Through the that have been passing through the Southern Tier of the region. A lot of lightning out of this, it will be off the coast today. Storms that form will be moving slowly. So those under it will be getting a good downpour that may last a little while. Theres cloud cover around the region. Some of us will get early sun. Overall it will be clouds and sun and warm this afternoon and channels of a additional showers and thunderstorms. Theres a flood watch late this evening, in the northern suburbs, everything north of the philadelphia. And allentown and the poconos trenton included in this, and montgomery and bucks county. Any thunderstorms that form this afternoon or evening could include drenching downpours and in this area you have seen four to 6 inches of rain over the last couple of days and the run off from any additional downpour will be easy to get going. 77 in philadelphia. 76 in wilmington. 73 in trenton. 73 in allentown, currently. 677 in cape may. Dewpoints are kind of
Gunfire rings out in philadelphia sending a man to the hospital with serious injuries. Plus, it is harry potter midnight mania, the wizard is back casting another spell. Well send it outside to chris sowers with a check of the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. You had to lose the coat out there, its hot and sticky. Reporter it feels like a swamp out here, very hot and sticky. Very floridalike, the tropical air is hanging on. Its dry on city avenue, the roads are wet, but its not raining. You have to go up a couple of miles to get into the heavy, drenching downpours. Most of the activity is shifted east into southern new jersey, although we have cells in lower montgomery and bucks county. You can see the heavy rain route 1 heading out of frankford into bensalem. This cell is dropping heavy rain. The National Weather service issued a flood advisory, lower montgomery and lower bucks county. Extreme western Burlington County and Philadelphia County up for another 15 or 20 minutes or
It is happening right now at the lumber yard on delsea drivein Franklin Township where action News Reporter jeff chirico joins us live with the very latest, jeff . Reporter walter, sarah, this is as close as we can get you right now but looking through those trees you can see Fire Fighters are still putting water on the hot spots. There are 30 companies here from across south jersey working on this operation, that the chief of police here, im sorry, fire chief hearsays the building is a total loss. This ace huge blow to the community as the coluci lum where yard has been serving this Community Since 1945. Viewer video shows the flames and heavy smoke ripping through the lumber yard on the 300 block of delsea drive nearly 200 Fire Fighters, spent hours, battling the blaze in near 90degree heat. The wind side trying to make an effort to stop the fire. But conditions deteriorated rapidly. They back out with the defensive operation. Reporter because the community does not have hydrants tan
The heaviest is drifting to the east, lbi. Surf city to beach haven seeing heavy downpours, Seaside Heights Point Pleasant beach, seeing more downpours. This is for central ocean county, lacey, toms river. The bulls eye was northwest of lacey everything is starting to wind down. Thats good news there. Clouds limited sun, similar to yesterday, more showers and thunderstorms are expected, although its not expected to be as busy as what we saw yesterday. These are going to be pop up storms that 89 will feel like 93, 94 with the oppressive amount of humidity. We have showers and thunderstorms in the forecast, those could produce flooding problems, ill be back in a few minutes with the latest from the sevenday forecast. The overnight storms wreaked havoc in some areas. Look at this, a tree snapped and fell on to a parked suv between 10th and 11th street on south street. Nobody was inside the suv at the time. Well, police had to block off part of the road in strawberry plans overnight after
Overnight. We may not be done just yet. Plus the investigation begins into the nations worst single hot air ploon crash. Eagles balloon crash, and eagles nation turns out to get a first look at the birds. Were live. But first lets go outside to chris sowers with the forecast, we could have popup thunderstorms today. Reporter its oppressively humid if you have not been outside, you know how muggy its been over the last couple of days. The humidity is not going anywhere time soon. It will last tonight and tomorrow and well keep the showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the next day 48 hours. Down scan live we set it in motion, were not seeing much in and around the philadelphia area. As you look toward the top of your screen you can see a cell out of hurt Hunterdon County youre under a Flash Flood Warning until 3 15 p. M. , Doppler Radar showing 5 inches of have fallen up in rariton and east ward. These recorded totals. Phlegm flemming ton, 2 inches of rain. All that has fallen i