Handle, new zealand, where it just turned midnight, so it is official 2017 there. You see the celebration, including fireworks, New Zealanders celebrating as other parts of the world will follow, goodbye 2016 and hello 2017. Hello, chris sowers. Reporter happy new year. As he get you outside, it will be 45 to 47 degrees. Not too shabby, and it will stay dry. New years celebrations look good. As we go live from our city hall camera, the flags are still at it is chilly, well have to deal with cooler conditions. Quakertown, 24 degrees, clear skies and calm winds. Temperatures have dropped off pretty quickly out here. Pottstown, 24. Coatsville, 23. Thats cold. Tannersville 24, center city, 31. Chester showing 29. We have a lot of across delaware, as well. Glassboro, 24, hammonton blue berry county, 27 degrees. Satellite and radar, clear skies across the mid atlantic and the northeast, just a couple of clouds pushing through the great lake states. Thats the way today will play out. Mostly s
At 34. Just the slightest breeze out of the southwest general winds speeds 3 to 5 miles per hour. It might feel two to three degrees cooler. This afternoon well warm up nicely. High, thin clouds across the mid Atlantic States this morning. Forecast for today, it will be warmer than yesterday, yesterday we managed a high of 42. Today were shooting for 47. Lets say a a sun and clouds, a little bit breezy. Yesterday we had the gusty winds gust as high as 40, 45 miles per hour. Today it is in the ten to 20 miles per hour. The 47 will feel like 43 or 44. Coming up, looks like a mild start to the new year, especially tomorrow were talking about highs in the 50s again. Rain arriving next week. Seems like this whole month has been a washout. Could we make a run at 60 degrees on tuesday. Its a possibility ill have the details coming up in the full forecast in just a few minutes, alicia. Thank you. Breaking overnight, police have identified a Pennsylvania State trooper killed in the line of duty
For philadelphias oldest new years tradition. It sure has. Thousands are expect to do crowd city streets this sunday morning for the 116th new years day mummers parade, and preparations for the big bash are already impacting a whole lot of people. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. Among the preparations load road closures. Fox 29s brad sattin live in center city with that story. Brad. Reporter chris, right by city hall theres ice skating going on to my left. Everywhere else big trailers like the one beside me and then on that side as well really doing a lot of parking restrictions as a result. Tomorrow some of these lanes around city hall are going to be closed as you work your way down broad street on sunday, of course, thats the route of the parade no driving down that way. If you are coming to watch the parade, your best bet really is to take septa f youre in the parade, chances are you were practicing tonight. If this werent a clear enough sign the mummers parade i
Bridge is still closed and they have not said what it will reopen him. Lets look at the live look over center city and dilworth park. It is damp out there. Reporter we have so much to talk about this morning, i dont know where to begin. Lets get you outside well start with the fog first and get into the winds and the coastal flood advisories and the shebang and all that. Were looking at the camden waterfront, or penns landing, you get the idea its hard to make anything out because the fog is so thick. The visibility is not as bad across the interior sections of south jersey and the jersey shore. We have a band of rain pushing through, some of it is coming down at a good clip down Atlantic City wildwood and cape may, light to moderate rain, this stretches into eastern portions of cumberland county. Thats where the wet weather thorning. This morning, again we want you to drive slowly and allow yourself extra time. Down to. 3 in reading and allentown. 3 in philadelphia and trenton. Five m
We want you to slow it down on a lot of roads here, you get into the outlying suburbs, all of a sudden the visibility drops completely here, were down to. In wilmington. 3 in allentown and trenton. Half mile in reading. 1 mile in lancaster. 2. 5 in philadelphia. Somewhat better numbers off to the southeast because its raining down there, its almost like pick character poison this morning. Youre either getting the fog or the moderate rain. Storm tracker 6 live weve set it in motion for you, the moderate rain extends from Atlantic City southward through cape may county. Thats the last of it for now, it should exit the coast in the next halfhour or so, oncer it pushes off the coast, most of the afternoon remains dry with a little bit of drizzle and mist, mainly a cloudy day with areas of fog, similar to yesterday. High temperatures on the mild side. 52 degrees is the forecasted high. But whats going to happen over the next 24 to 36 hours, a full blown noreaster is on the way, it will char