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
Even colder outside. You definitely need that heavy wint winter coat today. Temperatures are tumbling all throughout the day. We have issued a first alert for the arctic air and strong winds whipping through tomorrow morning. Glenn hurricane schwartz is live at the philadelphia premium outlets. Definitely a day to be bundled up. Reporter yeah. Our bodies are not used to this cold. This is just the beginning of the cold spell. We have a lot of wind out there. A little bit of sunshine at times. That wind is really a factor today. Thats one of the reasons we have a first alert out for the entire area for the day today into tonight and into 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. The first hard freeze of the season. Here is the current feels like temperature. We are up near pots town. It is 24 here but it really feels colder than that. Allentown 21, philly, 30. These numbers will get lower as we go through the day. It is not going to warm up. It is going to do the opposite. By 9 00 tonight only 19 degrees.
Convention. Well get back to all of todays dnc developments coming up in just a moment. Before we go any further, we do have to turn to a Weather Threat that could impact our entire area. Severe storms moving in, and they will be with us through the evening. Lets talk to First Alert Weather Center and meteorologist sheena par convenient tracking the storms for us. Yeah, jim, a couple of severe thunderstorms through parts of the Lehigh Valley. If you look at the radar, most are going through the Lehigh Valley and parts of burks county and thats where you see the yellow shaded area, and thats a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. Well zoom in right now with one thunderstorm into lower parts of Montgomery County and burks count knee the Lehigh Valley into the poconos, thats a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 4 45. A lot of lightning and heavy rain. Could see winds near 60 Miles Per Hour. Heavy downpours could lead to localized flooding and the possibility for some hail. Now, as far as lightning
Hours of overnight storms really impacted the area. First though breaking news in Cumberland County. Officials have declared a state of emergency because of flooding. Rescue crews began evacuating residents late last night. Several roads remain flooded and impassable. Nate rogers joins us live with more. As you can see were at bragg and rowen. These are closed off because of the flooding many were going to show you how even though the rain has stopped theres still two vehicles and a limousine deep into the water and looking downtown near the Veterans Memorialnd also the area that leads into festival park. The ententire ubmerged. And throughout the city by 7 00 this morning. A city spokesperson say they have received 78 calls for service. More than 160 emergency units have responded. We spoke to a nearby Business Owner that described the conditions when he got to work this morning. Back of the shop b four foot of the road. Inside the building was 6 inches of water. My only concern was p
Today will be mostly cloudy and cooler with highs in the however, our west va. Counties and counties boarding west va. Will see scattered light snow showers. The wind will be a huge factor. We could have gusts over 50 mph, especially in our highest elevations west of the blue ridge parkway. The saturated ground along with the high wind fall. Friday will start windy. The wind will gradually weaken through friday evening. Temperatures will top out in the lower 40s. Saturday will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 40s. Sunday will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s. Monday looks partly to mostly cloudy with a few isolated showers possible. Temperatures tuesday will be partly cloudy and breezy with highs in the middle 50s. Time now for your timesaver traffic report. Virginia is under a state of emergency this morning. Cleanup will pick up this morning across the commonwealth. And here in our area. Governor Terry Mcauliffe will tour some of the hardest hit areas