We have those stories and more straight ahead. We begin with another chance of rain as we head into the night. Im jessica dean. Im Nicole Brewer in for ukee washington. Meteorologist kate bilo is standing by with what we can expect in the next couple hours in terms of this rain. We kind of dodged the bullet the first time around the first line fizzled before it got to philadelphia. That means we didnt really cool down, the heat and humidity still in place and something for this next line of storms work with, you can see these storm are firing just west of our viewing area right now starting to creep into berks county an area that did get rain and strong thunderstorms, wind damage earlier. A second round on its way and this one is one to watch as well. With lightening just poisoned to move into western lancaster. A closer look. You can see nothing severe at this hour, but a few scattered localized downpours, lightening and even strong gusting winds. These could try to move through the m
Damage earlier. A second round on its way and this one is one to watch as well. With lightening just poisoned to move into western lancaster. A closer look. You can see nothing severe at this hour, but a few scattered localized downpours, lightening and even strong gusting winds. These could try to move through the majority of the area. If we pick up a storm, it will be likely be right around midnight. You could see this in the next hour or so, progressing further eastly. You may harry rumble of thunder or rain drops. After about 3 00 a. M. That should clear the coast. In the meantime before the storms arrive, its still very hot and humid outside. Still 87 degrees here in philadelphia. Due points remain in the mid 70s. Look what it feels like right now. 97 is how it feels if you step outside in the city right now. Little cooler where it rained earlier. Now its looking as though the heat wave may not be threw with us just yet. How many more days we could tack on to this heat wave coming
Service, vai. The shaking has ended, though. Usually what ware seeing is clearing skies. No sign of showers or thunderstorms this morning. You can leave the umbrella at home. It wouldnt be that kind of day. Scattered clouds in the suburbs, new jersey, sunshine there, too, 76 degrees right now. The clouds are already thinning out in the Lehigh Valley. Into the low 90s for delaware this afternoon, mostly sunny skies. Look at the 80s for the Lehigh Valley, new jersey and the suburbs. Nowhere near as hot feeling as it was yesterday over the last several days as the humidity will be dropping during the day. 91 degrees in philadelphia this afternoon. Just warm enough to continue the heat wave. No showers during the day today. There are some in our future. Ill take a look at when you can expect those when i come back. First, Jessica Boyington has an update in the first alert traffic center. Were watching the boulevard right now. These are our cameras around ridge avenue, now zoomed out. Gives
Ventral pennsylvania this, is all heading to the east. Most energy should pass to the west but it has potential to pass through the area with strong gusty thunderstorms. The National Weather service issued a thunderstorm watch until 11 00 tonight for most of our viewing area except for delaware and along the coast. Anything that moves through has the potential for damaging winds and hail. It will be a broken line of storms, not everyone will get them. The best chance to get the strongest storms is north and west of philadelphia and heavy rain and gusty winds with them. It should be weakening as it pushes to the south, behind the system there is not much relief from the heat and humidity. Im talk about that coming up. Be sure to follow our meteorologists on meteorologist and twitter for updates on potential storms. Use the same platforms to share your weather pictures and videos as well. Dont forget the power of stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, available at 6abc. Com is it weather
Push to the northeast at 45 Miles Per Hour. This is tracking very quickly and as it does, it has a major impact on the commute. Some areas its moving towards wood shop town and sprangsville town. And we are looking for heavy rain and could have rainfalling at 4 inches per hour. Pull over if you are driving. And the potential for vivid lightning and strong downpours and strong gusty winds and a low potential of hail and tornadoes. The reason why we have heat indexes in the triple digits, feels like 105 in philadelphia, that adds to the strength of the storms. Behind a cold front later tonight there is some relief but not all that major, ill talk more about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Well take minor. Yes. Cecily todays heat has officials taking extra safety precautions, chopper 6 hd spotted an ambulance and fire officials outside of a high rise building in voorhees, the building reportedly lost power at 8 00 a. M. And is in the dark at this hour. At the soft pretzel