Lauren, thanks very much. With that unseasonable warmth, many people decided to spend Christmas Day doing some springlike activities. Eyewitness News Reporter rahel solomon is live in center city where many were out and about enjoying this pleasant weather, rahel. I got to tell you how warm it was today. We saw folks wearing tshirts, shorts and a lot of children out enjoying those new toys. The christmastime, in philadelphia. Joggers in shorts and ts, children breaking out their new toys, inching to get out of the house to enjoy the warmth . It is like can this really be december. Reporter yeah, we were shocked too. Reminded me of income florida and Walking Around looking at the the lights in our shorts, you know, and it is unreal. The it is unreal. So beautiful. It is great, yes, it is great. Even though we are going to florida in a few days it is so nice. Reporter but with weather like this who needs florida. Since friday reached highs of 60s definitely warm enough to flip a top down
That is not bad for day after christmas. No, feels good. We can still take this cool down. Really next few days temperatures will be well a above average and tomorrow a approaching record highs. The lets talk about today. Live look at storm scan three. Just some cloud, steady rain has diminish. We may run into a spotty shower through the morning and afternoon but both days should stay dry, gray overcast day and that so far so good as far as fog goes. A a lot of fog has dissipated. They dropped the fog advisory so visibility looking better this morning as the wind is starting to kick up. Temperatures right the now in the upper 50s. Thinks our daytime High Temperature right the now, we will drop a few degrees pushing through the morning and in the afternoon. The reason is that northerly wind bringing in the colder air. Fifty in quakertown. Fifty in doylestown. There is that breeze out of the north north east at 16 miles ab hour in philadelphia, nine in allentown and we will push in that
Down storm scan3 showing us the rain moving offshore after we had that impressive swath of precipitation move through earlier this evening. Some heavy rain somebody thunderstorm activity but now all is quiet across much of the area. But some impressive rainfall totals well over an inch and a half of rainfall in hammonton. From that event in our Neighbor Network picked up close to half an inch in wilmington, delaware. Close to an inch there in salem. But we wont pick up much more rainfall just chance of a spotty shower for the rest of the overnight period but temperatures are extremely mild. 62 degrees in philadelphia after a record tieing High Temperature of 68 today. 60 down the shore and were in the low 50s extremely mild in the poconos but temperatures are highhighs tomorrow will be coolr than our current temperatures right now. So ill talk about were to expect fort rest your Christmas Holiday coming up in just a few. All right, lauren see you then, thank you. The rain didnt stop pe
Now, hopefully santa had a chance to make his rounds, last check somewhere over the pacific ocean, wrapping it up, will get nice long nap we hope. If you plan to travel, folks, you are going to be running out into some fog. Dense fog advisory, take a look, those ceilings dropping in low here on skycam 3, to the point you cannot even make out liberty can be liberty place, temperatures mild, 63 degrees currently, modest breeze, you dont want to breeze if you want the fog to form. Definitely lot of moisture, 93 humidity after all. So not the best hair day perhaps. But we are certainly feeling the warmth out there. Storm scan3, take a look, pretty quiet. In terms of fog, it is always difficult to find fog on a saturday light, because it is solo to the grounds. But it is out there. We definitely have some higher clouds, as well, in terms of the fog. Generally it is most of the region thats included in the dense fog advisory, it lasts until 10 00 this morning, about the time we expect it to
As we surged above normal temperatures today many people spent the holiday morning enjoying the outdoors. Eyewitness News Reporter rahel solomon is live in center city where she caught up with many who were pretending it was spring, rahel. Reporter that is right, we didnt see a lot of traffic outside on those roads but we did see foot traffic. People walking their dogs, jogging and a lot of people, and i do mean a lot of people looking at lunch out doors. When the temperatures go up in late december, the the crowds apparently, come out. Beautiful, amazing. We love it. Absolutely. On a very warm Christmas Day, friday, outdoor seating at Rittenhouse Park restaurant was a hot commodity. I will be eating outside, this restaurant, we have a big party, so i think we will be inside. Reporter parks general manager says the restaurant is usually busy around the holiday but even by this standard, this is a surprise. Did i condoner seats outside, absolutely not. This is a gift in so many ways, bu