With it come humidity that could trigger powerful storms later today. Meteorologist chris sowers is with us and were talking about later in the day. Reporter another storm dropped a tree on my front lawn. Cut down the trees. Reporter i wont have any more left. Lets get you outside, unfortunately this is going to be a situation where we see wind in the line of thunderstorm. Its going to be a quickhitting line maybe lasts halfhour or 40 minutes tops. There could be wind at 60 to 70 miles per hour. Another potent system is swinging through. As we look live down in cape may. Weve enjoyed falllike temperatures this week, very low humidity levels, highs in the 70s. Today that changes. The numbers crank into the upper 80s and low 90s. It will feel comfortable early on and awful during the Late Afternoon hours. Satellite and radar there is the system right there, it will pull the warm front through first and that will get the atmosphere sticky and the cold front swings through in the early aft
Through parts of the plain states. Lets go over now to dave murphy. Hes outside. He says this is going to be a great day, warm, sunny and karen rogers is taking a look at your traffic. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Suns up over the horizon and its cool and comfortable right now but getting warm later on. Take a look at satellite. There goes that pinwheeling area of low pressure pulling away from us off the coast. Next band of clouds still on the other side of pittsburgh and in between we are ready for lots of sun. We have an alert, though. The air quality index is not great today. We got a code orange ozone action day and that means those of you in Sensitive Groups, young kids Senior Citizens and people suffering from heart ailments and asthma want to limit your outdoor exposure and exertion especially between the hours of noon and 6 oclock and the rest of us can help out by not filling the cars during those hours. 59 degrees in philadelphia, 52 in allentown, 56 in wilmington.
Rogers with an eye to the sky. And matt pellman has traffic. Reporter good morning, we have a chance of Severe Weather in parts of the region. I want to show you Storm Tracker 6 live double scan, we can see how the rain is starting to move in from the west. Its hitting lang with light showers and wilmington as it rides up the i95 corridor, not in philadelphia just yet. Lets take a wider view. You can see the complex of storms that were following, some are strong to severe. As you look at this, much of this will miss philadelphia and go south and east of the region. Thats why the Storm Prediction Center has those areas under slight risk. Cape may county, cumberland, parts of atlantic and salem and delaware everywhere south of wilmington, youre dealing with a slight risk of Severe Weather with the storms. This will be the first half of the day. Second half of the day we see clouds and sunshine, 71 degrees in philadelphia. Were not mid 60s in the lehigh valley. 61 in poconos. 68234 trento
Mainly dry but down south where it says wilmington in parts of cumberland and salem counties you can see a little bit of a shower thats kind of falling apart at this point as it heads towards route 55. Thats the only rain weve got anywhere this morning. Satellite does show you some cloud cover out to the west and we are going see a mix of clouds and sun today. It will feel a bit more humid today than yesterday and eventually some additional showers and perhaps some thunderstorms could pop up later in there afternoon hours. 72 degrees is your current temperature in philadelphia. 72 in wilmington. 73 in allentown, 70 in trenton and as you take a look at dewpoints it is muggy out there. A dewpoint of 68 in philadelphia. Thats a little higher than yesterday and once you start seeing 70s on the map thats oppressive humidity. Weve got there in cape may and dover currently. As we roll through the day 71 degrees by 7 oclock. 79 by 10 oclock. You want to get that workout in. Its a little bit hu
Special victims unit. That number 7032284198. Live in arlington Lindsey Watts fox 5. For the second time less than a week, man shot to death in the middle of the day in far southeast. Dc police say a verbal altercation preceded the gunfire near east capitol street in bending road. Police swarmed that area. Fox 5 paul live at the scene. Reporter dc police have been extremely busy in the city since noon. We counted as many as five shootings in the District Of Columbia since that time period. One was a fatality here in the 4800 block of texas avenue southeast. According to a witness who gave a statement to police and spoke fox 5 off camera, this is what he says happened. He was smoking a cigarette in this alley behind the station when its a scuffle broke out. His knees firing at someone across bending road. He says that gunman was hit by the gunfire and killed here at the scene. Within an hour, a huge crowd gather here as the Shopping Center across the street. Watching from a distance, th