuffy and thunderstorms around in these overnight hours. Here is the current temperature, 80 degrees. We will drop a bit as we get going today another degree or two. 71 kingston and poughkeepsie. 78 bridgeport, connecticut. 80 in the park. 78 around orange. Air quality alert. Bad air once again. That is really across northern Fairfield County but long island, coastal connecticut, you are not in that but the air quality wont be that good. A couple of thunderstorms around bridgewater. There is lightning in that one and around Suffolk County a storm, too to watch out for. That will run up to 80 and up the hudson river valley. Another steamy day. Highs in the low 90s. It will feel like 95 to 100. Heather is feeling better. She is back in action. I am here. We will talk about mass transit. Mass transit is there for you as well. Its doing okay as far as metro north goes. You have the Waterbury Branch. Long Island Railroad doing fine. 1,
Lets go over to dave murphy and karen rogers. Good morning. Some folks waking up to thunder right now. Yes, especially down south. Lets go ahead and take a look. We have satellite and radar and you can see the line of cloud cover and also some of those showers out to the west. Want to go ahead and start you on storm tracker6 live double scan and you can see that in the south, there is a cluster of thunderstorm activity pushing into areas around dover and this is pushing towards the north and east so if youre in south jersey in cumberland and salem county you may be picking up some of that, downpours and lots of lightning. Up to the north its spotty precipitation here or there, maybe a little bit of fog mixed in and out in the northern and Western Areas weve got some basic showers, couple of other thunderstorms pushing away to the east of allentown in through northern Hunterdon County and some of this action out to the west may also make it into allentown a little bit later this morning
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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
Rain. As we widen out there are downpours and storms popping now in cherry hill as well as parts of southern Mercer County ahead that of main line so a lot to go through as a cold front comes through to wipe out this intense heat and humidity. Talking about the heat and humidity and also the hard part of the storms is the intense downpours. You have more on that part of the story. Thats right. The reason why were getting those showers and storms is that because of all of the heat and humidity today. You look at the heat indies feeling like 94 in philadelphia, weve got a heat index of 94 as well in wilmington, close to 100 there in dover. Heat index up the 95 corridor in trenton feeling like 95 degrees. Thats why that severe thunderstorm watch has been posted until 8 oclock. The big concern with these thunderstorms as they move through gusty winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour and the possibility of hail. In combination with that some locations are underneath a Flash Flood Warning up until 6