South philadelphia that was the shower that past on city avenue. Some damp roads in new jersey for folks heading to the shore. Temperatures are mild, 75 in philadelphia. 71 in allentown. Cool in the poconos, 58. With a westerly wind, the shore not bad there lower 70s. Heading to the phillies game or anywhere this evening there will be clearing coming in from the north and west after the clouds and showers pass through, first pitch temperature 72 degrees. By the 9th inning in the ladder part of the evening in the 60s. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows a complex near chicago that will rotating south and east and pivot threw the memorial day. Umbrellas will be on standby the entire weekend, again, it is not completely dry and not a washout. Temperatures below normal and sunday looking to be the dryest of the three weekend days. Well chat about those the city, the shore the poconos well break it down for you coming up in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Reporter im very ex
Stick wuz with us, reporting live in southwest philadelphia, bob brooks channel 6 action news. All right, bob, thank you,. Now to the countdown to the Holiday Weekend, memorial day is around the corner. Hundreds of thousands of people around the Delaware Valley are gearing up to get away. Were getting reports that traffic is heavy around the region, a sign that the weekend is well underway. Trish hartman is live at the shore, but first, cesily tynan will have the latest on what to expect from Mother Nature this weekend. Reporter the pressure is on for the Holiday Weekend. It will be a little bit unsettled. It is starting out that way, double scan live showing were getting a few popup showers, they are brief, not all that widespread. We have a batch of sprinkles over new castle. Another one in Cumberland County a little bit of activity in burlington county. Tonight all of that will be dissipating and temperaturewise not too bad. Past few days stuck in the 06 os. Philadelphia, 74 degrees
Sevenday outlook. Well talk about that in much more detail. Have to end this note on a positive note. Thats worth the wait. Thanks, buddy. As the rain turned to sleet and then snow this morning, the roads turned slippery fast. Next thing i know, im sliding up the hill and my gosh look where i ended up on the guard rail. It saved me from going down this ravine. He lost control this morning on the northbound lanes of interstate 270 right near the montgomery and county line and that was a tricky storm for road crews to pretreat today because most of the work they put on the roads to pretreat them would have been washed away in the rain. The Maryland Department of transportation has more than 2600 plows on the roads tonight. In d. C. Its more than 200 trucks trying to keep the roads clear and the Virginia Department of transportation has some 3800 trucks on the roads in northern virginia. Abc 7s Horace Holmes is checking on the roads from mobile track 7. Horace, where are you right now . W
What did you find out there . We are under a Winter Weather warning out here until 10 00. This is what we are seeing all over the place. We are talking about a quarter of an inch of ice. The driver of this tractor trailer is lucky to be alive. During the height of the ice storm, and he was driving on route 68 west when he lost control of his rig. The pickup truck collided with the trailer. Neither driver was seriously injured, but the crash close down the west downside of 68 for nearly an hour. As i skipped the roads as i said kate the rose, making for treacherous driving ice caked the roads connecting for treacherous driving conditions. It was impossible to stay ahead of the freezing rain. It lasted for several hours. Some businesses closed early. What are folks saying about the Road Conditions . Nasty and horrible. Stay inside if you do not have to go outside. School was canceled inside and again today. How far into springtime table be in school . We are ready for the winter to be ov
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