And look at dover. Over 110 degrees. So we are in that excessive heat and its here for while. Right now temperatures down the shore almost as warm as inland temperatures. Close to 90 in ocean city. 90 unless locations through places like wildwood and also avalon and temperatures to the north and west inland south jersey in the 90s. Ocean water temperature 83 degrees. And that is a record. In Atlantic City the temperature in the water 83. 3 degrees. The old record 83. 1 in 2011. That is the warmest temperature taken since the gauge was put in in Atlantic City in lets see 1911. So really amazing there. Excessive heat warning will continue for the philadelphia area. It will feel like 105 to 111 and you can see we do have an excessive heat watch everywhere else. Well have the forecast from the city to shore coming up. Right now, were joining the boardwalk festivities right now and they will have the baby parade getting underway in matter of minutes. Thats very latest from ocean city. Well
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Breaking news out of the gate. Gas main still on fire in south jersey. The flames are shooting out of the ground just feet from the Garden State Parkway. That fire has been burning for hours, still not out. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im chris oconnell. Iain is off tonight. Hours later officials are still trying to figure out how to turn off the gas. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose has been on the scene since this afternoon. Sabina, what is the latest . Reporter well, chris, up until a few minutes ago you could see the flames shooting up behind me. Just before we went on it look like crews have finally gotten a handle on this thing. It looks like they finally figured out how to turn off this valve. I did call south jersey gas and they have not yet confirm the fire is completely out. This took about eight hours to get the fire down. 20 feet high and still blazing. Despite hours of work by gas and emergency crews. By dusk, fl
We are beating the heat this afternoon its amazing lucy and chris. Were talking about heat and humidity combining to make it feel like its between 105 and about 110 over the next couple of days. And we have a really nice sea breeze a wind out of the south southeast right now in ocean city and you can see the flags whipping and also the umbrellas whipping in the breeze no one is leaving because they know if they step on the boardwalk it is going to be oppressive and excessive. Take look at todays high temperatures well into the 90s everywhere. The high today in philadelphia 95. The only place in the 80s the poconos. This is what it feels like. Well over 100 in most locations still at this late hour. 112 thats what it feels like in dover and thats where the maximum temperature and humidity. Down the shore temperatures not much cooler. We are catching a little bit of a break in ocean city with sea breeze. The temperature is 89. On the boardwalk in ocean city or i should say Atlantic City
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