Around enjoying this friday evening, and they are all excited to kick off this Holiday Weekend. We will go to lauren casey at belmont plateau, and shes got a look at our Holiday Weekend forecast, lauren . Thanks, guess contact im out here on the plateau beautiful view of the city behind me our fair city. Little hot out here but we have moved to the shade. It doesnt feel is he bad in the shade with that breeze but heat is on after a nice break earlier in the week. Humidity has ramped up and temperatures cruised back in the 90s after a break earlier this weekend philadelphia our current temperature 91 degrees we have cooled, 1 degree over the last hour, temperatures in the 80s and 90s across the area. Eightyeight in allentown with rain cooled air in mount pocono at 72 degrees. Dew points a big difference over 24 hours. Dew points in the mid 60s and lower zero sevens. It feels steam toy oppressive. Also, we are dealing with thunderstorm activity far north and western of the city berks cou
River in the 1600s, the dutch es, fins and swedes moved in. Colors of the philadelphia flag are blue and gold, that is colors of the flag of sweden. Reporter doctor lee arnold is direct of library and collections at Historical Society of pennsylvania and says this sit has quite a story to tell. I dont think there is any other city in the United States that can come near philadelphia for its history, or its importance within the nation. Reporter in 1682, a proud quaker named william penn founded philadelphia he put two greek word together. Penn wanted philadelphia to be an inclusive city, penn, in pennsylvania isnt even named after penn seen at top of the city hall since 18934. He is now being cleaned for his once in a decade tune up, the state of pennsylvania is named after another william penn, his father, admiral wilson men. King charles the second owed the admiral money and gifted him land. Pennsylvania. Doctor arnold gave us a look at William Penns personal letters. In one he wrote
Around enjoying this friday evening, and they are all excited to kick off this Holiday Weekend. We will go to lauren casey at belmont plateau, and shes got a look at our Holiday Weekend forecast, lauren . Thanks, guess contact im out here on the plateau beautiful view of the city behind me our fair city. Little hot out here but we have moved to the shade. It doesnt feel is he bad in the shade with that breeze but heat is on after a nice break earlier in the week. Humidity has ramped up and temperatures cruised back in the 90s after a break earlier this weekend philadelphia our current temperature 91 degrees we have cooled, 1 degree over the last hour, temperatures in the 80s and 90s across the area. Eightyeight in allentown with rain cooled air in mount pocono at 72 degrees. Dew points a big difference over 24 hours. Dew points in the mid 60s and lower zero sevens. It feels steam toy oppressive. Also, we are dealing with thunderstorm activity far north and western of the city berks cou
In the afternoon. So, get ready. Hopefully you turned the ac on last night, it is a warm, and muggy morning for us this saturday. And it will be getting hot this afternoon. It will remain humid. But then we will watch for couple every thunderstorms to common later in the day. That will could maybe at least try to cool us down a little bit in the evening time frame. But it is going to get warm as we get into sunday. So again, not a comfortable Holiday Weekends, but warm Holiday Weekends, to say the least. Storm scan3, right now, not too much happening across the delaware, Lehigh Valley back into jersey it, cents a quiet start to the day for us. But you can see our cold front now out in western pennsylvania, shower, thunderstorm activity firing up in South Central new york back toward pittsburgh, as well, than front will track eastward as we go throughout the day today. It will bring in that warm and humid air, because well have some southwesterly flow, the front itself will trigger a sh
Well. Outside right now, it is calm. We have cloud cover across the city, watching for warm temperatures, little muggy out there, temperature right now in philly, 78 degrees, south wind. Coming in at 9 miles an hour, and we actually are registering a heat index, because our humidity is so high that it feels like zero eight, even though now it is 78. Talking dew point, in the 60s and 70s. So early in the morning, like this, a little bit uncommon, and it definitely is what you will notice when you step out the door, again, that 78 is warm. But what you will feel, walking outside, like youre walking into a sauna, 72 for the dew point, wilmington, even as high as 74, dew point in dover, 76 degrees, to kick off this saturday. Day planner 08 degrees by 9 00 o the day for us, going to start to see some showers, maybe around lunchtime or so, as we get later on in the afternoon, temperatures creep up to 89 for high. We will see thunderstorm activity develop after about the 4 00 or 5 00 time fra