Staying cool will be a top priority this weekend. Im Ukee Washington im nicole brewer. In for jessica dean. Lets get to meteorologist kate bilo, live outside on the sky deck. Where its feeling pretty warm. Even at this hour, kate even at this hour, you guys are not going to believe what the feels like temperature right now in the city of philadelphia is at 11 00. Following a day of sweltering heat and humidity. Very little relief overnight. Take a quick look at temperatures. I can tell you it feels like a steam bath out here, opening the sky deck door is like opening the oven door. 86 is the current temperature in philadelphia. 85 in wilmington. Its 80 in reading, allentown is 79. Take a look at our heat index right now, 97 is what it feels like right now at 11 00 at night. 97 degrees. That is dangerous heat because were just going to retain this heat as we head to the weekend and its going to continue getting hotter. We got to 97. That ties for warmest day of the year, the heat index
Were live in rio with all the action. Nbc 10 news starts now. We begin with our first alert. It is day six of this brutal heat wave, and these runners know how quickly things can turn dangerous. This afternoon the city of philadelphia announced another person has died from heatrelated causes. He was a 72yearold man from West Philadelphia who had other medical conditions. This is the citys fourth death during this heat wave and for thousands of other people down in wilmington it is a even harder to stay cool today. Look at this. Take a look at what happened on route 202 in the sharply neighborhood. A trash truck knocked down two power lines this morning. Thousands lost electricity meaning no air conditioning and no fans. Delmarva power tells us everyones power should be restored this evening and because its so important to stay safe during this dangerous heat members of the Philadelphia City Council Passed out fans to people in need today. If youre looking for help like this we put toge
It is an effort. This is fox 29 news at 10 00. It is an effort to try and stay cool tonight, as temperatures climb well into the 90s, for the fourth straight day. But, it is up even hotter than high 90s. And the dangerous heatwave is now turned deadly. Good evening, everybody, im joyce evans. And good evening, im dawn timoney. Sadly Officials Say the death was 67 year old woman and 28 year old woman in philadelphia. Are both heat related. And wife got at least one more day of this dangerous heat. Today was officially the hottest day of the year, as we take live look at the Philadelphia International airport tonight. Lets get right over to meteorologist, dave warren. Dave . Yes, another day at least, and now tracking severe weather, across the lehigh valley, carbon, Monroe County, severe thunderstorm issued, primary risk of this is damaging wind here, out ahead of the storms. Seen few strong storms moving through the north and western suburbs there, that is well to the north, just few s
80 in tampa. Brooksville 75. Good morning to you. Bartow 77 and it is 77 in sarasota and it is a muggy start to the day. On the east coast this morning, its really busy. We have seen thunderstorms at welfare palm. The rain is moving in the opposite way because our winds satellite and radar combined showing midded and high clouds and moisture moving in giving way to 4050 rain chances. So our pattern is the same. We just will take that moisture this afternoon. By noon, 20 rain chance and 87 and only 90 today. I stress only 90 because well hold back the temperatures with us extra rain chance and extra for the person responsible. The east bend Patrol Officer tim smith was killed 9 30 last night just outside of make on. He was responding to a suspicious person call when he en countered the suspect who shot him and then fled the scene. Again police are still searching for the person responsible. Riots break out in wisconsin after a man was shot and killed by a Police Officer in the man was f
Right now at 6 00 were tracking our hottest day of the year around this area. And it is a scorcher. Folks are doing what ever they can to stay cool. Kids here at Spring Garden enjoying a fountain. Good evening, im joyce evans. Im dawn timoney. The heat is compounded by the high humidity making it unbearable and dangerous. Right over to the fox weather authority, now, meteorologist, dave warren standing by with the hot details. No relief yet, here, we have another day of this excessive heat. Maybe not as humid. We will see some relief here. This is the excessive heat warning, and the heat advisory, that are in effect. Now the advisory just today with the warning all the way through tomorrow afternoon. So, watch for that, thats when you get the high heat, plus humidity. Lets look at the heat first. Temps within just few degrees of records today. Still upper 90s, but some rain cooled there, air there in reading at eight a degrees. Allentown at 89. Just little cooler, right along the coast