Chris cimino is with us. His poughkeepsie along the shore and out at islip, 49 degree. Very uniform temperatures. A lot of clouds left over and leftover rain you see spinning north and east of us. Its thinning out and the back edge is getting closer and closer to the light rain and mist. Its going take a few more hours. Once we get to noontime we start to see things dry out. Clouds will hang tough most of the time. A High Temperature of 58 degrees. Changes in the sevenday. Any changes in the commute, heres some changes. Ill start with good news. We had an accident heading on the new england throughway. That is cleared out and so have the delays, but we still have a disabled vehicle. This is heading southbound on the fdr drive. That takes out the right lane. Emergency vehicles got there. Left lane closed for construction. The center lane getting by. Very minor delays. Also with the flooding out there, route 35 is shut down between south street and clinton avenue. Northbound, you have a
Pennsylvania as well. But for the most part were looking at drying conditions. The farther north and west you go through the region the better chance you have of some lingering cloud cover and if the clouds are low and thick enough there might be a little bit avenue sprinkle or perhaps some drizzle but obviously we are in the process of improving and down to the south you can see that yeah theres clouds but some breaks beginning to develop and i think well see the return of some sun as we roll through morning and especially this afternoon. 54 degrees in philadelphia, 54 in allentown, 53 reading, 54 in wilmington, 51 in trenton. Fairly even numbers from north to south beneath that deck of clouds with those holes beginning to get punched in them. 51 degrees on the bus stop this morning. By 6 oclock, 54. By 8 oclock partly cloudy cool dry in most neighborhoods. The farther north and east you go of philadelphia the better chance you have of maybe a leftover sprinkle. Not enough to bother w
Elias local 5 is your Severe Weather headquarters. Good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Elias Johnson with chief meteorologist brad edwards. The story everyone is keeping an eye on. The possibility of torandoes and the guarantee of rain and wind brad weather adlib brad meteorologist sam schreier is here with more details on what to expect today and tomorrow sam weather adlib brad meteorologist sam schreier is here with more details on what to expect today and tomorrow weather adlib we are in for a very busy day of weather for all of iowa. Heavy rain, storms and all expected to affect the state as we head into this evening. The heaviest rain today is going to occur in northwest iowa during much of the day and early night with rainfall totals easily reaching around 2 inches in some places. Here in central iowa our rain is going to come in waves, because we like southern and eastern iowa have a much better chance for Severe Weather. From the late morning thro
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