On, it doesnt get a sea breeze you will stay in the 80s throughout the evening. Humidity still high but it will be dropping. Ill tell you when and how much with the sevenday in a few minutes. As we mentioned, todays near record heat prompted Philadelphia School officials to dismiss students at noontime today. This as doctors warned against the dangers of heat exhaustion in this weather. Nbc 10s jesse gary has been taking the temperature of the city, if you will. He joins us from south philadelphia. Does it seem like the heats keeping people inside today . Reporter well yes and no. There are people outside, i will move out of the way. We move to the East Passyunk crossing. People started the weekend early and are outside having drinks and some food. One thing you will notice everyone is in the shade whether its an umbrella or a tree but they are in some kind of shade. Its like an oasis in the desert, a place to go to seek relief. All day, the mercury has shown no mercy. Sweltering condi
Doctor. We have to be careful out there. Reporter you got that right. It feels every bit the 93 degrees glenn mentioned. We are at the singing fountain in south philadelphia. They just had their dog walking in the fountain. Its the popular destination on a day like today when the city is going to go through a sweaty steamy start to the weekend. In center city these workers struggled lifting a heavy pane of glass and struggled with the heavy, humid hot air that made working outside painful. Its steamy. I dont know its like living on the equator. Horrible. Reporter the city of brotherly love baked all day. Oh, my gosh. Reporter temperatures soared into the mid 90s prompting complaints. Its horrible. Horrible. Its really very very really close. Humid. No fun. Reporter external conditions coupled with a lack of air conditioning in many buildings prompted School District officials to send the 142,000 students home early. Fernando says the hot weather could create health complications. A lot
Live Sky Cam Network in blue rock stadium showing traffic along i95 in wilmington. So tonight we have nbc 10 Team Coverage of the heat and humidity. Cydney long is live in south jersey where the search is on for relief. Lets kick it off with nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. It is the hottest day of the season so far. It felt like as high as 100 degrees. Lot of places still have some sunshine, fair weather clouds but there are a couple of storms we will tell you about. The heat advisory continues until 8 00 tonight and the sun starts going down and the temperature goes down a bit. Its down to 85 in pottstown as that thunderstorm comes a little bit closer there. Its 93 in philadelphia. Of course, its much cooler right at the beaches of the jersey shore. 72 in avalon 75 degrees in beach haven. Theres the isolated thunderstorm. We have more activity back by harrisburg but this is in our area, in the northern portion of Chester County about to move into the e
On, it doesnt get a sea breeze you will stay in the 80s throughout the evening. Humidity still high but it will be dropping. Ill tell you when and how much with the sevenday in a few minutes. As we mentioned, todays near record heat prompted Philadelphia School officials to dismiss students at noontime today. This as doctors warned against the dangers of heat exhaustion in this weather. Nbc 10s jesse gary has been taking the temperature of the city, if you will. He joins us from south philadelphia. Does it seem like the heats keeping people inside today . Reporter well yes and no. There are people outside, i will move out of the way. We move to the East Passyunk crossing. People started the weekend early and are outside having drinks and some food. One thing you will notice everyone is in the shade whether its an umbrella or a tree but they are in some kind of shade. Its like an oasis in the desert, a place to go to seek relief. All day, the mercury has shown no mercy. Sweltering condi
Doctor. We have to be careful out there. Reporter you got that right. It feels every bit the 93 degrees glenn mentioned. We are at the singing fountain in south philadelphia. They just had their dog walking in the fountain. Its the popular destination on a day like today when the city is going to go through a sweaty steamy start to the weekend. In center city these workers struggled lifting a heavy pane of glass and struggled with the heavy, humid hot air that made working outside painful. Its steamy. I dont know its like living on the equator. Horrible. Reporter the city of brotherly love baked all day. Oh, my gosh. Reporter temperatures soared into the mid 90s prompting complaints. Its horrible. Horrible. Its really very very really close. Humid. No fun. Reporter external conditions coupled with a lack of air conditioning in many buildings prompted School District officials to send the 142,000 students home early. Fernando says the hot weather could create health complications. A lot