To david murphy and matt pellman in for karen. Reporter we have stars out and sun up over the horizon. There you see thunderstorms that did pop through last night and kind of split the difference in south jersey. Behind it High Pressure buildings in and lots of sunshine on the way. 74 degrees in philadelphia. 70 in wilmington. 65 in allentown. 75 in wildwood. If you get moving around this morning it might feel a tad humid but nothing like the last several days because the humidity is down. 75 degrees by 8 00 a. M. Less humid mainly clear a nice start to the day and nice finish if you dont mind slightly hot weather. Noon 86. The high is 90 at 3 00 p. M. Before we dip back to 87 by 6 00 p. M. Its going fob a nice night to head to the movies or phillies game, well cover that in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast and, of course, well have the weekend call coming up, too. What about the roads . Reporter a good start on the roads this morning were not sure how it will end but for no
This morning. So far so good along the schuylkill expressway by montgomery drive. Eastbound go the tail lights in toward center city. Does it look darker than normal . Overhead lights were out overnight. Now, the good news is thats becoming less of an issue as the minutes tick along and the sun starts to come up. Had overnight construction on the westbound turnpike approaching willow grove. Thats open on the pennsylvania turnpike. Into jersey on the turnpike connector, eastbound off the river bridge to 130 construction going for the next halfhour in the right lane. Mercer county they are working on 2935 between sloan avenue and route 1 taking out the left lane in both directions. Gloucester county you have another halfhour of work on the northbound side of 47 and 42 freeway blocking up to two lanes until 6 00 a. M. Its a better morning at the delaware memorial bridge, overnight extra construction there has wrapped up, speeds in the 50s. Closure of cedar road in edgemore road in wilming
In 68 in wilmington. 70 to 73 up and down the coast. Were down to 60 in philadelphia, it was just borderline for humid air. The numbers down the shore are beginning to drop. Everybody feeling improvement. As we go through the day noon, 86. The high today is that 90 at 3 00 p. M. Ment with the lower humidity bring along cool drinks if youre out and about today and bring along the sunscreen youre in good shiep. Shape. The weekend looking good and well have the call for the weekend coming up. Matt, what are the roads looking like . Reporter good morning, david, good morning, everybody roads are looking great on this friday morning. As i mentioned often during the summertime volume is lighter than normal. Thats holding true to form this morning. Construction crews are not on their weekend just yet here on the scutter falls bridge they are working southbound on i95. Other worker zones i95 through northeast philadelphia and center city have cleared out. So far so good on i95. Same on the sch
Wow, it feels wonderful out. Especially considering were in the midst of a heat wave. The poconos 49 degrees, temperaturewise its not all that bad. We dont have too much humidity to speak of. If you have a chance to get out early and enjoy the comfortable air. Yesterday, philadelphia, 90 degrees, we managed to hit that for only 15 minutes, out of a 24 hour day only 15 minutes were we ever in the 90s thats all you need. As long as philadelphia keeps punching out 90s the heat wave continues. Atlantic city another 90 degrees. Everywhere else made it into the upper 80s. Wilmington, 88. Yesterday, pottstown, 87. Allentown, yesterday, topping out at 86. Current temperatures, tanersville, 58 degrees, look at the 50s showing up north and west. Coatsville, 59. Oxford, 59. Chester 59. Saint davids getting into the 60s, 61. Kennett square 61. Levittown, 64. Mid 60s across south jersey and delaware. Buena, 65. Satellite and radar, just like yesterday should be another day featuring full sunshine.
Satellite and radar, we have a few high, thin clouds to the south pushing across the delmarva, the virginias and the carolinas. Seeing cloudiness this morning everybody else, bright sunshine. We expect to see sunshine throughout the duration of the afternoon. Lunchtime, 85 degrees, look at all the sun. 3 00 p. M. , 88. 6 00 p. M. , 88. We should manage to climb up to 90 degrees which would keep the heat wave going. Sun sets at 8 14. Thunderstorm chance we dont have any today or tomorrow, but they increase as we get toward the middle of the week and the pattern changes with the set of thunderstorm activity here, it turns sharply cooler in the sevenday forecast. Ill have that in just a bit. Breaking right now. Malaysian officials have confirmed metallic debris found on the shoreline of the French Island is not connected to the missing malaysian flight. On wednesday a wing flap turned up. This morning malaysian authorities confirm the flap is from a boeing 777. It is the same type of airc