Of course many people like to celebrate the occasion by heading to the jersey shore. No matter where you go or how you celebrate, Mother Nature is cooperating this weekend. Meteorologist karen rogers joins us outside with a look at accuweather. Hi, karen. Reporter today is an aplus forecast with a lot of the bs. Its bright, beautiful and breezy. The storms are long gone from yesterday. The breeze is beautiful. The dewpoints are down. Yesterday we had dewpoints in the 70s it was oppressively humid. For the today we dropped into the 50s, its nice and comfortable not just today, but tomorrow, as well. 56 in the poconos, 65 in reading, allentown, 70 currently in philadelphia. 67 in trenton. 68 this millville. 73 down in cape may. Heres what to expect today. Its mostly sunny and less humid. We have a nice warm high of 84. Youll get a breeze that will feel good at times 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. So quite breezy. Things change by the 4th of july. Well have details in the exclusive accuweather
Things will be warming up a little bit starting tomorrow. 64 degrees with the 12mile an hour breeze out of the north. 48 percent relative humidity and 5 32 is your sunrise time. It is flag day to day. It will be just about perfect. We have a high of 80. Sunset time 8 31. That takes care of your tuesday, minute after 5 00 oclock, bob kelly has another take off so we will check traffic for you and this time of the day it is pretty much all about the construction. This is, a situation on ben franklin bridge, first of all, smooth sailing if you went in or out of new jersey this morning. Construction is on route 202 southbound between route 401 and route 30. Blocking the left lane right there, bright lights are on and a quick remind ber the Saint Anthonys italian festival in wilmington. Largest in the country. It is happening all week long through sunday. Lots of traffic delays on church and ninth street your parking at the waterfront and shuttle bus you to the festival later today. Chris a
Big story is traffic. A septa bus crash that happened on the schuylkill expressway. The bus reared ended one car and then they all started slamming into each other, sue. So, as a result, weve got, all lanes of the schuylkill everybody just getting by on the shoulder here. You can see the bus, we see the turn signal lit on the bus. Maybe they were trying to change lanes or something, smashed it into this truck which then smashed the cara begins the median strip. So, we have a huge backup, on the schuylkill expressway, eastbound as a result. Gaper delay on the westbound side as folks slow down to see what is going on. Tow truck is fast. That is true. Other good parties we have no reports of any injuries, believe it or not, even in that maroon car. Eight cars involved. Right. And one of the mini buses, too. Yeah. So this is a while before they clear this up near girard avenue on the eastbound side where the accident is, heading into the city this morning. So that will slow you down, and f
10 00 a. M. Betsy ross will show up. Sure, and they will raise the flag. There are more events coming up for flag day right here in olde city, and happily weather is cooperating. So many have asked about our intern, we will keep you updated every morning patients carter is her name and she was wounded in orlando. She was at that pulse nightclub when shooter started firing shots and she was hit in the leg. Her family tells us she underwent surgery and she is in stable condition. Of course, we are praying for her speedy recovery. More on her, and, two friend that she was with, last night and sunday. So yesterday you promised a ten. You came through. Can you give us another. I will, only because you you asked. Ill have another. Youll have another on this flag day. 2016 is a ten out of ten. Weather is just as beautiful. Bus stop buddy excited about flag day as well. We are off to a nice start with temperatures in the 60s mostly this morning. The beautiful sunrise. Prettiest ones are ones w
Happening right now a party on the parkway but as Mother Nature playing the role of party pooper . For tens of thousands of people who came out to see the fireworks g evening to you. And happy fourth of july. Im lucy noland. Iain has the night off. Its been rain off and on all evening. Whats on tap . Lets get right to meteorologist dave warren. Dave n radar is lit. More rain coming in. That rain will get heavier here overnight tonight. Flash flood tag problem. Flash flood watch in effect between 3 00 and 8 00 oclock tonight overnight tonight. Impacting your morning rush. Rain with a few spots of yellow indicating thats getting to be moderate or heavy rain this moved out of delaware county. Theres the blue route, theres 95 pushing in through the city here. Its slowly moving not going to clear out quickly. Its slowly pushing its way through. Well see a little bit of a break before this moves out and heavier rain moves in overnight tonight. But heaviest rain now is right through philadelp