Rain. As we widen out there are downpours and storms popping now in cherry hill as well as parts of southern Mercer County ahead that of main line so a lot to go through as a cold front comes through to wipe out this intense heat and humidity. Talking about the heat and humidity and also the hard part of the storms is the intense downpours. You have more on that part of the story. Thats right. The reason why were getting those showers and storms is that because of all of the heat and humidity today. You look at the heat indies feeling like 94 in philadelphia, weve got a heat index of 94 as well in wilmington, close to 100 there in dover. Heat index up the 95 corridor in trenton feeling like 95 degrees. Thats why that severe thunderstorm watch has been posted until 8 oclock. The big concern with these thunderstorms as they move through gusty winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour and the possibility of hail. In combination with that some locations are underneath a Flash Flood Warning up until 6
Barnsboro 5 oclock, richwood coming in at 5 01, Gloucester City just after the 5 oclock hour, tacony coming in at 5 03, collingswood right around 5 34, so those towns and times as that line continues to push to the east at nearly 45 miles an hour. Not only lightning is a concern but also the intense rain with this. Rainfall rates with these storms have been over two to three as much as 4inches an hour, 4. 3inches per hour, so it is blinding rain as it passes through and we have an additional Severe Thunderstorm Warning southern parts of New Castle County as well as kent county down to woodside. This until about 4 00, 5 30 this morning. Nasty cluster of storms, moving towards miles an hour today nah middletown nearly 150 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes so this well have to watch for all of our Delaware County watches here over the next 15 to 20 minutes. I bring in meteorologist Melissa Magee and this mag and s is a big storm engulfing most of the midatlantic. Thats right. When