Location that will pick up more sun than anybody else, probably the jersey shore, even there were not expecting walltowall blue skies, partly sunny type of day warm and sticky. Well see what happens with the line showers and thunderstorms approaching from the west. Right now it doesnt look to impressive. As we pick up the heating of the sun, thats when things will start to blossom here and the showers and thunderstorms arrive around 4 00 p. M. , 5 00 p. M. This afternoon. For today, the call from accuweather in philadelphia. Clouds and sun, warm and sticky, high of 89 with the humidity it will make it feel like the mid 90s. Showers and thunderstorms developing late. As a matter of fact heres future tracker 6, 5 00 p. M. Its hitting the western suburbs and then it pushes through the city by 7 00 p. M. , or 7 30 p. M. When i come back well look at that with future tracker 6 and she how long it last in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast and talk about cooler changes next week. We
Poconos 796 69 up there. 6 so is when we get humid. 65 is humid. 7 70 is oppressive. Everybody is above 70 degrees as far as dewpoint is concerned this morning. These numbers will not drop off during the day, if anything they may increase him very hot and humid this afternoon. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast lots of clouds, peeks of sun throughout the day. Steamy, lateday showers and thunderstorms develop. 3 00 p. M. , 85. Its quiet through the first part of the day. 5 00 p. M. , 88. At that point were seeing thunderstorms to the west. In the city by 6 00 p. M. , 6 30 p. M. , 77. 88 degrees, some of the storms could be strong to severe. Ill have the details in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast in about ten minutes or so. To developing news out of new jersey where where the government is now shut down. Chris christie has called for a special session of the state legislature to begin in less than two hours after an agreement was not reached on the state budget. Lawm
But the big story on action news tonight is a rocky start to the fourth of july weekend forecast. It has been humid, unsettled with the mix of sun and rain and right now a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until tonight for most of our area taking a look from sky six over the Philadelphia International airport, you can see rain, coming down right now and those dark skies are above. Action news cam was in abington as well, just a few minutes ago where you can see rain is really coming down. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is here now with the first check of the accu Weather Forecast, medical list a. Walter, we have been un settled throughout much of the afternoon and looking at Storm Tracker six live double scan radar you can see showers , storms, moving out of the northwestern suburbs pressing into that 95 corridor and slowly press nothing to areas in south jersey. Not only do we have a severe thunderstorm watch out but a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for sale em, camden, gloucester cou
Of the long 4th of july weekend at the jersey shore. Chris sowers is here with the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Not bad, right. Reporter the humidity drops off, yesterday you couldnt breathe at one point. We have fog this morning because of the rain that fell last night. So we have a little leftover moisture, so a lot of this will burn off quickly. Later this afternoon it will be very, very nice. Its going to be hot, were talking about high temperatures in the 90s, but the humidity drops off, the result will be you can breathe when you step outside later today. All right, visibility wise not too bad we have a couple of areas in through here, that are seeing patchy fog. Trenton, 3 miles, 8 miles in philadelphia. Everybodys 7 or 8 miles or higher. 68 in allentown. Reading, 68. 73 in philadelphia. 66 in millville. Atlantic city, at the airport, 72. Cape may, 71. Trenton, 71 and the poconos checking in at 63 degrees. Again, humidity levels are high as of now, but we do expect t
Cloud in the sky, humidity levels are uncomfortable, but they will be dropping during the afternoon. Temperaturewise, 74 in philadelphia. 72 in millville. Wilmington, 73. Dover, 73. Atlantic city, 75. Heres the problem right here, just like yesterday at this time dewpoints are in the low to mid 70s makes for an uncomfortable morning. Dover, 73. Philadelphia, 71. Millville, 72 on the dewpoint scale its all the way at the top. Well, what you would have saw, it gets all the way to the top, becomes very uncomfortable once we Start Talking about dewpoints in the upper 60s and low 70s. Later this afternoon we replace the low 70s with upper 50s, low 60s. That results means dewpoints are on the comfortable side. Once again, we are talking about lower humidity levels over the next few days, thats the big story today, tomorrow and tuesday. It will be hot, high temperatures close to 90 degrees, if not a few degrees warmer than that in a few locations. For the jersey shore, 85 degrees, mostly sunn