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Westmoreland avenue. Watching route 70, still seeing volume heading out the door there. Were getting into the beginnings of what is rush hour. We still have the water main break. You can see flashing lights at kings highway. There are some in the intersection, as well. A slow go moving down that eastbound side. Ill end on the p. A. Turnpike. Drive times look good so far east and west, route 1 to valley forge. East and west, speeds into the 60s. Thanks. Now to the first alert coverage and the snow threat ahead. Heres a live picture from cape may along the jersey shore. People are preparing for the brunt of the wintry blast. And katy zachry with more on the preparations underway as we speak. Reporter right now at the jersey shore, you have a lot of preparations underway. A lot of people have Nervous Energy about whats coming in the next 24 hours. It is so cold here, below freezing temperatures. Look at this. Any leftover snow with s ....
Cold and weve got single digit temperatures in the northern and western suburbs. The big story, of course is the winter storm watch and that approaching noreaster and right now all coastal counties in delaware and south jersey are under a storm watch. This starts this evening, goes all the way until thursday evening and now an advisory has been added in the rest of the south jersey counties all the way up to the i95 corridor. And dover, delaware and kent county delaware also included. This is where most of the snow will likely fall. Although its possible that philadelphia and some parts of southeastern pennsylvania also get something. Ahead of all of this were actually looking at sunshine a little later this morning to start out. And then this cloud cover that you can see welling up and pushing north toward Raleigh North Carolina and into virginia shortly after that will start to overtake us and youre starting to see a lit ....
Hours. This was the first band of storms that moved through chester, montgomery and pushing past bucks county. Heavy rainfall Flash Flood Warnings in effect in those areas. Look at the heavy rainfall and lots of lightning just to the west of glassboro, glassboro seeing the heavy rainfall is moving towards gloucester right now and into camden county. This particular area of storms is reaching into south philadelphia producing heavy rain. Got some lightning there as well. Part of why weve issued a first alert weather day fmr today. Localized flooding is possible because of the heavy downpours and the threat of that will continue this afternoon. Weve already seen some severe thunderstorms this morning with the potentially damaging winds bringing down tree limbs and power lines. Cant rule that out later today either. The forecast is calling for storminess ahead. Well go through the day hour by hour when i come back in ten minutes ....
Two, in some spots more than three inches of rain. There you can see active thunderstorms moving through Northampton County clearing the allentown area. Flood warnings in effect for pennsylvania and south jersey. Flash flooding can occur even after the heaviest rain has ended because it takes some time for the runoff to accumulate and cause the flooding. Be on the look jut for flooded streets this morning. The thunderstorm threat stays with us this morning and into this afternoon. Well go through it hour by hour with the future cast when i come back in ten minutes to show you where the strongest storms are expected to pop up later today. Lets see how the traffic is moving. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Jessica . Were looking live at the boulevard around fox street. You can actually see how wet the roadways are right here. Southbound lanes headed towar ....
You head out the door. Winds little bit of a factor running about 10 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. Still 54 in allentown and trenton, 57 in wilmington and 60 down in cape may. We are going see a nice afternoon he though. 7 oclock 57. 10 00 a. M. , 66. Noon 66. By 66 clock down to 70. Hurricane matthew down a category three as it interacts with the lands mass on the eastern tip of cuba but it is expected to push up into the bahamas and eventually grow back to a category four skirt the coast of florida. It big change this morning is what happens after that. Now looks like the storm stays to the south and has less of an impact on us. Still three days out but that is the way it is tracking right now anyway. Well have that latest track from the National Hurricane center which came out just about an hour ago. Thats coming up in about six minutes. Karen what do you have on the ....