Temperature. The heat and humidity arrived even with the sun out people looking for ways to cool off. Im jessica dean. Im ukee washington. The heat was on today and its about to get hotter. Kate its like somebody flip the switch. It feel like weve been feeling Cool Temperatures through the month of may. Suspecting it was going to feel like jumping right into summer as soon as we got the clouds to break and we move out that cool pattern. Thats what happened. We dove head first 92 summer yesterday. Today was even warmer. Temperatures 75 in dover. 74 in cherry hill right now. In philadelphia were sitting at 76 degrees. Take look at allentown. 80 degrees right now at 11 00 oclock at night in late may. Very very warm conditions again its been rising all week long our average high 77. 89 today and tomorrow looks even hotter. 90 degrees the daytime high. I dont usually dust off this graphic until late june or early july. With heat index values in the 90s, this heat can become dangerous to som
It is friday. The ladies are ruling the ruse, Nicole Brewer is in. First, katie with the forecast, all important forecast. Absolutely we do have some sunshine for you yet again, couple of shower or thunderstorms we have to get to. Certainly travel issues along the way, meisha will have that for you in a second. Whats going on on storm scan, at least for now, do you have Little Pocket hereof some showers, no thunder being reported with that or any lightning, at least not doppler indicated, but that Little Pocket is pretty steady stuff if you are traveling eastbound perhaps on 78. Thankfully looks like for the motion part this is pushing out of our area, but regardless, there you have it. At the moment, though, we do have air quality alert that is posted for you here today. Across most of the region, berks, lehigh, northampton county, up to the poconos, you dont have it today. But the rest of us do. And it is going to heat up very efficiently. Take a look, already off to very mild start,
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If you are heading eastbound. Expect that could really slow you down here with the glare. Storm scan nice and quiet. You can see a little bit of green below or behind, the storm scan wording there but we are expecting more than anything, sunshine, here today. You will start to notice it feeling humid with time here and in addition to that we have got some pretty high levels of ground level ozone. Air quality is now, again, a problem, unhealthy for everyone, at this point. So just take it easy out there you can go outside obviously but if you have got asthma, respiratory problems, this could be a rough day for you. Please keep that in mine. Pollen levels are still moderate. Uv index is off the charts at this point. Heat index, you have to use caution, too since humidity is creeping up. Mid 60s as we mentioned here in the city, 63 in Atlantic City. Fortyeight right now in the poconos. Cooler by comparison as it typical in the mountains but we will definitely spike here, 89 degrees later
Memorial day weekend. We are clear skies on storm scan but coming up through tomorrow and friday, we will see showers and then are storms in the countrys midsection. That will eventually get here. Coming up we will let you know if the warmth will link inner to the memorial day weekend for those shore, poconos maybe pool plans this weekend, i will have your full outlook coming up. Back inside to you. Now, that it finally feels like summer out there activity is picking up down the shore. Some lucky people made today, a beach day. Eyewitness news new jersey reporter cleve bryan is live in Atlantic City which more, cleve. Reporter lots of people here on the Atlantic City boardwalk in their flipflops, tank tops bathing suits enjoying summer like weather. I spoke to the businesses that think they are happy to get summer rolling in more ways then one. Soaking up the sun next to his wife of 48 years joe williams body language said all you need to know about this weather. This is, a god send. W