Good evening, im Natasha Brown. Thanks for joining us. Flash flood warnings are in effect as we speak. Lets get right over to meteorologist lauren casey in our Weather Center with more on this dangerous weather. Lauren. Thanks, not shah. Yeah, scary situation in parts of Mercer County as we have been dealing with steady rainfall and rainfall that is heavy at Times Leading to that flash flood event ongoing right now. Storm scan3 showing us most of the activity in and along the i95 corridor and points westward. Rainfall intensity is starting to pick up. This sloop three hours long so you can see that rain coming down steadily throughout that loop, time frame so were just piling up the rain at this point. This is Mercer County right here. The rain continuing to fall and the intensity starting to pick up a little bit in trenton up into the princeton area where we have seen that flooding. So far rainfall totals in the last three hours around parts of Mercer County up to five plus inches of
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Spots, if you are headed out early this morning, especially from the city on south, and eastward, i think we get a break later this morning, but into the afternoon, once we get the daytime heating we start to fire up more showers and storms, in the city right now, we have low clouds, little fog, reducing visibility, little bit. Authorities see the tops of some of the sigh scrapers, current temperature 75 degrees, light breeze out of the southeast at 6 miles per hour, really pumping in the humidity, and you can see, pockets of heavy rain, north side of the city up into bucks county, then you head into south jersey, salem county, moving into northern Cumberland County batch of heavy rain moving off to the north and northeast, again, get stuck in one of the showers, brief heavy downpours, ponding on the road, very low visibility, but they move out pretty quickly, and then to the afternoon, casino of same deal. Mid 70s over most locations, all reporting stations up from the Lehigh Valley d
Believe how humid it was, it wasnt raining but felt wet, the air just felt wet. And feels nasty out there. Rough for football practice today for the eagles, so, it will be tough out there. Humidity sticks around, next couple of days, and we do bring more showers and Storm Chances in our forecast. Little bit cooler than last week. Little cooler, yes, dont have any nines for the next few days, get a break this that. Depends where you are, dealing with more rain this morning, and again, later this afternoon and tonight. Central southern bucks county, north end of philadelphia, looks like that heavier shower, starting to mover out, still part of south jersey, Cumberland County seeing slow moving heavy shower, roll on through, and then ocean county headed toward long beach island, watch out for some heavy rain. And do the slow moving showers, flood advisory has been issued, philadelphia, parts of southern bucks county, into part of western mercer county, new jersey, and Burlington County, a
This is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Right now on Eyewitness News, a storm pounds part of the area bringing driving rains and dangerous flooding, water across many drivers by surprise, causing a number of water rescues in Mercer County. The rain is letting up, hopefully now, but the storm system still lingering in part of our area. Good evening, im natasha brown. Thank you for joining us, these storms rolled in this afternoon, didnt let up four hours in some part of the region. Right over to meteorologist, lauren casey, to find out what the next few hours is throughout the night we can expect. Lauren . Thanks, natasha. Did have rainfall moving in, heavy, stead any nature specially across parts of Mercer County check out the rainfall total from princeton, nearly 6 inches every rainfall, bulk fell in just few hours time, earlier this evening, leading to that flashflooding that was widespread across parts of the area. Bethlehem picking up 2 inches every rainfall over inch in reading and Kennett