Center city at aikens oval. What this means for people who are most at risk for heatrelated illnesses like the young and elderly, they really need to stay inside during the heat of the day. For everyone else its best to drink plenty of water. If youre outside, seek shade. On days like today when the city of philadelphia issues an excessive heat warning youll find more people crowding their local Senior Centers. Anyone 55 or older is welcome. Many of those who are in the most vulnerable population do go. At the West Oak Lane location in philadelphia, we found yesterday they have plenty of water available. The air conditioning is on high. They have low stress activities to help keep peoples minds off the extreme weather outside. When it gets hotter then people will stay longer. Well get a few more people in their homes that will come in because its just too hot. Its a great place. And saving energy is a big concern for seniors. Really anyone on a fixed income. Coming up in the next half
Delaware. Locally heavy rainfall could cause localized flooding. We will track all this for you. Aside from that we are talking about excessive heat. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is standing by with a look at that. That excessive heat warning has been canceled as the line of thunderstorms has brought the rain to knock down the temperatures and knock some of the humidity out of the air, too. It was really warm and humid early in the day and then just became hotter and more humid and we hit 87 degrees at noontime 88 degrees at 1 00 and there we go. 90 degrees at 2 00 just before the storms hit because it was already down to 74 in reading and 79 in allentown when they got the storms earlier. By 5 00 its now down to 77 in philadelphia but its back up to 82 in reading and allentown. The sun coming back out, warming things up again. The feelslike temperature is back up into the upper 80s there. Down to 78 in philadelphia, 75 in wilmington, delaware. That feelslike temperature
And the potential for some small hail. We will track these storms as they head towards the shore. Then we will see nice changes overnight tonight. Before that today we have hot weather. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is standing by with a look at that. Those storms put an end at least temporary end to the heat although we did get into the 90s in at least part of the area. It was a close call but we had temperatures going up from the 80s into the 90s in philadelphia. We got up to 90 degrees at 1 00 and the official high was 91 but you can see how much cooler it got north and west because the showers came in sooner. Then we dropped into the 70s as the showers came in and now we are all pretty comfortable. We now have an official heat wave, three days in a row of temperatures of 90 plus. Now we are going to be busting the humidity but the temperature is still going to be up there. As we go through the day, tomorrow, you are not going to see a heat index like this where it go
Humidity kills you here, but if you have outdoor plans we are looking good today. We have nice sunrise shaping up this morning right now of a. M. , there you go, live look from the Atlantic City camera, sun over the ocean right there, beautiful shot. Thats going to be going to be the trends, plenty of sunshine and thats sun will go to work and warm us up. 71 degrees currently at Philadelphia International airport, 60 in allentown, 62 red willing, 66 in millville in urge new jersey, 56 degrees, up in mount pocono, and some suburbs also on the cool side as well. Many spots already dropping into the 50s, early this morning, so comfortable start to the sunday, 59 degrees, in quakertown, winds are calm, slitly out of the west to northwest, again thats dry winds, just like yesterday so humidity levels stay on the low side. We can see that in the buy point temperatures, in the 50s right now. Thats pretty much un heard of in the middle of summer so enjoy it while we k that will change, storm s
Clouds to our south will remain there fair weather clouds should build for the afternoon with increased heat. A loft sunshine around, low humidity levels, forecast hi, make it up to near 90. It will be close. Good shot at reaching the sixth day, before the sea breeze kicks in, and at the poconos, looking good, mostly sunny, high near 90 degrees 80 degrees. Relief in the seven day and well get to that in a few more minutes. Justin, thank you very much. If you want septa Regional Rail pass the for the upcoming papal visit bet ever cross your fingers passes go on sale starting tomorrow through on line lottery. Cherri gregg from sister station kyw news radio 1060 is litsch at septa headquarters with details good morning. Good morning only 350,000 pope passes will be up for sale and if you want one, you are going to have to take a chance by signing up on line beginning monday morning. At 12 01 monday morning phase one of papal pass sales goes live, and for 23 hours and 58 minutes anyone, ev