Lancaster county, we have activity moving into honey brook and into reading as well as berks county, these showers and storms are moving north and east at 30 Miles Per Hour. Talk about what we can expect, near record heat in some locations oppressively humid as with well and with that the isolated showers and thunderstorms, it will turn slightly cooler into the weekend and well talk about the numbers and let you know if we hit 90 tomorrow and that will officially make it a heat wave then nydia. The details coming up with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. We mentioned earlier that the Philadelphia School district let out earlier. For construction workers and firefighters, and today had had to feel like a long one, especially for conditions that are dangerous. John its brutal out there and people have to take precautions. It was miserable out here today nydia, a hot humid miserable spring day, when you walk out of an air conditioned car or building its like opening an oven doo
Heat index soared up to 100 in philadelphia and 101 in dover and upper 90s in trenton and allentown, it was a tough day, double scan live showing isolated showers and storms popping up and this is just a shower over norristown moving to the north and east, and no lightning strikes detecting but that is creating a brief heavy downpour and we could have a few more in the overheight hours, if you are headed out take it easy i know a lot of people going to the taylor swift concert, drink lots of water the currents heat index feels like 95 degrees but relief is on the way for weekend. Thank you. Lets check in with action News Reporter john rawlins. Tell us about the ongoing struggle today to keep as cool as possible. The best bet is to stay inside the air conditioning at this point pools are not open but people are attracted to the fountain like the one behind me the preferred choice is spray parks that the city has if you had to work you had to tough it out. Worry that the classrooms would
Not just a problem on the roads but as the airport. To meteorologist bill henley with the first alert weather forecast, the most accurate weather forecast. Bill. The fog is widespread. Its created as warm air surges into the area with lots of moisture. You can see the fog here. Wilmington, this is a live viewed from stadium. The fog extending into south jersey. The thickest fog in coatesville. Pottstown, blue bell, the fog for trenton, northeast, philadelphia, Philadelphia International, wilmington, quartersmile visibility, not any different from millville, atlantic city. Thick fog to start with and temperatures warm for the most spots. A little warmer in Lehigh Valley. Theres a possibility of fog develops at 8 00 this morning as the warm air reaches into the Lehigh Valley. By 11 00, though, the fog will be thinning out and giving us a better view of the cloud. The clouds are above the fog. The clouds, theyll be moving out this afternoon. And actually, youll forget about the fog later
Heading for 70 degrees in delaware and 70 in philadelphia as well. Well go through it hour by hour and show you when you can expect to see sunshine and when the warmer temperatures will race into the area. But first, Jessica Boyington has the first alert traffic. Starting offer in sicinnaminn in an overturned tractor trailer. Its moving away from the taconypalmyra bridge. We wont see any backups there at least approaching the bridge to get into pennsylvania. The traffic is moving by a little bit slowly there. Also in new jersey we are seeing slow speeds thats because of fog. Some speed restrictions on the new jersey turnpike, from delaware Memorial Bridge headed north to 175, exit 7a. Down to 45 miles an hour for the speed restriction on the garden state parkway. Again, both directions from cape may around clinton falls. And more speed restrictions over the bridges. Walt whitman down to 25 miles and the commodore barry, reduced visibility. Influennew this morning, sos making up a multi
Meteorologist krystal klei has our first alert neighbor forecast. Almost into november, and we can say were waking up to some warmer weather. That is something im going to be excited about. Looking at the 24 hour change map this is in comparison to what we saw yesterday at this time. Remember yesterday morning, it was cool out there. Well, now a different story. Which is what we expected, instead, way warmer than yesterday. 21 degrees warmer in philadelphia. And 32 degrees warmer in mount holly than yesterday at this same time. If you step out of the door it doesnt feel bad at all. Atlantic city 29 degrees warmer. Here are the actual temperatures. 60s all over the place. 62 degrees in philadelphia. Dover at 63. And Atlantic City at 64. These morning start temperatures are already warmer than some of the temperatures weve seen for highs the past week. So thats what you can tell we have much warmer air in place. Also have clouds in place. Thicker if you go further to the north, and throu