Along the ben franklin parkway as philadelphia prepares to celebrate our nations independence. Down the shore the festivities are already in full swing, boards busy along the coast as fireworks light up the night skies. The big question in all of this, will the weather cooperate with all of the 4th of july celebrations . Backyard barbecues . Right now, stormscan3 is tracking rain. Its expected to arrive in our area tomorrow. Good evening, to you, im jessica dean were hoping its not a washout this weekend, for more on that, lets go to meteorologist kate bilo who is live on the cbs so were clear with the of his look at the holiday if forecast. I wish i had better news for the 4th of july. Its not going to be a total washout. Youre going to be dodgings showers and maybe a thunderstorm, by evening we try to clear things out and get fireworks, starting overnight, and especially into the first half of day tomorrow, we do expect wet weather, lets look at stormscan3, well zoom in, clouds start
Right now at 11 00, the final preparations are under way along the ben franklin parkway as philadelphia prepares to celebrate our nations independence. Down the shore the festivities are already in full swing, boards busy along the coast as fireworks light up the night skies. The big question in all of this, will the weather cooperate with all of the 4th of july celebrations . Backyard barbecues . Right now, stormscan3 is tracking rain. Its expected to arrive in our area tomorrow. Good evening, to you, im jessica dean were hoping its not a washout this weekend, for more on that, lets go to meteorologist kate bilo who is live on the cbs so were clear with the of his look at the holiday if forecast. I wish i had better news for the 4th of july. Its not going to be a total washout. Youre going to be dodgings showers and maybe a thunderstorm, by evening we try to clear things out and get fireworks, starting overnight, and especially into the first half of day tomorrow, we do expect wet wea
Freedom from england back in 1776. Meteorologist Justin Drabick is in our weather center. Justin will the rain clear up for the big fireworks shows tonight. Thats right, natasha i think we have good news. Finally well get some of those steadier showers move off shore. Better conditions if youre checking out fireworks. Still maybe a lingering shower over parts of the Delaware Valley through the evening hours but you can see the bulk of the precipitation now moving off shore, maybe some steadier rain gets in here south of dover delaware in the next few hours. Later on this evening after sunset i think were looking pretty good. Still some clouds around but those clouds will thin out as we head into the late nighttime hours. Look at the temperatures, though. These were the highs today. Much cooler because of the clouds and the showers. Only 73 degrees this afternoon in reading. 75 allentown low 80s though in south jersey. Saw a little bit of sunshine especially in the morning. Heres where
North of us and then we have this other piece of image thats going to go to the south. As we head to the next couple hours, were going to see a few light showers moving into the region. Future weather shows tomorrow morning by 9 00 10 00, thats when well see this moisture starting to push into parts of the poconos and the Lehigh Valley, into northern parts of lancaster county. As i progress the model even more closer to 2 00 p. M. Is when we have the chance to see a few light, quick passing showers. Out of the Lehigh Valley area to the north of philadelphia a few lingering showers to in the afternoon. Cloudy skies as the fireworks start around 8 30 9 00 heading into your sunday we will see more sunshine. Take a look at our 3450ik row climate forecast for tomorrow, poconos, 69 will be the high. For the shore, 75 degrees, ill be tracking whats in store for the entire weekend coming up. A live look at the ben franklin parkway where tomorrow 700,000 people are expected to celebrate Indepen
Tomorrow will be even better. Theres a live look outside right now. Light shower activity, heres what it looks like. Heavier in the poconos and the Lehigh Valley. Along the shore in Atlantic City were seeing light rainfall. Into the rest of the morning hours, were continuing with this trend. Its coming up from the west of us. We have one batch, youll notice that is closer here to moving into parts of the poconos. Other parts of the energy from this system are pushing off to the south of us. Clearing up into the afternoon but still maintaining a few light sprinkles throughout the day. Currently were at 67 in pottstown. 70 degrees in Atlantic City. 72 in cape may. And your poconos forecast today shows a high of 69 degrees. Only 77 in the city. And for the shore on this fourth of july the 70s with a chance of a few passing showers by the afternoon. Ill have an hourbyhour breakdown coming up. Today we celebrate our independence. Heres a live look over center city where 700,000 people more