Humidity. We hit 98 degrees. Hottest day of the summer. It felt like 111 during the afternoon with the humidity. It will still feel like over hundred degrees today. Drink plenty of water. Same deal just like yesterday. Use common sense. We have excessive heat warning continuing through the entire region with the exemption up in the poconos where humidity levels are slightly lower but still will be unbearable up there. There you go. Areas in the purple there or pink or the heat warnings, much of the i95 corridor all the way up to connecticut and virginia. We are feeling that heat across midatlantic. Today high temperatures mid 90s in spots, tropical humidity levels. It will feel like 105 in a lot of locations. Outside drink water, take it easy, stay indoors and air conditioning if you can. Eightythree the official temperature. Seventythree in allentown. Lower 80s in south jersey this is not factoring in the humidity. Very warm start just like yesterday. New lets factor in humidity feels
Overnight, after Police Involved shooting. Latest developments. The dangerous heat turned deadly in philadelphia and region remains under a excessive heat warning we have latest on when it will start to feel cooler. Today is sunday august 14th good morning im rahel solomon. After a scene like that lets get over to Justin Drabick. When will it feel cooler. Slight decrease and still feeling like over hundred degrees. We will take it. Each day yes, through the workweek we have something to look forward to. At least it is, second half, bodies are used to this heat. Dont get me wrong it is still hot though. True, hate enough in the summer that fall is the horizon. Yes. So just choose your poison. Before you know we will be complaining about the snow. I will be. I wont be. Im just going to enjoy summer. Still another excessive heat warning, continues throughout the entire delaware valley, again, feeling over 100 degrees later this afternoon. Not as bad as yesterday we were feeling 111 in the
Bring brief relief from the heat but dont expect it to go anywhere anytime soon. Tomorrow though noticeably lower humidity levels. It does feel better for upcoming workweek. Outside a live look at 83 degrees, sunshine milk with mid to high level cloud. We are try all across the region southwest wind at 7 miles an hour but already feeling like 92 degrees in philadelphia excessive heat warning continues, actual air temperatures in the mid 90s this afternoon, just like yesterday tropical humidity levels feeling like around 105 in spots this afternoon. Drink water, take it easy if you have to head outside just slow it down there. 83 degrees for the actual air temperature, 82 wilmington and millville new jersey and northwestern suburbs cooling down to the lower 70s in quakertown. We have the high humidity, basically from the city southward. Those heat index upper 80s to lower nine owes not much difference compared to the temperature in the Lehigh Valley but you guys will feel that heat this
95 in wilmington, trenton, 97. Dover is showing a heat index a feels like temperature of 98. Just like yesterday well start out with a ton of sunshine. During the course of the day well get the puffy cumulus clouds and one or two areas you pick up a quick hitting popup shower or thunderstorm. Otherwise, everybody is baking. 98 degrees is the feels the temperature today, the feels like temperature, 110. Theres no relief in sight, just a couple of spotty thunderstorms, when i come back ill detail this in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. The oppressive heat has many folks seeking relief. Creeks and pools will be hot spots as the heat index rises. Im diving in and swimming. We go on hot days, so we wont be as hot. I sometimes bring a fan, a little fan so i can cool myself down. A fan is a good idea in this type of weather as umbrella hats like you see right there. The philadelphia coppering of aiming Heat Corporation of aging heat hot line will take calls. The number is on the
Fill get some help from folks up in bucks county. But once again the big story on action news tonight is day four of this brutal heat, heat index making it feel like well above 100 degrees across the region and we have just learned that two people from philadelphia have have died as a result of the heat, all as the entire viewing area remains under an excessive heat warning until tomorrow night. We have live team coverage. Trish hartman joins us from Fairmount Park where people have been seeking out the shade anywhere they can find it. But we will begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee and the latest from accu heather, melissa. Walter, it is just not the heat but it is also the humidity that makes it unbearable stepping outside. As you mentioned this is day four of the heat wave number five here in philadelphia a. It started wednesday with a high of 93. Thursdays high 95. Yesterday we maxed out at 97. Today our high in philadelphia 98 degrees making this the hottest day so far, this ye