I dont come its 60 degrees out there. Reporter it feels nice out there this morning. Reporter as soon as you step outside, its like, wow, i remember this. The roads are wet, we had some light showers coming through so far. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows you these, so far so good its light nuisance rain, roads wet, you want to use extra caution, matt pellman will talk about any problems that pop up this morning right now its fairly light. Were looking at the arrival of heavier rain a little bit later on this morning and off and on through the day, but even then it will be pockets of it coming through temporarily. Were keeping an eye out for fog, because theres a chance this develops across the region. So far so good in philadelphia with a 7mile visibility. With the areas highlighted in gray, berks county, Lancaster County and Chester County and through wilmington we have visibilities including a third of a mile in wilmington. Its dense, i had a twitter follower saying things loo
The west, look at all the snow thats coming through the ohio valley. This is not a snow event for us, but the shades of pink is showing freezing precipitation, wintry mix, that could be on the way for us. Through the evening well be watching those temperatures stay steady. Were going to be watching periods of heavy rain and maybe a little bit of a mix for the Lehigh Valley and berks county before dawn tomorrow. Thats when the temperatures plummet and thats part two of the story, glenn has that. Here we are in the 60s, near midnight tonight, and then when you get up in the morning, wow, were going to be seeing dramatic changes across the area. Right now, we still hav warmth at 62 in philadelphia. 64 in allentown. It set a record earlier today. Mount pocono set a record. Look at all these places in the 60s. A little bit cooler right near the beaches with the wind coming in off the cool ocean. You can see the temperatures all the way through the night, 60 or above. There we go. Just four
A heavy band has moved into the atlantic. That came through earlier. We have a little bit of a break for philadelphia, south jersey and parts of delaware. But we have this next band that is stretching from berks county, Chester County and northern portions of delaware. This is our doppler on wheels, this can be placed wherever we see the biggest threat or heaviest rain. Weve put this near limerick and potts down and collegeville, you can see these shades of yellow. Thats where were watching these heavier pockets come through. Were watching for any isolated thunderstorms. That is a close up look. This is a broader picture. Its smoothed out. This Doppler Radar shows the exact same thing. You can see it stretching past limerick and potts down. Reading, youre getting a little bit of a break. Allentown, you have a steady shower. Further south and youre looking at west chester under steady rain. Wilmington, steady rain in your neighborhood. Lets go on down into parts of delaware. Middletown,
Threat. Good morning, im dray clark. The river is rising putting people in bucks and mercer counties in danger. Pamela osbourne is live where precautions are under way. Reporter good morning. Were expecting the river to rise up about a half foot above flood stage sometime today and its all because of this. These thick chunks of ice that jammed up the Delaware River prompting road closures and Flood Warnings. I want you to look at this. This is farther down the road in lower mayfield township. What youre looking at is river road and its hard to tell where the road starts and river ends. Police have blocked off river road from richardson and east trenton and also blocked off some of those residential side streets that lead down that way. But back to the Flood Warning, theres one in effect for southwestern Mercer County and southeastern bucks. Some locations like trenton, yardley and morrisville, could experience flooding which we are beginning to see. We already saw some of that over on
That have flooded neighborhoods in the last month. The Water Department is having trouble keeping up with all of the calls and requests for service. Nbc10s matt delucia is live in northeast philadelphia. The city is turning to social media for help. Explain. Reporter thats because they are getting so many calls, they cant keep up. Now the Water Department asking for everyones patience and understanding during this time. They know this is the time of year for water main breaks like this one that happened here along caster avenue at raun recently. This was one of more than 175 water main breaks so far this year. Those issues have been popping up in manayunk, center city, no neighborhood is immun. To put this is immune. To put this in perspective, with another half of month to go, this january has been much, much worse than last year at 175. Calls to the Water Departments Customer Service line to report water main breaks have resulted in wait times of more than two hours. Each then it may