73 degrees down the shore. 72 in millville. Some spots down south on the humid side. Low to mid 70s on the boardwalks if youre heading out for an early stroll. I want to show you the dewpoints. Around 70 or upper 60s in through millville dover wildwood, but down to 61 in philadelphia. Thats borderline getting down to the 60degree mark when we start to consider things not humid at all. 71 by 6 00 a. M. , 75 by 8 00 a. M. Much less humid mainly clear a nice start to the day. As we finish it up, 78 by 9 00, 86 by noon, 90 is the high around 3 00 p. M. 87 by 6 00 p. M. That sets us up for a nice weekend. Matt pellman well talk about that, not only here but the shore. Reporter thank goodness for the bright light of the blue moon because the overhead lights are out on the schuylkill expressway by montgomery drive a darker ride than normal, but the traffic is moving fine and the overnight construction by gladwyn has cleared out. Everything open on 7 of. On the pennsylvania turnpike westbound
This morning. So far so good along the schuylkill expressway by montgomery drive. Eastbound go the tail lights in toward center city. Does it look darker than normal . Overhead lights were out overnight. Now, the good news is thats becoming less of an issue as the minutes tick along and the sun starts to come up. Had overnight construction on the westbound turnpike approaching willow grove. Thats open on the pennsylvania turnpike. Into jersey on the turnpike connector, eastbound off the river bridge to 130 construction going for the next halfhour in the right lane. Mercer county they are working on 2935 between sloan avenue and route 1 taking out the left lane in both directions. Gloucester county you have another halfhour of work on the northbound side of 47 and 42 freeway blocking up to two lanes until 6 00 a. M. Its a better morning at the delaware memorial bridge, overnight extra construction there has wrapped up, speeds in the 50s. Closure of cedar road in edgemore road in wilming
From the west into places like Chester County, Delaware County and philadelphia but farther to the west some heavier rain and down to the south moving away from baltimore, a strong thunderstorm and that is triggering thunderstorm warnings highlighted in orange across New Castle County delaware, kent county delaware and then well see whether or not theyre extended later into south jersey. A closer look on that system and it is headed towards places like middletown and townsend between now and about a quarter after the hour. Odessa about 8 17 and clayton 6 18. These only take about 15 minutes for the worst of it to pass you but along the way youre going get lots of lightning heavy downpours and perhaps that gusty winds ahead of the rain so a good idea to be to take cover indoors as they pass or at the very least stay inside your car because of the frequent lightning that were seeing. Dont what happened you in a car under a big tree that might fall down, though. As we take a look at tempe
Comfortable degrees right now. Low 60s in reading and trenton. 69 on the boardwalks down by the shore. 71 by 8 00. Noon, 81 the high will be 85 degrees reading at 3 00 p. M. The clouds are getting thicker and late day or evening shower possible down by the shore. Looks like the showers will past to the south tonight that means most of the rain later tonight and tomorrow morning should be in south jersey and delaware, although philadelphia could catch a little bit of that. Ill show you that on future tracker 6 coming up next and well look at the models suggesting that. What about the roads karen. Reporter the roads are not as bad as they normally be, its summertime. Live i95 southbound traffic starting to pick up. 15 minute ride southbound thats not bad overall on i95. Speeds 35mile an hour near girard. The schuylkill expressway is in good shape mostly in the 40s and 50s, moving along nicely. We have a problem with a disabled vehicle plymouth road at west germantown pike. An accidents o
Everybody in the mid to upper 70s across the region and how about those dewpoints . These are much higher than yesterday. Pretty much the entire region in the 70s and anything over 70 is oppressive humidity and you will feel it especially as the sun gets over the horizon and you start moving around and trying to get in some activity. By 8 oclock, 76. By noon, 86. The one good news about today, 89 is your high at 3 oclock. So, technically it look like well end the heat wave but its still going to feel pretty oppressive today. When i step inside well talk about lower numbers in the accuweather 7day forecast but a better chance of some drenching rain. All thats ahead, matt. All right dee david. Lower numbers were expecting them on this speedometer in just a little bit with there normal morning volume increasing. Here along 95 just starting to see a few people tap the brakes as they travel southbound and into the work zone at cottman avenue. Slows slightly again farther south approaching t