Wolf says hes prepared to sign one if necessary. Right now, Hurricane Joaquin is a powerful category 4 storm. We have live First Alert Team coverage tracking the two weather threats ahead, both joaquin and the storms that will hit first. Sheena parveen begins with the threat facing us right now. Sheena . Right now were looking at increasing rain and wind across the area. Right now weve seen rain increasing through the afternoon. We even have more offshore, some of this is locally heavy. Were looking at it moving into the philadelphia area, even through new jersey, areas north and west through the lehigh valley, locally heavy rain right now increasing overnight and into tomorrow. Look at all the rain down to our south. Its going to move onshore through the day tomorrow, which is going to continue to increase the flooding concerns, not just along the shore, but also inland. We have a first alert weather day out tomorrow and also saturday because we expect very high winds, we expect heavy
Rainfall, we issued a first alert for whats to come. Strong gusty wind and the rain will be intensifying as the day goes on. The heaviest for philadelphia i expect this afternoon but well see it start in delaware and south jersey and slowly move inland. It continues into the evening hours with that heavy rain and the strong wind coastal flooding and not just the atlantic coast. The Flood Warnings have been extended into the Delaware River right up the delaware into lower bucks county. And beach erosion with this storm system that is going to continue into late tonight and tomorrow. We could be looking at more flooding in the area. Right now the radar screen shows steady rain in philadelphia, the rain is coming up from the south through delaware and south jersey. You see some steady rainfall in lower Burlington County at the shore for Atlantic City and showers will turn heavier as the day goes on. The showers will produce 1 to 3 inches of rain during the day today. Along with the strong
Tomorrow. We have those heavy rains moving from south to north. We may get another band coming in later this evening with some really heavy rain, but then things may taper off a bit after that. Latest on the rain totals and also the latest on joaquin coming up in just a few minutes, but were also having meteorologist Brittney Shipp with more on whats going on. Thats right. We have a network through weather underground, so lets take a live look right now and show you how the rainfall totals are stacking up. They look like they are the heaviest amount of rain in the central and southern parts of delaware, so theres a closer look at some of the amounts you can see anywhere between two to three inches is generally the rains. We have some areas that are seeing closer to five inches in the southern parts of delaware, so this is a closer look at bay vista. This helps us pin point your neighborhood, showing exactly how much rain has fallen. 2. 23 inches in bay vista, well zoom up to cape may,
Closer to high tide, that happens typically around 1 00 a. M. , and once again by 2 00 p. M. On sunday. Were also watching for beach erosion and street flooding in the area. This is all due to a strong onshore flow, the wind direction causing all the problems here. Its moving in from the north and east. Wind gusts up to about 36 Miles Per Hour in Atlantic City and 35 Miles Per Hour in georgetown. Well continue to see these strong winds even as we head into tomorrow. Our radar shot shows at least gradually improving. We have a few scattered showers outside of burlington county. It starts to dry out as we head into the second half of your weekend. A closer look at the temperatures. By the time you wake up on sunday morning, still a cold start to your morning. Well see a return of temperatures in the 60s. Im tracking more changes, including Hurricane Joaquins track. Thats coming up in my full forecast. The coverage with Randy Gyllenhaal live in Atlantic City. Randy, you were there last ni
Do you see calm wind there . That makes for fog. Now we have 3mile visibility at philly international. Your sunrise time is 7 12. We will get sunshine today. Temperatures are chillier then yesterday as you walk out the door. Thirtys to the north of us, 40s to the south of us, 44 as we showed New Philadelphia right now. We will expect to get to a high of 65 degrees and that would tie the record for this date december 11th setback in 1971. Your sunset time his 36 00. Get out, enjoy the 65 degrees. You will not have a lot of daylight in which to do so bob kelly but it is friday. It is friday, im surrounded by the ladies here this morning. Oh, yeah. Nothing but hair spray and craziness. 5 01. Keith, our floor director is here as well. Live look at the blue route, north bound, right here near route one in the delaware interchange. We have got some players out here and were dealing with some fog as sue mentioned in some of our area like down the shore. The heres a live look at 47 ape 347 jus