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Sunshine. As we look ahead more to look forward to. 12 days until memorial day and 32 days away until summer begins and 47 days from now we hit the 4th of july and we have the details and sunny breaks on the way in the full and exclusive channel 6 action news. It may not look like spring yet but officials down at the shore are not worried they are looking forward to summer and the official start to the southbound less thank two weeks away. And walter perez is live in wildwood with more on that. Reporter hey rick, just in time for the live shot the sun came out in full force and it feels fantastic and well wet your appetite a bit and look at the water in wildwood and it looks fantastic and the winter was not nearly as bad as the previous two, but we cant wait for summer. So what do you do at the jersey shore when its chilly outside be memorial day weekend is still more than a week away. Michael morales says eat icecream. I have to do it. Eat some icecream. While the arrival of the summe
Wave heights a big problem. The strongest wave heights right now from lbi to rehoboth right off shore were looking at 12 to 15foot waves and this unfortunately is causing a lot of beach erosion and a lot of coastal flooding. And then we have the winds. They are whipping. A peak wind gust tuckerton 52 miles an hour. Were talking about Tropical Storm force winds and this has nothing to do with a hurricane. Delaware bay 48 Miles Per Hour, lbi47. The same in ocean city and North Beach Haven reporting a peak wind gust of 44 Miles Per Hour. Unfortunately the winds will still be a factor right into the weekend. Its going to take awhile for things to quiet down. For details on that and the latest on Hurricane Joaquin lets head over to meteorologist adam joseph. Yeah, these peak wind gusts are going to remain the strongest at the shore as we get into your saturday, so if we take a look at the map in total, from lancaster reading allentown through the day tomorrow wind gusts around 20, 30 miles
Because we have greater demands. With an aging population, with kids who need schools, with roads that need to be fixed, with the military on which we are placing extraordinary demands. And, we cant cut our way to prosperity. Other countries have tried it, and it has not worked. Weve grown faster than they have, because we did not pursue these blind, unthinking cuts to necessary investments for our growth. And, by the way, because weve grown faster than them, weve brought our deficits down faster th we turn our attention back home and the weather out there today. The view from storm tracker6 shows us what were dealing with. A drenching storm that will bring part of our area flooding and high winds. Its already a problem at the jersey shore where high tide made the coastal towns look like a lake. Im Sharrie Williams. Im brian taff. The big story, that wet weekend ahead especially for those of you along the shore. Eva pilgrim and Nora Muchanic but we begin with adam joseph and cecily tyn
Thrown it is up towards the Lehigh Valley, berks county where the snow totals are overachieving over 2 feet in many locations there. I want to show you philadelphia at the moment. Again well head back to the radar here and show you a closeup zoom of whats happening in the moment. Again you can see this line of heavy snow right about here moving across i95 at the moment, northern New Castle County in delaware, southern Delaware County pushing into camden and gloucester counties. This is some of the heaviest snow weve seen since overnight last night and its continuing to come down steadily through the next hour or two. So philadelphia into portions of camden county, moorestown, delran, cherry hill youre seeing some very steady snow at the moment. Lets take you to our sweep and well show you a few storm reports weve gotten. Well show you some of the information down the shore. Wind gust reports really if youre looking at dewey beach delaware this morning 7 35 they reported a wind gust to