The region with dewpoints above the 70degree mark and that is the threshold for oppressive air. So especially as the sun starts to break through the clouds a little bit later, it is going to feel very oppressive and its one of those days where you want to plan a lot of shady breaks maybe some ac breaks and keep those cool drinks handy especially if you have to work or play outside. 78 degrees by 8 oclock, 89 is your high at 3 oclock and there is the chance of some additional showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Theyll be spotty but they could produce drenching downpours. Matt pelman when does this humid pattern gender ill have answers in the accuweather 7day. Soon would be fine with most of us i think. Good morning david. Youll get to work pretty soon this morning. Its not taking an awfully long time, at least not on the schuylkill expressway right now. But of course delays will form over the next half hour or so. This is the schuylkill right at the vine street expressway. Everyth
Thunder especially south jersey and delaware. Most of you will be dry, though. 75 degrees right now in philadelphia, warm certainly. 68 in allentown, 71 in trenton and low 70s in millville. Mid 70s down along the coast. I got to show you dewpoints because the humidity which started to come up yesterday is even worse this morning. Weve got some dewpoints up over 70 in some spots. And that is oppressive humidity and of course it will feel worse as the sun gets up over the horizon and temperatures are going up today, too. 87 by noon. 3 oclock is your high today 92 degrees and 87 by 6 00 but you can probably add about three, four, maybe 5 degrees to the temperature at any given moment through the day to get the heat index value how it actually feels out there. A little worse on the heat and humidity tomorrow, matt pelman and then were going to go for a heat wave on thursday. Details coming up in that seven day. We just keep adding those degrees. I know. But on the other end of the spectrum
Are concerned that this fire may spread even more on this block. The action cam is also headed to the scene to give us pictures from the ground as firefighters battle this blaze in camden. Good morning to you. Lets find out whats going to happen with your accuweather. Dave murphy has that and matt pelman is filling in for karen. Hes got traffic. Good morning. Well, theres a little sweep of clouds over parts of the region but it does look like were going to get some fairly bright sunshine in quickly. Take a look at satellite. Cloud cover high and thin enough where a lot of it will probably evaporate and i think were going to get a decent amount of sunshine in for most of the day. 76 degrees right now in philadelphia. 61 in allentown. 62 in reading. Winds starting to turn a little bit more out of the west but across those southern portions of the region where you see that yellow mixing in, its still a little bit on the humid side. Northern and western suburbs are beginning to improve. Yo
Pushing closer to belmawr and surf city. Cape may is beginning to dry out. Atlantic city a few light sprinkles and obviously all this improving. We have seen a dropping of the Flash Flood Warning that was in play around philadelphia and trenton. Waters on local creeks and streams are receding. Cape may county has this in effect for probably another halfhour because of the heavy rain that has just recently pushed away from you. Temperatures are warm, 77 degrees in philadelphia. 74 in millville. Better in allentown, 69 degrees there. The notice how the winds are turning out northwest up in the northern and western suburbs. That has dropped the humidity level. 60 is the dewpoint. That northwest is something well all feel as we go through the morning. 7 degrees by 6. 76 by 8 00 a. M. Partly sunny overall, high of 88 probably around 3 00 p. M. Matt pellman the weekend call is coming up. Storms were not too bad at my house, unless i was really sound asleep. There were bad in some areas, we h
Reporter if you are trapped in a car and the wires are around you, you never try to get out of the car unless firefighters help you out. These are storms pushing through Burlington County and ocean county. If youre down in cape may and Atlantic City, a lot of thunderstorms clearing the coast right now youre no doubt hearing the thunder, but it is moving away from you. Over the the next halfhour or so, you should be out of lightnings danger. 322 Lightning Strikes in the southern areas not so much in Burlington County. The rest of the area is drying out. But we have a residual problem with foogd from the heavy down flooding from the heavy downpours. In southern bucks county, and mercer county, the water is receding. Down in cape may it could last another hour or so, because of the proximity of the rain thats just clearing the coast. 70 in allentown. 4 in millville. As you step out its going to be humid with dewpoints in the 70s. Dry air is starting to come in from the northwest. You can