Dont see that happen as much since they put up those big signs. Lets take a look at satellite. We have cloud cover across parts of the region. Philadelphia definitely seeing some of that right now. The farther north you go the less clouds and storm tracker6 down south does still show showers that are circulating through central delaware pushing away from smyrna and it looks like some of that might cross the delaware bay into parts of salem and maybe cumberland counties but it doesnt lyle its going to last all that much longer and this is fairly light. Slow moves. They could be with you for awhile where they manage to hit. 70 philadelphia, 71 trenton, 71 in wilmington. Feeling really comfortable in the city. Dewpoints show you we have pretty low newspapers for our dewpoint scale in philadelphia. A lot of 59s. Thats below the threshold for slightly humid air. But as you go down towards millville its more humid and down along the delaware bay and the ocean front it stays that way. 73 in p
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And you can actually see a little bit of a bowing out. What this is is bow echo. It means theres rushing winds moving in behind that system so that line thats moving just south of pottstown likely does have some damaging winds and we could flip this over and we can show you just how intense the rain is as well. The rainfall rate right now right around pottstown right across 422, more than 3. 5inches of rain an hour so these are blinding downpours. Be very careful. We likely will see some flash flooding with this. As we extend further down to the south also that line moving through honey brook heading towards west chester within the next 15 minutes. We have a severe thunderstorm watch posted until 9 oclock for our entire viewing area. That line likely hitting philadelphia around 6 00 moving off the coast between 8 00 and nine ooh. 9 00. These reminder with rain in the forecast get weather updates any time on your phone or tablet including realtime views from storm track sticks live. Sto
Legend and philanthropist jerry lewis but the big story on action news is final could down to the eclipse, first total Solar Eclipse visible in north america in 38 years. That is right, celestial event has a whole lot of people very excited, all across the country. So, folks every where are getting what they need while they can before the heavenly show begins. Lets look at the video posted on twitter. Traffic mess in organ but first lets go to adam joseph along pass of totality and very interesting, in missouri. Adam, good evening. Good evening, to you guys. Hey, atmosphere above is sunny way we want it. As more fear on the ground is electrified here, were in the festival called total eclipse of the arts and we have traveled 1400 miles to what he they called saint joes here for locals because it is a very rare celestial event here in the path of totality. Now if you have not witnessed totality in this spot in 214 years. Although it is a very small town about the size of wilmington, the
With very heavy bands of rain. Theyve already seen tornado warnings and it likely will continue to rain there through the middle of next week. And if you look at the buoy report you can see wind gusts 68 Miles Per Hour just off the coast of Corpus Christi. So, hurricanes come with a whole package of problems. Youve got flooding rains, the storm surge and really the rain will be the biggest problem. This storm once it makes landfall will basically stall. It will be a lumbering slow moving disaster so were looking at some areas that could get close to 30inches of rain in a period of several days. Thats about a years worth of rain. So, these are the latest facts on Hurricane Harvey. Category three landfall likely tonight on the verge of a cat four. Catastrophic flooding, Power Outages for days and that storm surge could be up to 12 feet. Ill have more details on the storm and also our local weather coming up in the seven day. Jim. Thank you cecily. Were going to go live to center city and