Rain going on and thunderstorms that are weakening and continue to do so. For us, a few clouds here and there and temperatures in the lower to middle 70s by mid morning. And now it is going to be slightly cooler today, and still, very close to that average high of 88 degrees. And by the way, we reached our highest average high, and we are kind of sliding down from there. And get the brief round of thunderstorms during the afternoon today. And if you happen to get a storm, your potential rain, is still fairly light. Only in the tenth rain area or so. So for the early part of the evening, the storms move out. By i would say 7 00. And however, the clouds hang in, and amelia, thats because of some cooler air that is moving in. We will talk about what that does to our next couple of days weather in a few minutes. Thank you, marty,. 5 31. As we get across the thursday commute, so far, so good, a pretty easy ride, across most parts of town and a live look here at i70 and brighton where right
You know, he is now the oldest to win an olympic gold medal. Michael phelps is 31 years. And 41 days. But who keeps specific track of how old they are . I do. 15,850 days. Today. Of course. Yes. Of course you do. And our favorite moment, the one a lot of people are talking about, maybe not favorite but the one people are talking about, the moment, oh, yes, uh huh, no, no, he was like no one is taking this from me. Not this time. No. He was beat out in london in the 200 fly. He has owned this event. And he was coming back with a vengeance. You could tell he was thinking of nothing but doing this race again, in this moment, and against these competitors. And getting that medal that he wanted so bad back in londen. And we have seen the fierce side of Michael Phelps but the side. His son is baby boomer and fiance nicole and they are reacting and he said many times as he had the press conference in the last week, how much it means to him that his son gets to be part of this history and we w
Anybody working outdoors indeed. And what they have to wear. With heavy work clothes. Thank goodness there is things such as wicking material. It is needed. You want to wear your wicking material to the bus stop because your suit will get soak through if you do not do that you will to have change clothes here to daze. It that is steamy. Do expect it is going to be uncomfortable. Even though we have seen a couple little blips on the radar last couple of hours overall it is a quiet a start to the day. Excessive heat warning we have been discuss ago this goes into effect at high noon, for counties shaded in the hot pink. We call it hot pink for a reason, right. We will be experiencing feels like values that easily top off in the triple digits with no problem later on today. Heres where we are standing 77 is current temperature for one example outside cape may courthouse here at middletown ship high school in the city of philadelphia, we are already in the 80s we will have no problems gett
Network which is producing a nice sunrise, really pretty views, being taken outside middletown ship high school in cape may courthouse. 76 degrees here and looking at storm scan three, there is not much happening just yet. Give it time really, i would say this is beginning of the stretch, of the forecast that is honorary pete because we see this same pattern sort of just stuck for a matter of days and pattern is this, it is humid with dew points in the 70s were talking regional wide right now. It is very steamy outside. Already were going to see these temperatures spike to 90 with ease here today if not hitting it near shore points we are at 84 today. We will call it partly sunny generally speaking and that is a running theme with the days ahead but along with that instability that is created by building heat and humidity and some sunshine we have to watch for scattered showers and then are storms. That is story moving forward and that is sort of how headlines break down a string of 90
Fill get some help from folks up in bucks county. But once again the big story on action news tonight is day four of this brutal heat, heat index making it feel like well above 100 degrees across the region and we have just learned that two people from philadelphia have have died as a result of the heat, all as the entire viewing area remains under an excessive heat warning until tomorrow night. We have live team coverage. Trish hartman joins us from Fairmount Park where people have been seeking out the shade anywhere they can find it. But we will begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee and the latest from accu heather, melissa. Walter, it is just not the heat but it is also the humidity that makes it unbearable stepping outside. As you mentioned this is day four of the heat wave number five here in philadelphia a. It started wednesday with a high of 93. Thursdays high 95. Yesterday we maxed out at 97. Today our high in philadelphia 98 degrees making this the hottest day so far, this ye