The Lehigh Valley. 30 degrees. Delaware, that sun will be warm up to warm temperatures into the 40s. Warming starts at 8 00, at 8 00, 28 degrees, up 10 degrees by 11 00 this morning. On target for afternoon temperatures. Upper 30s for the Lehigh Valley but 40s for jersey shore and delaware and philadelphia and the suburbs as well. Ill break these forecasts down hour by hour to show you how quickly the temperatures will climb and back in a minute. First, Jessica Boyington has the first alert traffic. In hammonton, weve been watching an accident since we went on the air at 4 00 a. M. Eastbound, route 54. An overturned vehicle earlier, and lanes shut down. Not all lanes, some getting by but really slow. Weve seen some stoppages there. Red by the scene there as well. Watching route 202 in the cameras. For the most part, we look good. From this point at 29, if youre heading into the schuylkill, just a sevenminute trip, speaking of the schuylkill, following earlier closures back to normal. 1
7 19 on these last couple of hours every autumn. So, the temperatures are in the 20s, just about everywhere. Some went chills in the teens this morning. And were going get to high of only about 43 degrees with mostly sunny skies, indeed chilly afternoon, and your sunset time is 4 39. And right after sunset, bob kelly, you are headed out to enjoy those christmas light on the fox 29 news. You know it, very Kelly Christmas tonight. Were going to mayfair northeast philadelphia, ill show you the spot next time around. Ticktock 501, actually, still closed here on the eastbound schuylkill expressway. This part of the overnight construction, eastbound, closed at the vine, so you can use either 30th street around the station, or cross town on the vine expressway. Here is a live look at the hot mess we had yesterday on 95. This is that Construction Zone, right up near 413 in bristol, all of the lanes are open. No signs of any crane mishaps this morning. So thats good news. But a left over from y
Have accuweather and traffic. Reporter get the mittens and arves out yet again. Reporter its colder this hopefully you paid attention to the forecast and not surprised by the cold air that moved in overnight. Satellite and radar unlike yesterday well extort off with with well start off with beautiful sunshine. Temperatures have dropped colder than yesterday morning. 31 in philadelphia. Allentown, 30. Only 27 in reading and lancaster. 28 in millville. 25 degrees right now in atlantic city. A little bit of a factor with the windchill, as well. It feels cold this morning. Even the dog doesnt want to go out 7 00 a. M. It will be below freezingnd 31 degrees. Lunchtime, 39 despite beautiful sunshine. 3 00 p. M. , 42 degrees. 5 00 p. M. , 4 7 00 p. M. , dipping down to the upper 30s 37. Well be clouding up in the overnight hours. Today is a dry and pleasant day for this first day of winter. Here the headlines that were tracking today. A cold starttures 20 degrees colder than yesterday morning
Good day everybody, it is thursday, december the 21st, 2017. The winter solsus. It arrives. I lover saying that word, solsus, sounds like something that needs to be lanced, sue, my solsus. Oh, my solsus is rooting getting a little worse, it is really angry. Anyway, we haves got seven out of ten today as we begin today. Yes, the winter solsus is still a few hours away, so, technically, it is still autumn. But 11 28 a. M. This morning when it happens. So we have the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Temperatures feel like theyre in the teens and 20s this morning. So make sure youre bundle up just like bus stop buddy. And as the kids are counting down the last couple every days of school. 31 degrees is our current temperature, much chillier than it was yesterday at this time. And it feels even colder, feels like 36 or 26, feels like 26 out there. Sunrise time 7 19. That very late sunrise with that very short daylight hour today. And temperatures are in the 20s, most everywhe
Are without water at this hour. Crews you can see them working behind me, they are trying to fix that main. This is Rittenhouse Square near 18th and locust the main broke around 10 00 a. M. This is the second water main break in this area. The first one happened just yesterday about 12 feet weigh from where theyre working right now. Now the main was already scheduled for a full replacement in the coming year we learned. City Officials Say the age of the main could be a factor of it breaking but they say water main breaks are typical this time of year. Were in our winter season. We do see an increase in water main breaks this time of year. When the water temperature drops below a certain point we do see water mains break more frequently. There could be contributing factors not just the age of the main something related to the water temperature possibly. Reporter thats a new pipe right there that theyre hoping to put down under the ground. Now, city Officials Say that theyre hoping to tu