Thats just the first of many pockets that will come. As for your temperatures, at 69 in philadelphia. 60 in wilmington. Atlantic city at 70. Temperatures not going to warm much at all today. Talk more about neighborhood conditions. Right now, talk about traffic with Jessica Boyington. Watching 95 right now. Construction project. Its taking out some lanes on 95. Just around the betsy ross bridge. Single file traffic moving through here. Police activity blocking off left hand or right hand shoulder lanes there. Again, southbound side. Thats moving up towards the center city area. With the construction project in place in one lane seeing a little bit of delay. Pa turnpike looks better than that. Not dealing with Construction Projects here. 22 minutes on esh siastbound si mass transit looks good. New Jersey Transit and patco all on or close to schedule. Vai and tracey. Jessica, Hurricane Irma has begun its march through the caribbean islands. Monster storm made first land fall early this m
And storm surge, 127 Miles Per Hour wind gusts by sunday morning. So the latest track has shifted a little farther to the west. That means irma will likely be hitting southern florida by saturday afternoon and sunday afternoon as a category four hurricane, the latest track bring its up the center of the peninsula. That means the entire peninsula of florida will get hit by Hurricane Force winds and not making a second landfall but decreasing to a category one as it pushes north of jacksonville. The take away from irmas Impact Likely the worst damage since hurricane andrew in 1992, could be worse than that. Storm surge making places uninhabitable for months. And running out of time to evacuate. More coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Meanwhile Hurricane Irma has cut a path of destruction through the caribbean leaving as we mentioned at least ten people dead and thousands homeless. Tonight its headed straight for florida and mandatory evacuation orders are in effect for the coast
Important issues is that its not going to encounter any land hases at all. It will continue to feed off of the nice, warm temperatures and continue to work its way up the Atlantic Basin or through the Atlantic Basin, up into florida. So right now, we have this making landfall as a category 4, but things can change. So, again, well be tracking that for you. Locally, however, we do have an area of High Pressure sit right over the piedmont, keeping everything really nas for tice next couple of days. Lets zoom on in, a few clouds north and west of philadelphia. You can see some bright whites north of Lehigh Valley and mt. Pocono, but that isnt going to be an issue for today. Your neighborhood bus stop forecast, lots of sunshine, no excuses, head out to school. At least we have sunshine for the weekend. Heres pam with traffic. Good morning, biwell start things off on route 202. Im not seeing any problems as far as accidents or delays out there. Take a look at the drive times right now. 76,
Irma, a category 4. And katia, a category 1. It is very active in the gulf and the atlantic basin. We said that earlier this year in june that we were expecting a very active season and Mother Nature did not let us down at all. Currently, we have really nice conditions. A couple of clouds, thats it. And current temperatures, 58 degrees. Coming up in just a bit, well talk about what to expect for the rest of today and through the entire weekend. Well, we have a report of an accident that i want to get you up to speed with. This is in Warrington Township at limekiln park. 476 at baltimore pike, more cars on the roadway, but still not a lot of problems to speak of as of right now. 76, 95, 467, average speeds in the 60, everything is in the green. Pretty easy going out there. Now to breaking news in mexico. Overnight, a deadly magnitude 8. 2 earthquake struck off the coast near the city of chipas. People more than 600 miles away could feel the quake. Residents immediately fled buildings, m
Night. The videos show the powerful winds and driving rain hitting resort properties along the western side of the island. The high storm surge expected to cause major flooding. New photos out of barbuda. It blasted the island nation killing at least three people there. You can see shattered debris and buildings trashed. France and the netherlands split control. They said the storm killed four people on their side of the island and one reported on the dutch side. The governor says federal help is on the way for residents there. Irma damaged many of the boats. One sailboat worker said he had a boat anchored in the harbor which is now nowhere to be found. He says he and fellow residents were fortunate. We lit candles, played games. They pounded with top wins of 150 Miles Per Hour for more than four hours. Fire and police stations collapse in the main hospital and sustained pretty heavy damage. This is a live look as it tracks irma. They say the hurricane weakened a little bit to a catego