Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
Governor John Bell Edward said the storm is the strongest to hit his statement did not sustain the catastrophic damage that had been forecast parties joined at the briefing by other state officials. Good afternoon and thank you for being here this afternoon. We have our usual lineup today the officials here today with m me. Chip klein is going to speak in just a moment. He is of course chairman of the cpra he will talk about coastal flooding we have secretary of department of transportation and development, shawn wilson who will speak in a little bit on roadways. And then we have fire Marshal Butch browning who is here to answer questions that you might have about the fire at the Chemical Plant and west lake. And obviously you can ask questions of any of the officials here. First of all it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night. But, we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage.
Meteorologist Lauren Ricketts breaked down the start of a heat wave. It will be a warm one out there. Not only was it warm today but lucky for us we had showers and thunderstorms early this morning. But once we head into the rest of the workweek or weekend into the next week oh, boy well see things heat up. And here is the current temperatures out there. 87 is our temperature here in washington. 91 in frederick. 90 in leesberg. What constitutes a heat wave here in d. C. , three consecutive days above 90. D. C. Not so much, but if you are headed out to dinner partly cloudy, hot and humid a passing shower but this is what we are worried about tomorrow. Excessive heat. And we have a heat vise in place. Well let you know how hot it will get coming up. Cooling centers are opening up. You can go to the reefs center and libraries and Community Centers and Senior Centers in fairfax, montgomery and prince georges county. And we have a list of cooler centers and six things you need to know about
Jersey . Only a couple spots have dipped to the upper 30s. 39 in ewing in browns mills in vineland. Its 40 still in hammonton woodbine and glassboro so were not going to see a lot of frost in south jersey. 41 in miles an hour today and dover. Heres what you can expect for your day ahead. Lots of sunshine. High pressure giving us a nice day and less wind than yesterday so even though the afternoon temperatures are going to be similar well see a high of 66. It will feel better today and were recovering from our 30s and low 40s. By 7 00 a. M. 45. By 10 00, 49. By lunchtime feeling pretty good at 59 degrees. Well hit a high of 66 around 4 oclock today and by 5 oclock coming down from that and 64 degrees. How about the sevenday forecast . We warm up things a little bit. Well talk about that in a minute matt. Were doing the dip this morning with the temperatures. Not dipping too much so far with the speeds. They still look pretty good, karen, here on the vine street expressway. Traffic is mo
You know, in some spots temperatures 10 degrees cooler than they were yesterday morning so if you thought yesterday was chilly, more so today and the National Weather service does have this frost advisory. It lasts until 9 oclock this morning. If you havent done so yet you might want to protect your plants especially there in the northwest in south jersey the frost advisory also continues until 9 oclock this morning. Lets look at these numbers right now. 34 in martins creek. Only 31 in tannersville. Below freezing thats a new number coming in. 35 fleetwood, 34 quakertown, 34 in pottstown, 36 in coatesville. 37 this morning in Kennett Square for the first time a lot of these suburbs decision down into the 30s. 43 in chester but its a little better closer to the center city, 46 degrees. 43 in levittown. In new jersey the numbers havent gotten quite as low as they did in the northwest so its 38 now in ewing and browns mills. Those are new numbers just in. 39 in vineland and glassboro but