But the big story on action news tonight is a rocky start to the fourth of july weekend forecast. It has been humid, unsettled with the mix of sun and rain and right now a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until tonight for most of our area taking a look from sky six over the Philadelphia International airport, you can see rain, coming down right now and those dark skies are above. Action news cam was in abington as well, just a few minutes ago where you can see rain is really coming down. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is here now with the first check of the accu Weather Forecast, medical list a. Walter, we have been un settled throughout much of the afternoon and looking at Storm Tracker six live double scan radar you can see showers , storms, moving out of the northwestern suburbs pressing into that 95 corridor and slowly press nothing to areas in south jersey. Not only do we have a severe thunderstorm watch out but a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for sale em, camden, gloucester cou
Starting to work in from the northwest. Were seeing dewpoints in the mid 60s and mid 70s first thing this morning. Were starting to see the westerly winds do its thing here and dry the atmosphere out. 78 is the exoint in dewpoint in dover, millville, 70. Beach haven, 72. Its going to be hot today, but unlike yesterday we wont be dealing with the oppressive humidity. Call from accuweather, mostly sunny, less humid, nice day, 90 degrees is the forecasted high. One thing make sure you continue to apply the sunscreen if youre laying on the beach, uv index is very high. Looking ahead, less humid thats the headline over the next few days, lots of sunshine expecting with high temperatures of 90 degrees. We run the risk of seeing thunderstorms, especially on the 4th of july. I know a lot of you have fireworks plans and picnics and things like that. Ill be back and time everything out foy on future tracker 6 and show you cooler numbers in the seven day forecast. We begin with breaking news and
Now. Are you planning a trip to the shore . The invisible danger thats closing beaches. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. We begin tonight with that bad news if you like heading down to the beach bacteria has more than a dozen beaches along the new jersey coast off limits. Good evening im iain page. Im lucy noland. The source of that bacteria pretty nasty. It certainly not good for business. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in ventnor, new jersey. Shawnette. Reporter well, it was very quite out here today for such a nice day. What we know is ventnor will be closed for 24 hours as of 1 00 oclock this afternoon. It will be tomorrow morning around 10 00 oclock when they find out if it will be ail to open again. Nineyearold daniel marks and his sister caroline are spending the summer here in ventnor but got up today to find the beach closed. Thats not so fun,. Not fun. Reporter ventnor is one of nearly three dozen new jersey beaches including rivers and b bays state department of epa found higher
I think its good that theyre testing the water but its, um, its definitely upse upsetting as somebody that wants to go into the water with my family. Reporter david funk is lieutenant with ventnor beach patrol. Hes been monitoring the deps findings on new jersey beaches. Org. It shows you areas that are open. Reporter lieutenant funk says they were under advisory the past two days but closed at 1 00 oclock this afternoon after the water was tested again and the bacteria levels had risen. Which we believe is due to storm water run off. The last few tide cycles, high tide cycles were higher than normal and with the predominant on shore flow of the wind its been keeping that flow that would usually go out to sea with the tides closer to the beach. So it was unable to disperse like normal. Reporter Water Quality testing is ongoing. So to fine out the status of a beep near you just go to fox 2 29. Com. In ventnor, shawnette wilson, fox 29 news. So hopefully the weather will be able to help
I think its good that theyre testing the water but its, um, its definitely upse upsetting as somebody that wants to go into the water with my family. Reporter david funk is lieutenant with ventnor beach patrol. Hes been monitoring the deps findings on new jersey beaches. Org. It shows you areas that are open. Reporter lieutenant funk says they were under advisory the past two days but closed at 1 00 oclock this afternoon after the water was tested again and the bacteria levels had risen. Which we believe is due to storm water run off. The last few tide cycles, high tide cycles were higher than normal and with the predominant on shore flow of the wind its been keeping that flow that would usually go out to sea with the tides closer to the beach. So it was unable to disperse like normal. Reporter Water Quality testing is ongoing. So to fine out the status of a beep near you just go to fox 2 29. Com. In ventnor, shawnette wilson, fox 29 news. So hopefully the weather will be able to help