Doctor. We have to be careful out there. Reporter you got that right. It feels every bit the 93 degrees glenn mentioned. We are at the singing fountain in south philadelphia. They just had their dog walking in the fountain. Its the popular destination on a day like today when the city is going to go through a sweaty steamy start to the weekend. In center city these workers struggled lifting a heavy pane of glass and struggled with the heavy, humid hot air that made working outside painful. Its steamy. I dont know its like living on the equator. Horrible. Reporter the city of brotherly love baked all day. Oh, my gosh. Reporter temperatures soared into the mid 90s prompting complaints. Its horrible. Horrible. Its really very very really close. Humid. No fun. Reporter external conditions coupled with a lack of air conditioning in many buildings prompted School District officials to send the 142,000 students home early. Fernando says the hot weather could create health complications. A lot
Live Sky Cam Network in blue rock stadium showing traffic along i95 in wilmington. So tonight we have nbc 10 Team Coverage of the heat and humidity. Cydney long is live in south jersey where the search is on for relief. Lets kick it off with nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. It is the hottest day of the season so far. It felt like as high as 100 degrees. Lot of places still have some sunshine, fair weather clouds but there are a couple of storms we will tell you about. The heat advisory continues until 8 00 tonight and the sun starts going down and the temperature goes down a bit. Its down to 85 in pottstown as that thunderstorm comes a little bit closer there. Its 93 in philadelphia. Of course, its much cooler right at the beaches of the jersey shore. 72 in avalon 75 degrees in beach haven. Theres the isolated thunderstorm. We have more activity back by harrisburg but this is in our area, in the northern portion of Chester County about to move into the e
Live Sky Cam Network in blue rock stadium showing traffic along i95 in wilmington. So tonight we have nbc 10 Team Coverage of the heat and humidity. Cydney long is live in south jersey where the search is on for relief. Lets kick it off with nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. It is the hottest day of the season so far. It felt like as high as 100 degrees. Lot of places still have some sunshine, fair weather clouds but there are a couple of storms we will tell you about. The heat advisory continues until 8 00 tonight and the sun starts going down and the temperature goes down a bit. Its down to 85 in pottstown as that thunderstorm comes a little bit closer there. Its 93 in philadelphia. Of course, its much cooler right at the beaches of the jersey shore. 72 in avalon 75 degrees in beach haven. Theres the isolated thunderstorm. We have more activity back by harrisburg but this is in our area, in the northern portion of Chester County about to move into the e
Philadelphia look at south philadelphia at 77 degrees. 76 degrees in northeast philadelphia. The humidity thats high is going to be staying with us as temperatures take off so feelslike temperature, temperatures and humidity combined up to 97 degrees by lunchtime today. Close to 100 this afternoon for that number. The temperatures, air temperature, measured in the shade, 77 degrees. By 11 00, 87 and then 92 and climbing at 2 00 this afternoon. Well go through the day neighborhood by neighborhood with a forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, lets tell you how traffic is moving. Jessica boyington in the first alert traffic center. Were starting to pick up just a little bit. Downed tree in bucks county. Well keep you updated. 295, right around black horse pike one of the active work zones hanging around. 12 minutes southbound by the scene from 38 up toward this point at black horse pike. Part of the right hand shoulder and it goes back a ways but two lanes getting by and see
Doctor. We have to be careful out there. Reporter you got that right. It feels every bit the 93 degrees glenn mentioned. We are at the singing fountain in south philadelphia. They just had their dog walking in the fountain. Its the popular destination on a day like today when the city is going to go through a sweaty steamy start to the weekend. In center city these workers struggled lifting a heavy pane of glass and struggled with the heavy, humid hot air that made working outside painful. Its steamy. I dont know its like living on the equator. Horrible. Reporter the city of brotherly love baked all day. Oh, my gosh. Reporter temperatures soared into the mid 90s prompting complaints. Its horrible. Horrible. Its really very very really close. Humid. No fun. Reporter external conditions coupled with a lack of air conditioning in many buildings prompted School District officials to send the 142,000 students home early. Fernando says the hot weather could create health complications. A lot