The humidity making it feel so much worse outside. We have Live Team Coverage this evening and we begin with meteorologist Justin Drabick in our weather center. Justin. All right natasha looks like we have about another 24 hours of the high heat and humidity to deal with. The official High Temperature today so far coming in at 95 degrees in philadelphia. So, this is not factoring in the humidity but it did feel a whole lot hotter. This ties the hottest day in 2015 at 95 degrees but its not a record high, set back in 1930. Reading saw a high of 94 degrees, 93 in allentown. Millville at into. Delaware coming in at 93 degrees this afternoon and heres where we stand right now. Current temperature still in the lower and mid 90s in some of the warm spots. A little bit cool intersouth jersey now. Starting to see some upper 80s return but the humidity sticks around. It really goes nowhere any time soon. This is what it feels like when you factor in the humidity. Still upper 90s to around 100 d
buzz buzz if youre the guy from the operation game, you get operated on. Its what you do. buzz if you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well the sun has set over philadelphia but it is still hot and humid all around the area. Tonight at 11 00 were bracing for yet another day of dangerous heat. Good evening, everyone, im natasha brown. Thanks for joining us. It felt like 100 degrees out there today and the brutal weather isnt over just yet. Weve live team three coverage for you tonight. We begin with meteorologist Justin Drabick out on the cbs3 sky deck. Justin when will we get some row left . Well have to wait a little bit. Probably another day or so, natasha, be happy youre inside the studio in the aircondition it feels like oven out here. 11 00 oclock feeling like 90 degrees in some spots across the Delaware Valley and todays high officially did make i
Natasha, back over to you. Justin, see you inn sigh soon. Many people went swimming to escape this heat today but for some a day of fun turned tragic. Tonight search crews recover the body of a male swimmer who disappeared into the Delaware River off of burlington, new jersey. Witnesses say the man tried to swim to a they are by island around 7 00 oclock. New Jersey State Police marine units and burlington fire and rescue all participateed in the search. They have not released the mans identity just yet. And just across the river in bristol, pennsylvania, crews tonight suspended the search for a man who went missing in the Delaware River. He went under this morning at bristol wharf near mill and radcliffe streets. Marine units sevenned for several hours in that area. One eyewitness described the scene when the man went under. The boy was swimming by the buoy he went down, straight down. There was a boat that was just passing at the same time. Kept on going. He was saying help and he kn
Will be the case throughout the day into tonight. There are areas that did get heavy rain overnight. These areas in yellow had generally over an inch and theres an area in orange there in northern delaware, parts of Newcastle County near smyrna. Two and a half inches of rain estimated. Cape may county over an inch of rain. So we dont need a lot more. Were not getting that much at the moment except in parts of burlington, ocean counties, poconos getting a fair amount. But you can see we here in a relative lull compared to what we saw earlier this morning. Now, theres more moisture coming up from the south. Nothing too extreme at this point but its just a wet, wet day. 61 degrees in philadelphia now. Thats actually above the average high for this time of the year. Its only 52 in reading. The temperatures Holding Around the 60degree mark. It will be breezy. It will be damp with periods of rain that actually get heavier tonight. More on that timing and the rest of the weeks forecast with t