This is action news sports sunday. Sponsored by audi. Welcome to sports sunday. Im jeff skversky. Since the eagles won the super bowl three weeks ago tonight, both the sixers and flyers have been on fire. The flyers are the hottest team in hockey. The sixers had been the hottest team in the east. 76ers had won seven straight. Their longest winning streak in nine years. But, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Tough on a backtoback for joel embiid and company. A playoff feeling down in d. C. First quarter, embiid with the slam. 25 for jojo. Second quarter, under the net, dario saves the play, ben simmons slams it down. And sixers outscored by 17 in the second, fall down by as many as 23. Sixers lose the first game in 22 days, 10994. Seven game winning streak is over tonight. Well, the sixers, painful process with the exception of tonight, is in the rearview mirror. But in the drivers seat from the beginning, brett brown. The sixers coach. Has trusted the process. An
August 5th 2015. You got another uber story for us, getting into work, well get to that in just a minute. You had quite the tour of philadelphia again today . Yes at 2 00 in the morning. Really . Well get to traffic in just a minute, first lets start off with sue serio. Our city so beautiful at night, isnt it . The view, you hardly ever see. Yep, we make few justments Getting Started in the morning, lets talk about some rain that was around last night. Most of the thunderstorm activity has moved off shore. This is the actual cold front we were talking about yesterday, there had been some rain around ocean city maryland, thats all gone, so lets check 76 degrees, 69 relative humidity, thats not too bad. Dew point will be actually dropping today. We still have west southwest winds at 7 miles an hour, and sunrise your official time 6 03 this morning. So temperatures, look at that cool and comfortable temp in mount pocono, 54 degrees right now, 56 in trenton, the mild spot of course is phil
Is. How exciting. Bus stop buddy excited because he put away the umbrella, muggy the dog inside. I dont think it will be too humid today. We have some sun to look forward tonight so make sure you have the sunscreen, make sure to reply, especially if youre poolside today. Cold front has moved off shore it, will stall to the south, but shouldnt bother us today. High pressure builds in. So now at 74 degrees, with 5mile per hour breeze. And 76 relative humidity. Not great. But not too bad. 6 03 your sunrise time. Dow think the dew point will be dropping throughout the day. So if you are to the north of us, in the 50s, lower 60s, to the south us, it is around 70 degrees. And as we go through the rest of the day, by 9 00 still have some clouds around, in the zeros, and then, 88 degrees, by lunchtime. Probably topping off at around 90, and there is the most important word less humid today. So thats your foxcast for hump day wednesday. Get you close to the weekends, then through the weekends,
6 00 a. M. , sky6 live hd giving you a beautiful glimpse of the ben franklin bridge that we can barely see at this early hour. If you love fall, you got to love the last couple of days. We know chris sowers loves fall, its a chilly start chris. Reporter chris sowers is freezing this morning. Temperatures are in the 30s and 40s believe it or not in some locations. The poconos sitting at 2 degrees above the freezing mark. Patchy frost around lake harmony. Pilots, 42. Quakertown, 42. Warminster, 46. Malvern, 46 degrees. Glass borough. 48. Cinnaminson, 49. Smyrna, 49 degrees. One of the colder mornings weve had in quite sometime, clear skies overnight and we have radiational cooling, the sun radiates back into spaces thats a cooling process. Satellite and radar theres not much going on with the high firmly in control expect to see a very nice day. Yesterday we had a lot of clouds in the afternoon, today is the opposite. Walltowall blue skies and sunshine. 60 degrees by 11 00 a. M. 1 00 p.
It will be a butte. I it is not just the draft, the phillies have a day game today. Thats right. And the penn relays are today. Yes, we are packed with lots of stuff to tell you about. So lets first get to the number which is a much higher number than were had all week. How about eight out of ten today. Because no rain is gone, clouds are around, and we do have some fog around, lancaster, millville, new jersey, mount pocono, experiencing some fog this morning. Nothing here in old city. In fact, the roads are dry, looks good, and it is mild. 61 degrees, with calm winds, and sunrise at 6 06 this morning. Other temperatures, kutztown, 59. West chester, 59 degrees. Starting off in pennsville, with 59. Fiftyeight in williamstown, new jersey, and in toms river, it is 58 degrees. So, for the penn relays, this weekend, starting with today, we should get up to 80 degrees by tomorrow, 82, with a chance of a shower early in the morning, but warm by the afternoon, and a pop up thunderstorm is poss