And their boughs and coworkers may just be finding out as they watch this News Conference tonight. The smith family is very, very lucky tonight. Theyre claiming the sixth biggest prize in Powerball Jackpot history. Well have more for you later on. For now were live in lawrenceville, im nora muchanic, channel6 action news. Lucky day here. Yeah, so great to see one family enjoy that. Thats great. That huge jackpot. Nora thank you. The view out your window hasnt given way the way noras umbrella did. Lets head to adam joseph. Far from a winning forecast out there today especially after the Beautiful Day we had yesterday. Storm tracker6 live double scan will show the steadiest of the rain is now moving east of philadelphia and south of philadelphia and beginning to fall apart break apart west of the city. But as we close into double scan live radar no lightning strikes. We really havent had any thunderstorms today, just been some heavy downpours. Surf city to cape may but its just about to
Lots of clouds and there will be some showers around so not perfect at 8 oclock, 75, by 10 oclock, 71 degrees but there is some heavy rain that will be moving in after the fireworks are over and this heavy rain moving in after midnight so the National Weather service has posted a Flash Flood Watch for entire viewing area from midnight until 10 oclock tomorrow morning. Some of the rain could be heavy enough to cause some localized flooding. This is what to expect. An overnight soaker and then middle of the week through the weekend were looking at a heat wave and this could be a tough one with a heat index near 100. Ill talk about the specifics in the full accuweather forecast. Walter. Does it always rain or july 4th . Seems like it happens all the time. Thank you cecily. This Holiday Weekend is certainly a big one for people to hit the jersey shore. Action cam on the scene in Sea Isle City this morning where some budding athletes. Kids ages three through 13 competed in a string of event
Way through our area so this heat is going nowhere. In fact, the heat advisory has now been extended. It was supposed to expire at 6 p. M. Tonight. Expires 6 p. M. Tomorrow night when the heat index is going to go above 100. And you just showed you millville felt like 105, not in the heat advisory, but i just want to tell you, if youre in the along the shore, everywhere expect it to be very dangerous and very uncomfortable for another day tomorrow. Well let you know when this heat wave is going to break coming up in that full accuweather forecast. Brian . All right, adam. Thank you. These steamy temperatures are forcing some schools in the area to change their schedules already. Students in trenton got out early today for the second day in a row. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic live in trenton this afternoon with reaction from parents and students. And, nora, im going to go out on a limb and say students were not too upset about this. Reporter no, most of the kids i spoke with,
For the most part, we have a lot of lightning, some heavy rain and that heavy rain is going to be in the forecast for the next few days. We have a first alert out because of it. Chester county, berks county, all of delaware. So we expect this rainy pattern to continue, some rain could be heavy at times, i dont think everyone will be seeing all this heavy rain, but the areas we first mentioned in the first alert could be seen with some localized flash flooding, with any heavy thunderstorms that we happen to see roll through. With a closer look at the timing, we go over to glenn hurricane schwartz. Thats a pretty impressive area of thunderstorms moving into your area, and just going to get better and better as we go through the evening hours, look at the hour by hour forecast. About 7 30, were seeing some of that already coming into newcastle county, delaware, parts of new chester county, where the first alert is. That one area may weaken as another area moves up from the south. Look at
Clouds mixing with some sun, a little breezy and get, up to a high of 44 degrees at 3 oclock. Theres a slight chance of a Late Afternoon or early evening snow shower popping up in the northern and western suburbs. Mostly in the poconos. These are small low impact events. Karen rogers what are roads looking like this morning . Unlike the past few commutes we have no weather related problems so thats good news. Looking live at i95 at allegheny you might want to watch for a slick spot or two. We had people reporting on twitter up in the northwest and the driveways a little bit of an issue. Here were looking southbound heading towards center city. Everybody is doing just fine right now and the overnight construction near the betsy ross bridge has cleared. We do have an issue here way tree that came down and brought down wires with it in those 50 miles an hour wind gusts we had yesterday. This is river road in tinicum township and its shut down at this point at smith town road so if youre i