Up along the coast, 43 in cape may, 45 in beach haven. We saw arrows, direction of the wind is like this, out of the south east and with temperatures close to 40 in the atlantic that mild ocean air will be pouring in land over the next lets say 24 to 48 hours and with no blocking high up here to the north, no source of cold air that means whatever cold you are seeing right now will evaporate and lift north up in canada and retreats. Looking at the wide view all this moisture through here will just stream north right up the appalachians and see low pressure developing along this front here and everything moms from south to north over the next, one to two days here , pockets of heavier rain expected, some locations, could exceed 2 inches of rain by sunday afternoon. Forecast for today we are starting off with cloudy skies , very mild morning, see how quickly numbers will jump here by 4 00, 52. By 7 00, 50 degrees. Numbers pulled down toward evening, rain develop between one and 3 00 this afternoon. The big concern is going to be sunday morning with some locations still seeing that frozen ground, and these heavy drenching downpours we will get a lot of is what called excess run off meaning that moisture will not seep in the ground. Flooding concerns will be a big issue as we get into sunday morning, one to 2 inches have rain, isolated heavier amounts are possible. I will back in a few minutes and talk about that and have the accu weather seven day forecast, gray. Looking forward to the update, chris, thanks. While we get ready for all that rain parts of the midwest are digging on you the from that, right there whole lot of snow. Chicago got hit with a foot of snow yesterday. More snow is expected today. Also, into tomorrow. By tomorrow the windy city will have been blanketed by measurable snowfall, for nine straight days, we dont want that. In detroit snow got many drivers stuck on the smaller streets, some of the cars and trucks are still stranded this morning, at several inches of snow moves into town, plow drivers are being hired to try to clear the back street there , and we are told any vehicles caught in the snow on those roads will not be towed, but they may be snowed in. We have a programming reminder for you this morning action news weekend night now coming your way a bit earlier, join action news anchor walter perez beginning at 5 00 with Melissa Magee with the very latest from accu weather. It was sunny in philadelphia with the parade honoring super bowl champion eagles, eagles players are hitting the roads to meet their loyal fans. Eagles linebacker nigel brad ham continued his super bowl celebration with the visit to Dicks Sporting Goods store in king of prussia. Each received a 125dollar card they got to spend on anything they wanted in the store. Bradham helped the kids pick out their gifts. And darren sproles, donnie jones and Halapoulivaati Vaitai were showing off their super bowl worthy penmanship signing autographs for fans, line was licensing and love was strong at dynasty sports in Oxford Valley mall. And, thank you rodney mc cloud, he was out as well signing autographs, the appreciation event was held at smooth i king in glen mills, delaware county. He posed for pictures as line of fans stretched outside the building. Your time 5 34. Chopper six got a birds eye view from the clean up of the historic celebration eagles super bowl victory parade. It was an awesome sight to see but clean up is not thrilling for the hard workers tasked with cleaning up part raid route. Heres dann cuellar. Reporter first lets give credit where credit is due city workers from the Streets Department have done a tremendous job in clearing upward of 60 tons of trash from philadelphias cherished ben franklin parkway. They went at it with gusto. This is probably largest we have ever had to deal with in terms of the clean up effort. Reporter what a difference a day has made. They have done a good job of cleaning up. Reporter now there is something missing. I see, i remember there being grass at some point. Reporter not one blade of glass remains around eakins oval where hundreds of thousands of fans camped out for the super bowl parade celebration. Oh, man it looks like a waste land out here. It is bound to happen when you have that many people. This areas usually really beautiful but now it is looking like a war zone. It looks so desolate and different. Reporter spokesperson for the parks and recreation say they are assessing the damage from the parade, she said they typically seed areas of the parkway in the spring once weather breaks. They expect to follow same time line but we will in the see any grass until about may. It is usually so beautiful, such an important monument, landmark of the city, it will look great once they finish it backup. I think they will get it together fast. They have been doing work. It is cost of victory, so fly eagles fly. Reporter there you have it , folks at parks and rec usually do a good job keeping up with the landscape on the parkway and there is no reason to believe they wont handle this any differently. In center city im dann cuellar for channel six, action news. You cannery live history making day in philadelphia sports, history on six abc app , right now you can see videos from the big owes moments of the celebration, raw video from the Action Campaign chopper six, and dozens of photos of eagles players and fans, enjoying the championship parade. So, now to an issue plaquing drivers all over the area, potholes. We hate those. They seem to be never ending and repair crews feel the same way. Experts say damage to roads get worse when temperatures keep changing dramatically. They say fur car has been victim of pothole she feels your pain, wednesday night, it happened to her car. My car started shaking. I pulled off. I had a flat tire and broken cd joint in my axle. So when penndot arrived they were kind i was the tenth person since the gentlemens shift started. Reporter she says damage happened while driving on the schuylkill near city avenue. Repairs will cost her hundreds of dollars. She said the experience was frustrating. She is hoping that pothole is filled soon. When i saw estimate i felt like tom brady in the super bowl, it hit me hard report report brian rodolph of penndot says drivers can blame the weather for majority of the potholes. This has been a severe out break, season like 2015 where we saw a lot of freeze thaw cycles, it gets cold, warm, precipitation mixed in, which is causing a lot of detear racial to the pavement. Reporter penndot says they are patching 60 to 70 highways a week to keep up with demand. Rodolph says best thing to does watch your speed and try to avoid those potholes safely we expect to it get worse before it gets better but we will be out there every day when not providing winter Serve Services patching these record report in triple a mechanics always see a up tic in business this time of the year to repair cars damaged by potholes a lot of things can happen when you hit a pothole, tire damage is number one. Our tire calls have gone up significantly in the last few months. Reporter heres advice from the expert. You will hit potholes is a nature of the living in philadelphia and driving on the roads and in this cold weather climate. So just try not to swerve too far out of the way and just, take the damage and have your car serviced regularly and get checked up. Just part of the driving, you will hit one. In the city you can report potholes by calling 311. If it is a state road call 800 fixroad or file a claim if your vehicle is damaged. Penn state universitys annual thon that fights Childhood Cancer is next weekend but one local high School Started the fund raising early. Abington senior high, holds a mini thon every year, and representatives from penn states campus in abington, helped with the event. For eight hours straight last night nearly 300 seniors stayed on their feet, dancing, playing games to raise money for the four Diamonds Fund that benefits Pediatric Cancer Research and treatment, penndots thon raises money for the same organization and last year thon brought in more than 10 milliondollar. If youd like to support, there is a lincoln our six abc web site. Your time 5 39. Still to come on action news on a saturday morning a burglaries spotted breaking in the home, baby monitor offered a clue in this case. And it is not summer but that will not stop thousands of people from heading to Six Flags Great Adventure in new jersey today. Lets take you live outside this morning as you plan your saturday, meteorologist chris sowers tracking, he says a whole lot of rain for your saturday, he has got details and seven day forecast from accu weather when we see you after the break. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. The future is for the unafraid. The Atlantic City auction, and car show, continues today, the Atlantic City convention center. The three day event featured more than 400 vehicles. There are custom and classic cars and some cars let you ride in style, and show your eagles pride, at the same time very cool. And you know you are a diehard fan when you get it tattooed on your head, yep, that is happening, take a look at that other fans who had their eagles pride tattooed on their arms at Pennsylvania Convention center. They were all attending 20th annual philadelphia tattoo arts convention, the event is a live exhibit of the best tattoo work in the world and that ends, tomorrow. Wow. Yeah, wow. I have a tattoo just like that. I have never been into tattoo. Me either. Never wanted to ink myself up, i probably put a snowflake right there. Right there a lot of rain, actually speculate they are afternoon overnight tonight and then especially tomorrow morning, where some locations could actually pick up 3 inches here when all said and done. That will create Flooding Issues which ill talk about in a second. Quiet. Beautiful shot of the sky line and believe it or not temperatures are fairly mild. Normally we should be in the mid 20s closer to the teens north and west but were near 40 in reading. Not too bad, right. Thirtythree in philadelphia. Allentown 36. Thirtytwo for wilmington and millville, dover as well and 40s in the coast here cape may all the way up to beach haven. So not a bad morning and those numbers will continue to climb over weekend here. We could be as warm as 60 degrees tomorrow. Down fall we are expecting periods of rain and you can see pockets here start to go line up. A frontal system that is slowly drifting to the east just like this here and we will see wave after wave after wave ride that front and pre dues heavy rains, rounds of heavier rains. Heres one particular forecast model and you can see this moisture streaming up appalachians and deposit right here, in the midatlantic and expecting good soaking right here one to 2 inches when all said and done with isolated heavier amounts this morning cloudy, temperatures climbing quickly just a slight breeze out of the south east at 5 miles an hour. Around 1 30 we will see first drops off to the southwest, coverage increases, intensity will pick up during the day as well especially south ande here by 5 00 we will see down powers across cumberland, atlantic, Cape May County and another pock pushing through Lehigh Valley. Then we will get into a break or lull in the action during evening hearst but 10 00 oclock not doing much of anything right around immediate philadelphia area but everything starts to reload after midnight and here come some additional rounds of heavier rain. By 5 30 sunday morning lots of heavy rain west of the city, you can see orange, red, and this will continue all morning long sunday into the first part of the afternoon and then by 3 30 it appears to be a squall line pushing through south jersey maybe a quick hitting thunderstorm or rumble of thunder during Late Afternoon hours. Bottom line here to sum this up for you rain develops between one and 3 00, heaviest out of all this activity will occur first thing tomorrow morning, a general one to 2 inches expect isolated heavier amounts to three, and flooding will be a concern especially for streets, roads, some smaller creeks and streams and low lying area. Those will be most susceptible to flooding over next 48 hours and some major rivers not expecting widespread flooding there but there is a chance that maybe some locations in the delaware could flood as well but mainly it is smaller, creeks, streams and some of the local roadways that could flood here, tomorrow morning. Cloudy and mild with rain developing this afternoon 53 degrees is the forecast high. Morning is quiet. Afternoon when we start to pick up that wet weather. Look at the numbers, again in frozen precipitation with this this is all rain and then overnight tonight a soaking rain developing after midnight areas of fog closer to dawn 41 , for center city. Exclusive accu weather seven day forecast we issued the accu weather alert for tomorrow for possibility of flooding. Rain this afternoon 53. Heavy rain tomorrow with a high of 60. Monday cloud breaking for some sunshine up to 48. Tuesday cooler with high of 44 but quiet, wednesday, cloudy, mild backup in the 50s and then thursday next system we are watching more rain another high of 60 degrees and then friday, clouds and sun and 44 but that does in the look like february weather. What is going on. I know, is that normal. Our normal is about 43 and that is, you know, that is like april. Im in the complaining. I will take it. Im in the complaining. Thanks very much. 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Welcome back everyone 5 54 saturday morning forecast for today clouding up. We have actually cloud in place now, rain develops after lunchtime give or take an hour or two as frontal system stalled out to the west and slowly drifting to the east but moving at a snails pace. We will see wave after wave of low pressure ride along that front bringing rounds of wet weather here. There is today. As we get into tomorrow soaking rains and then by afternoon we will ease up a bit but areas across south jersey could see quick hitting thunderstorm as temperatures climb up in the 60s. This is rain not snow this go around part of the reason why is jet strea