Lets go to meteorologist bill henley. The excessive heat warning is still in effect right . The first alert is still in effect because of the high heat and the very high humidity and the potential for strong storms later today. The showers and thunderstorms already showing up on the radar. This morning im tracking a few on isolated showers moving through Lancaster County and the pottstown area light rainfall there. The line of storms for this afternoon is already in western pennsylvania and moving our way. Before it gets here another hot and humid day. We are starting off in the upper 70s for philadelphia northeast philadelphia just dropped down one degree from 80 and still in the 80s in doylestown and pottstown. Otherwise hotter than yesterday morning and just as steamy. 77 in roxborough. We start off with clouds and few isolated showers and 78 by 6 00. 9 00, 81. Upper 80s into the afternoon. As we move into the afternoon, we are watching for showers and thunderstorms. Ill take you th
Weekend. Thats coming up in the seven day. Reporter maybe august will be better. Good morning everybody were looking at construction on the scutter falls bridge southbound side out of Mercer County into bucks county, the right lane is blocked until 7 00 p. M. At this point no big delays that doesnt cause huge jams before they clear out. I95 construction is gone, same on the northbound side between bridge and cottman no issues on the schuylkill expressway or the boulevard. Issues here in abington, a tractortrailer pulled down wires overnight and right now old york road 6 11 is blocked by rock well road near the target store north of the hospital. Until peco gets things repaired stay on easton road to get around it. The delaware Memorial Bridge delays continue because of extra overnight construction on the southbound side of 295 heading into delaware. Speeds in the teens, commodor barry bridge to the north is a much better bet. Edgemore road is closed until august 21 for construction by
3 00 p. M. Well have showers and thunderstorms building in the northern and western suburbs and through philadelphia. 78 degrees currently and muggy as i mentioned under partly cloudy skies. 71 in allentown, 73 in wildwood. Were dealing with oppressive humidity if we get sun out from behind the clouds later on, it will feel darn miserable. 79 degrees by 8 00 a. M. Noon 87 degrees, 3 00 p. M. 90 degrees that he is the high. Ill track the thunderstorms in just a couple of minutes. Reporter pretty darn miserable, youre making me not look forward to the rest of the day. Traffic not miserable weve seen worse mornings, but the volume is building on i95 as you can see. It has built on the westbound side of the vine street expressway were stacked up heading toward the schuylkill expressway again just normal volume. On the schuylkill expressway itself not so bad thats the top left corner of the screen. This ramp from Spring Garden coming away from the art museum coming from the westbound schuyl
Jersey upper 80s low 90ss right now in camden, trenton its hot 92 degrees. 92 in Medford Lakes as well. But how your body reacts it feels like 99 degrees right now in wrightstown. It feels like 93 in wilmington. So the heat, the humidity its going to continue tomorrow we also have some scattered showers and thunderstorms. When i come indoors ill have the timing of that rain as well as when to catch a little bit of a break from the oppressive humidity when i come indoors. Back to you. All right, scott. Thanks. You can stay prepared for the heat with the fox 29 news app. You can get weather alerts sent to your phone check the temperature for the next seven days and download it for free. Developing right now philadelphia congressman wrapped up in scandal. A long running federal investigation yielded an indictment against chaka fattah. U. S. Attorneys Office Coming down hard against the congressman this morning. Fattah and four others on his staff mace charges of corruption corruption, bri
Afternoon you may want to stay inside. It could feel close to triple digits again. Good evening im iain page. Im lucy noland. We do have Live Team Coverage tonight. Shawnette wilson live at the art museum finding ways to stay cool but we start with scott williams. Scott, well have heat and possible storms. Yeah, we have heat, humidity as well as storms, a dangerous combination across the area for your thursday. Take look. Excessive heat warnings kick in at noon tomorrow along the urbanized areas. I95 corridor. That includes in wilmington west chester moving towards norristown plymouth Plymouth Meeting philadelphia as well as trenton. Feels like temperatures 95 to 100 degrees. The High Temperature today made up to 93 degrees. Day two of potential third heat wave of the year. 82 degrees right now but still feels like the upper 80s at 87 degrees when you step outdoors. Well go county by county right now. 80 still in reading. 80 in chester county. West chester 79 in coatesville 80 in bear,