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almost every where say for a couple choice locations but bottom line is it is very muggy outside. quick check on the area temperatures. we don t have mount pocono but we are in the lower 70 s. seventy-eight at philly international, looking forward in this forecast we still expect to hit lower 90 s, it feels hotter, by 3:00 p.m. we will see thunderstorms to the the western suburbs, closer toward the typical evening russias we mentioned though right over the city of philadelphia, meisha. timing never on our side with these things, it seems, we will send it over to you. never is but such a role with the punches, katie, it is thursday, it is the silver lining that friday is right around the corner. live look outside, it is still dark out there. forty-two freeway north bound for those in new jersey approaching 295 this camera is at creek road. you can see plenty of headlights, outside on the roadways. this is very typical. we will see that slow down a little bit as we head ....
storms for you but we are also talking about the heat. heat wave in the forecast, too. chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz has more on that extreme heat. sheena, that extreme heat has just been busted by the showers and storms you have been showing but we do have an official heat wave now and it s going to continue. the heat advisory, that has been discontinued because the temperature has gone down. this is what it looked like this morning. the temperatures in the 70s to near 80 degrees, but as we go through the day, you can see going up through the 80s and into the 90s. by this afternoon, we were seeing temperatures of 90 degrees and now the rain has really knocked things down. the heat continues, it s barely 90 because of the thunderstorms today but it is going to go back up over the next couple of days and the thunderstorms will not be here. the big change will be in the humidity. i will be back to talk more about the timing of those storms and when the ....
delaware. locally heavy rainfall could cause localized flooding. we will track all this for you. aside from that we are talking about excessive heat. chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is standing by with a look at that. that excessive heat warning has been canceled as the line of thunderstorms has brought the rain to knock down the temperatures and knock some of the humidity out of the air, too. it was really warm and humid early in the day and then just became hotter and more humid and we hit 87 degrees at noontime 88 degrees at 1:00 and there we go. 90 degrees at 2:00 just before the storms hit because it was already down to 74 in reading and 79 in allentown when they got the storms earlier. by 5:00 it s now down to 77 in philadelphia but it s back up to 82 in reading and allentown. the sun coming back out, warming things up again. the feels-like temperature is back up into the upper 80s there. down to 78 in philadelphia, 75 in wilmington, delaware. tha ....
and the potential for some small hail. we will track these storms as they head towards the shore. then we will see nice changes overnight tonight. before that today we have hot weather. chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is standing by with a look at that. those storms put an end at least temporary end to the heat although we did get into the 90s in at least part of the area. it was a close call but we had temperatures going up from the 80s into the 90s in philadelphia. we got up to 90 degrees at 1:00 and the official high was 91 but you can see how much cooler it got north and west because the showers came in sooner. then we dropped into the 70s as the showers came in and now we are all pretty comfortable. we now have an official heat wave, three days in a row of temperatures of 90 plus. now we are going to be busting the humidity but the temperature is still going to be up there. as we go through the day, tomorrow, you are not going to see a heat index l ....
5:00 should reach daytime high of 90 degrees for philadelphia in the sunshine at the shore looking good, and nice off shore win. 84 degrees. poconos nice and comfortable. sunshine. eighty-two. we will talk about hotter temperatures in the weekend. we will show thaw in a few minutes but first lets check on the roads with meisha, good morning. good morning, to all of you at home. we know it will be warm but who can complain about that sunshine especially on a friday. here s the platt bridge we are looking at this a little bit ago. we had a disable vehicle that has been since cleared but see a nice steady stream, plenty of headlights to be honest with you. we are looking around and already moving a at this 5:00 o clock hour. friday tend to be lighter travel day but we are seeing plenty of headlights out there we have construction on the pennsylvania turnpike between bensalem and willow grove that has been cleared, however, in that same spot we have an accident, again, pe ....