Delaware. Locally heavy rainfall could cause localized flooding. We will track all this for you. Aside from that we are talking about excessive heat. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is standing by with a look at that. That excessive heat warning has been canceled as the line of thunderstorms has brought the rain to knock down the temperatures and knock some of the humidity out of the air, too. It was really warm and humid early in the day and then just became hotter and more humid and we hit 87 degrees at noontime 88 degrees at 1 00 and there we go. 90 degrees at 2 00 just before the storms hit because it was already down to 74 in reading and 79 in allentown when they got the storms earlier. By 5 00 its now down to 77 in philadelphia but its back up to 82 in reading and allentown. The sun coming back out, warming things up again. The feelslike temperature is back up into the upper 80s there. Down to 78 in philadelphia, 75 in wilmington, delaware. That feelslike temperature
85 degrees by 11 00 and near 90 degrees at lunch time with the potential for more storms developing later today. A look at the hourbyhour futurecast when i come back in ten minutes with more on where the storms are more likely to develop. Lets check in with Jessica Boyington. Jessica . Were looking at 295 in runnemede, new jersey around the black horse pike. Everything moving along, even through the work zone where we are losing out that lefthand shoulder. Part of the righthand lane as well. All vehicles moving. The on ramps are moving there as well. The drive time still doing okay despite damp conditions. Southbound from 38 up towards the black horse pike is still about a 13minute drive time. If youre heading out the door on the schuylkill actively raining right here. Slippery spots all up and down the schuylkill. The drive times relatively unaffected so far. A 13minute trip at the most if youre headed eastbound from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway for the morning
From the west into places like Chester County, Delaware County and philadelphia but farther to the west some heavier rain and down to the south moving away from baltimore, a strong thunderstorm and that is triggering thunderstorm warnings highlighted in orange across New Castle County delaware, kent county delaware and then well see whether or not theyre extended later into south jersey. A closer look on that system and it is headed towards places like middletown and townsend between now and about a quarter after the hour. Odessa about 8 17 and clayton 6 18. These only take about 15 minutes for the worst of it to pass you but along the way youre going get lots of lightning heavy downpours and perhaps that gusty winds ahead of the rain so a good idea to be to take cover indoors as they pass or at the very least stay inside your car because of the frequent lightning that were seeing. Dont what happened you in a car under a big tree that might fall down, though. As we take a look at tempe
Pottstown, were in the 50s. Our city planner shows as we go into the rest of today, we will see temperatures in the high 60s by 7 00 a. M. By 10 00 a. M. , 76 degrees. By 1 00 p. M. , 82. Ill have a closer look at your shore forecast. Thats coming up in just a bit. The birds are back at the lim linc tonight for their preseason match against the ravens. Is thec starting qb, starting running back beginning to take the field . Jesse gary is live at the melrose diner in south philly with more on that and reaction from the fans about chip kellys playbook. Tell us about it, jesse. Reporter rosemary, lots of offseason changes and still the people we talked to inside the melrose diner say they are still on board with the 2015 installment of the chip kelly experiment. A week ago, the coach sat his starter in favor of mark sanchez running the show. The birds ran over, around and through the colts. This season sees multiple changes in the defensive secondary and the offense with the signing of f
Overnight and now weve got some showers and even a couple of thunderstorms and storm tracker6 live double scan right now shows you some of this action. In the northern and western suburbs all it is is some showers and it is pushing off to the north and east. So it looks like allentown could get hit by a little bit of that but mostly its going to be to the north and west of allentown. Big issue farther south, of course, is down around dover, delaware and these showers and thunderstorms now as expected crossing the delaware bay, salem county, Cumberland County picking up some of these lightning strikes and ill just give you the movement here as this is also pushing up toward the north and east and it looks like wilmington delaware might get caught with some of this and philadelphia after that and that is what were looking at on radar this morning. As we take a look at temperatures were starting out okay. 70 degrees in philadelphia. 66 in allentown. 72 in cape may. Rolling through the day