From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. The ocean city boardwalk is bustling tonight as memorial day weekend kicks off with a beautiful evening after what was a very hot day but a change is coming. Tropical storm bonnie is churning toward the east coast as we speak and she is already bringing heavy rain to parts of the carolinas. Good evening, im rahel solomon. Natasha brown has the night off. Lets get right to meteorologist lauren casey in our Weather Center to help us time out the rain that is heading our way. Lauren. Thanks so much. Yeah, today was certainly a scorching day. 90degree heat in may and not just today. This is three consecutive days in a row and that defines a heat wave. So, its officially, yeah, heat wave in philadelphia. Our average High Temperature 77 degrees. Remember most of the month of may . Dreary, wet, cool conditions. Wow, what a transition over the last several days and it is extremely mild at this late our getting a live
70s, even mid 70s now up in reading, 74 degrees. 70 in millville 71 at the Atlantic City airport, so rapid warm up this morning, a loft suburbs already reaching the low 70s. Rain showers, well to our south. Across southern virginia, North Carolina, so theyll take their time to get here. So between five to 8 tonight start to see shower chances returning, and another hot day. Getting close to 09, but the clouds may drop the temps down little bit. 88 for philadelphia, near 80 at the shore, nice breeze off the water over the ocean 50s, keep the temps there in the 70s, and then mid 80s up in the poconos, so the rain returns tonight. Memorial day, you want to have the back up plan, just to be safe. If you have morning plans, morning looks to be the worse of the rain, afternoon could get little bit better, temperatures low 80s, pretty much clouds throughout the day. Talk about drier weather returning for the middle of next week, details in a few minutes, jan, back to you. Justin, thanks so mu
We hit our first heatwave of the season yesterday, three days in a row, 9 degrees, so were in a good run at least for the holiday weekends, things go downhill little later today and tomorrow. So you may want a back up plan for memorial day itself. We will talk about that in just a bit. Good start to the sunday morning, check it o generally sunny skies, few fair weather clouds up there, high thin serous clouds, just sign eventually approaching storm system, 66 at the airport, dew points not too bad. Were in the upper 50s, so not that humid right now. That will change little bit later this afternoon. Current air temperatures across the region pretty much mid and upper 6s, check out millville dropped to 58 degrees, so comfortable start for parts every interior south jersey, mt. Holly at 61, 64 pottstown, there is is the winds, currently calm, about five miles per hour, and the wind speeds president pretty much stay on the light side today. Storm scan3 quiet. Thats great news this morning,
Out over the carolinas for the next few days, traveling south, thats where you will find the worse of it, but the showers do start to arrive later tonight. Nice morning, though. Check it out. Mostly sunny skies, see some high sewer us clouds out there. Those are the high ice crystal clouds eventually they lower and thicken us sign of approaching storm system it, means some rain will be approaching us later tonight. 67 at the airport, south wind at 3 miles per hour, up to 70 now, up in the lehigh valley, allentown, 63 millville, 66 at the Atlantic City airport, 70 in palmyra. So another rapid warm up this morning, with pretty much mostly sunny skies. You can see some clouds streaming in from the south and west, near baltimore, washington, and then the showers still well to the south, southern virginia and north carolina. Eventually they do get in here. I would say after 5 tonight from south to north. So todays high up to 88 degrees for philadelphia, near 80 at the shore, maybe late day
Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. The ocean city boardwalk is bustling tonight as memorial day weekend kicks off with a beautiful evening after what was a very hot day but a change is coming. Tropical storm bonnie is churning toward the east coast as we speak and she is already bringing heavy rain to parts of the carolinas. Good evening, im rahel solomon. Natasha brown has the night off. Lets get right to meteorologist lauren casey in our Weather Center to help us time out the rain that is heading our way. Lauren. Thanks so much. Yeah, today was certainly a scorching day. 90degree heat in may and not just today. This is three consecutive days in a row and that defines a heat wave. So, its officially, yeah, heat wave in philadelphia. Our average High Temperature 77 degrees. Remember most of the month of may . Dreary, wet, cool conditions. Wow, what a transition over the last several days and it is extremely mild at this late our getting a live look at Center City Phi