Take a look at satellite, you can see how overnight cloud cover exited the region. Theres a sweep coming into washington, d. C. Well see that in the afternoon. 68 degrees in philadelphia. Nice on the terrace currently. 59 in allentown. Cool in the Lehigh Valley and 66 along the boardwalks. Today were going for a warm afternoon. Noon, 81. 3 00 p. M. , 83 thats your high by 6 00 p. M. 80, failure comfortable and partly sun skies overall. Were tweaking the forecast for tomorrow the 4th looks cloudier and theres a chance of showers sweeping through at times, the question can become can we dry out for fireworks tonight. Matt pellman ill run through that coming up in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. So many confess, but i know you have so many answers. Good morning david happy friday happy Independence Day weekend and happy drivers across the board this morning. As we look live at i95 no southbound delay at the work zone. Nice light volume, schuylkill expressway is in the clear,
Numbers are going its going to be warm, high of 83 at 3 00 p. M. Maybe a little bit humid but not too bad no worse than partly sunny skies for the most of the day. Fourth of july will be cloudy and showers around, hopefully clearing out or drying out in time for the fireworks. Ill have the latest on the future tracker 6 and the latest call for the entire weekend coming up from accuweather. Matt what are roads and rails looking like early on. Reporter lots of stuff going on, roads are looking good, because a lot of people have off work. Rails on a Holiday Schedule which means a saturday schedule. Route one close to highland avenue we have Police Activity and now theres a ambulance on the scene as well. This is northbound route 1 coming away from the pennsylvania turnpike. Stay to your left. Blocking the right lane, but not causing a huge delay because volume is light on this holiday friday morning. Well talk about the closures because of holiday festivities and issue down the shore, as
In the news a Philadelphia Police officer is off the job and facing charges for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, and a former firefighter that responded to the twin towers on 9 11 is new yorks newest lottery winner. But the big story on action news is the excitement building for the 4th of July Celebrations, from the shore to the city there is no shortage of parties and fireworks tomorrow. Preparations are well underway. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott with the latest from the ben franklin parkway. The setup is well underway here, the setup is here for the concert and people are ready to celebrate. Today the rivera family is out for a skate near the art museum and ben franklin parkway will be packed but like many they just find their spot and gaze upward. People for some reason thought there was nothing going on no pushing and no shoving everybody is getting along. Crews are out building the stage for the 4 and of july jam and there is still work to be done for the concert. Be
Offer on this long Holiday Weekend, including these folks that came from south africa for a taste of philadelphia freedom, we stopped at the liberty bell and liberty hall and go around the city to look at everything, and that includes the Liberty Block Party between market and chestnut being built as the Biggest Block Party of the summer begins at 1 00 in the afternoon and gives everybody a chance to sample the food scene and Live Entertainment and that serves to the phillies Live Entertainment, the philadelphia pops. In edition to the philly pops orchestra, we have the voices of the pops, singing the battle hymn of the republic and god bless americas all the patriotic favorites. It begins on independence mall, and bring your lawn chairs and blankets and soak in this wouldnterful 4th of july tradition. The phillies pops has a Wonderful Program and we are going to party and really going to stir peoples patriotic pride this evening. Sounds good, and a little tip to pass along if are you
Help pull up some of that moisture in the form of some clouds and showers so future tracker showing by 9 oclock we will have some showers around especially west of philadelphia and then we will have some occasional showers into the afternoon before things will be drying out by tomorrow night. Most of the fireworks displays should be rain free. So, this is what to expect for the fourth of july. Big turn around from today. Plenty of clouds. It will be cool for july, scattered showers and perhaps even a period of steady rain midday if that low pressure can pull up enough moisture but again, the good news is we dry out by tomorrow night and ive got a gorgeous sunday on the way. Ill talk about that including the shore and the poconos in the full accuweather forecast. Brian. All right, cecily, some good news in there. Thanks very much. The main event for a lot of folks this weekend will be the fourth of july jam on the ben franklin parkway. Today crews started setting up the fireworks as as