And the National Weather service has put up a heat warning that kicks in at noon and goes until 6 oclock this afternoon in all of the central counties, urban centers in particular are of big concern. Heat index will make it feel like 100 degrees and this will be a day when you want to keep all those heat tips in mind. Theres also a code orange ozone action day declared. This actually should say today and this is for sensitive groups across most of the region. Same thing as yesterday in new jersey its seniors young kids and people who suffer from heart or respiratory ailments. Limit your outdoor exposure again especially between those hours of noon and 6 00 when the ground level ozone is at its worst. The rest can help out by not filling up the car during those hours. Lot of clear skies out there right now. Some patchy clouds filtering in once again today, much the way they did its also a warm start. 79 degrees, almost at 80 degrees in philadelphia right now. 71 in millville, 70 in alle
Overnight construction. The good news at this hour its in the process of clearing. Everything reopened along 95 northbound between Bridge Street and the cottman avenue interchange. Were getting reports of a crash right behind the Barnes Foundation at 20th and callowhill much thats a good intersection to avoid at this point and not so far away dont forget that theyre in from the ramp from Spring Garden street to the westbound schuylkill is closed for about the next week. That of course because of construction but all the overnight work on 76, the schuylkill expressway has cleared out. Erin is going to tell us more about this awful accident in northeast philadelphia involving a person that was struck by a train. Medical chopper was on the scene and early this morning grant avenue and welsh road are closed basically between krewstown road and bustleton avenue. If i were you i would stay on 63 red lion road to get around that. Also a crash by the Montgomery Church of pennsylvania along mor
To limit your outdoor exposure and exertion again between the hours of noon and 6 00. Thats when the ground level ozone is at its worst. Satellite shows you theres not a lost clouds early so sunglasses all around along with rap the ac in the car the bus and all of that. There will be patchy clouds filtering in as the day goes on. Slight chance of a popup sprinkle in a couple spots but mainly dry. 79 degrees right now in philadelphia, 69 in allentown 73 in wildwood and your dewpoints are up over 70 dropping off a little bit in philadelphia over the last half hour or so but a lot of spots in the upper 60s, low to mid 70s and that is oppressive humidity in most places. Today we are going for a hot afternoon. 89 degrees by noon. 93 by 3 oclock and your high today is going to be 94 degrees slotting right in there around 3 30 or 4 oclock. Back down to 89 by 6 oclock but again through the afternoon the heat and humidity making it feel like its in the upper 90s up to about 100 degrees. Things
And matt pelman is in for karen rogers much good morning. The first clue that things are different today come in the form of the heat warning that the National Weather service has posted. This kicks in at noon today and goes until 6 oclock tonight and it covers all the Central Counties basically all the counties coming up against the main portion of the delaware river. The heat index values could make it feel as hot as 100 degrees for several hours this afternoon. Temperatures will be getting up into the mid 90s. We also have poor air quality in place and this time its not just new jersey like yesterday but pennsylvania and delaware also included. A code orange action day means Sensitive Groups Senior Citizens kids and people who suffer from heart and lung ailments including asthma should limit Outdoor Activity and exertion especially between the hours of noon and 6 00 when the ground level ozone is at its work. A lack of significant cloud cover. We could see the development of patchy
So out of fashion now. Oh, boy, now, you wouldnt catch me in that thing. My favorite thing is still model in that little guy in that ridiculous jacket. He is not eating any pizza. I just cant do it. I will not attempt it. Well, how about we turn the page on that and move on. We are tracking wet weather out there this was anticipated this mornings commute was likely to be at least impact by the rain and sure enough we have had rain falling steadily at lee light to moderate levels here across the region as a whole for last few hours. Notice it is trying to move east and things trying to clear out as we go toward these western most suburbs, however, again, you are still going to have the spray from the vehicles, wet red ways to contend with obviously and even though rain is more scattered showers, as morning progresses, your travel is already impacted. So it will be generally slow. That is not something you will recover from that quickly. My suggestion of course now that the sun comes up