Rain. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is what happens when heat and humidity reach the breaking point. And most of you saw it and heard it tonight. This is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. It went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. The rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. Tonights storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. While Atlantic City electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. Del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. Pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. Meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tristate area tonight. Lets begin with double scan radar and cecily tynan at the action news
Way it looked in manayunk tonight, lightening, thunder, and absolutely torrential rain. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is what happens when heat and humidity reach the breaking point. And most of you saw it and heard it tonight. This is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. It went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. The rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. Tonights storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. While Atlantic City electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. Del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. Pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. Meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tristate a
Crisis is alive in our backyard. This is just the tip of the iceberg. What could happen next . And the cable man criminal. A new clue tonight. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org boy, look at this scene, lightning lighting up the night sky as powerful storms pushed across the area tonight. That included a moment caught on camera, just missing the capital, apparently hitting the dome of the library of congress. No damage, but it is a different story for other parts of the area where trees have toppled, power has been knocked out, and tomorrow afternoon we could have another round of severe weather. For the latest, lets turn to steve rudin. Tracking the storms in the belfort furniture weather center, and the good news is the worst of it is over for the time being. The stormscan, the little white line on the bottom of the radar are all lightning hits as we moved through the afternoon hours. As we show you the flat view, showers across central Montgomery County.
Enough to make your ride to work and school a slippery one. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, action News Reporter, dann cuellar is live along the cue kill expressway where things could be slow going tomorrow morning. But we will begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee tracking the system bringing the snow our way hi there brian and shirleen. We are tracking that clipper system off to the west. Looking at Storm Tracker six live double scan radar 3d the the light system starting to move out across the upper midwest and continues to work through ohio valley and this will move from the west to east direction, a affecting our region as early a as tomorrow morning. So, in advance and in anticipation of the snow showers that we are tracking the National Weather service issued a Winter Weather advisory from philadelphia a 95 corridor areas to the south and east, new castle will, kent counties there in delaware and it has been expanded todd include berks and lehigh counties as well. We are
Monday night, the big story on action news tonight is the approach of an Alberta Clipper that will put some snow on the ground. Action a News Reporter dann cuellar is standing by live along the schuylkill expressway, but first lets get very latest information from meteorologist cecily tynan, and double scan radar, cecily what is the story. Jim, if we get more than a tenth of an inch of snow this is biggest storm so far this season in philadelphia a we will get more than that. Storm tracker six live double scan showing the system. It is known as an Alberta Clipper because it originate in alberta, canada. Clipping along very quickly. It is near chicago. This will be dipping down to our south as we head through the day tomorrow. This will bring us light snowfall amounts, with National Weather service issued a Winter Weather advisory for the bulk of our viewing area starting at 5 00 in the morning until 4 00 in the afternoon for potential for that light snow. The big problem is the tempera