we will send it outside to my collogue kate bilo, good afternoon, kate. >> yes, if you stepped outside in the last couple hours it is a completely different day. sunnies out. it feels almost humid outside as dew point rise. the behind me in center city i'm seeing towering cumulus cloud an indication of differential heating as cloud start to build in the atmosphere. i will post that picture in my wetter feed in a few minutes. take a look you will see what i mean. it has warmed up nicely. 75 the the airport. seventy-six in dover. that is evident the to the south as well down toward washington d.c. and richmond temperatures near 80. storms have plenty of heat to work w dew points high in the 60's. they have plenty of moisture to work w it feels soupy and summer-like out here. ingredients for severe weather tonight, plenty of heat and moisture with the warm temperatures and high dew point. we have lifting mechanism from the west. that is cold front. we have wind sheer change of speed and direction and wind as you head a aloft in the environment. coming up later we will talk about wind shee

meteorologist kate bilo is live at sit accepts bank park. kate, that is a great place to be right now. >> great place to be for sure, guess contact here at citizens bank park. sunnies shining. we brought. cbs-3 mobile weather lab down. lets look at the temperature. we have 73.9 degrees. almost 74 degrees still right now. but you will notice i broke out the wind breaker because breeze has pick up. i broke out the hat. then we need wind breaker. it is feeling chilly when wind is blowing. cannot blame about the chill on our first 70 plus degree day of the year. everybody is enjoying a beautiful, monday and a perfect opening day. let look at temperatures right now still sitting at 37 at the airport. cooler down the shore. sixty's in at atlantic city. we will see 74 for the high. the that is our warmest day since october 28th of this last year. it has been a long cold winter. the wind are picking up. storm scan three shows a few cloud from the west but eventually as we wide up out you can see what is lurking off to the south and west. cloud, showe

meteorologist kate bilo live on the cbs3 sky deck tracking how wet our holiday weekend is actually goingo be. kate? >> the good news natasha this is only going to last through tonight and most of the holiday weekend should be spared from the rain. the problem is we still have a lot of rain to get through or at least scattered showers through tonight and some very strong winds will then take the place of the rain for tomorrow. let's take look once again at storm scan3. you can see a lot of green on the radar still back across western pennsylvania down toward the dc area and all those showers are going to be lifting in here during the overnight hours. don't be surprised at least until thee, four, even six or 7:00 a.m. showers could continue to fall you may hear that pitter patter on your rooftop tonight while you're trying to sleep here's midnight the rain to the south and west starting to move in 2:00 a.m. it's moving on through. maybe even a rumble of thunder. 4:00 a.m. we're still dealing with the showers and then we start to clear things out. but then the wind picks up the pace. temper

tornado is possible in that watch area our team coverage continues right new with meteorologist kate bilo on the cbs-3 sky deck for more on this tornado watch and ingredients of why this is all happening good evening, kate. >> reporter: good evening, kathy. even though threat for tornadoes is isolated and localized across our area tonight as we kick off severe weather season this is a reminder you want a plan in place if a tornado warning is issued for your area do you know where you aring accounts basement interior room good exercise to prepare if the risk is generally low at least for tonight. still cannot rule that out across the area lets talk about why. as we know sun came out, it is warm and steamy outside. still 74 at the airport. 75 degrees in dover. further north allentown in the lower 60's and notice cool's long the coast as well. we have marine air mass keeping things cooler a and that is more stable along the the shore points. that is why the shore is not included in the tornado watch. you can see how warm around d.c. slightly rain cooled now at 72 degrees. richmond up to 77 d

meteorologist kate bilo is in the weather center. that was me earlier. i could not get out of there fast enough. hopefully we can put umbrella away soon. >> keep it out and with you until tomorrow morning, and you won't need it for remainder of the who will take weekend which is great news. but we still have scatter showers and all that green dotting storm scan three picture this evening. we have showers off to the north and west a break in the city and across south jersey but i want to focus on southern delaware, and into extreme southern new jersey because these are areas thaw want to watch for potentially strong storms. while none is severe you can see with warmth as temperatures got in the 70's down in southern delaware these storms are feeding off that and becoming more intense with heavier rainfall and chance for strong gusty wind. that is worst of it so far. showers will be scattered, we will mainly just be dealing with these light bursts of rain on and off throughout the rest of tonight the but cannot rule out isolated strong then are storms in s

meteorologist kate bilo is tracking some very welcome changes. kate? >> that's right, chris.t has been gray gloomy and chilly i was week were you the gray and the gloom kind of saved us from these strong thunderstorms. they moved by to the south where temperatures rose into the 70s and now moving offshore. clear skies to come big improvements for the weekend. i'll tell you about that forecast an warmup next week coming up in just a bit. chris. >> all right, kate the sneeze see itchy eyes spring allergy season has arrived with a vengeance. we'll tell you why doctors say this year will be especially hard on allergy sufferers. >> plus a local park and playground are vandalized now community is dead manning answers for crime they say keeps happening. >> and there was nothing high speed about this chase. the unusual thing this driver did in the middle of the and just like that the snow is gone. and parkas become jackets. and sweaters go down for a long nap. and off you go. and your backyard gets a whole lot bigger. and you're running... and climbing... and your gear gets lighter a

meteorology kate bilo in for kathy tonight fracking would be kate the first severe weather of the season>> that's right, chris. certainly for us we do have the risk for severe thunderstorms moving in along that same cold front that has been causing severe weather across the midwest all night long and it is still going on at this hour. let's take you back out to storm scan3 and you can see we've got a warm front lifting through our area at the moment. that is just rape for the most part few rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightning down in maryland but the stronger system cold front is back to the west. that is -- that system brought that severe weather to portions of illinois into missourily yell today and that is moving east and will be heading our way tomorrow. the question is how much sun do we get in the afternoon how much warmth do we get to fuel these storms as they come through later tomorrow afternoon. that remains to be seen. you can see for our area this evening we're seeing some showers again there are some lightning bolts showing up here oh on storm scan3 near d.c. maybe a

meteorologist kate bilo is their life along with the cbs-3 mobile weather lab, kate? >> well, chris such a great night out here. it feels like summertime. temperatures in the upper 70's. we're here with the cbs-3 mobil weather lab. we are at 76 degrees right now on the mobile weather lab feeling fantastic. almost 10 degrees above seasonal average. the let look a photo from eyewitness weather watchers from phil chapline in the farms, what a gorgeous shot he took. thank you as always to our weather watchers. things are looking beautiful with those big puffy cloud. now everything will be nice throughout the rest of the the today but then we have some changes on the way. lets take a look at storm scan three. you can see this developing system off the coast of the carolinas. that is where it will exit the coast. mostly stehlin off shore but it will bring in a cooler easterly flow back in our region starting late tomorrow and then on friday. temperatures right now in the 70's across the board mount pocono close at 68 degrees. wild week from 77 today, back to the 60's tomorr

meteorologist kate bilo has made her way out on the cbs3 sky deck with a reason we might want to keep the umbrellas handy. >> kate. >> someone mentioned on twitter earlier tonight spring played a belated april fool's joke on philadelphia, and that's what it feel like. we were given this nice taste of spring to start the week and then abruptly it was whisked away replay with this a light fine mist drizzle falling across the city right now and temperatures are well below average. take quick look at storm scan3. you can see we're seeing light mist and drizzle nothing too steady watch those showers off to the west a few could try to sneak in overnight it looks as though they'll dive south of here. also look at these temperatures. it is cold. even by early april standards 40 degrees. well below normal. 39 degrees in reading right now. 33 in mount pocono. and here is the what it feels like. it feels below freezing in trenton atlantic city, mount pocono it feels like 23 right now with that cold raw northeast wind off the atlantic ocean and we've got another day of this winter like chill to g

will get to her in just a moment but first the person we need to give brace to today meteorologist kate bilo. kate what a fantastic way to kick off the season. >> you could not ask for better day better weather for home opener than this nicest one i remember in quite sometime. joining me is is bruce from bear delaware. the bruce, do you remember an opening day like this in recent past. >> not whatsoever. it is always rainy. this was a gorgeous day. >> how do the phillies look out there. >> well, they are rebuilding and hopefully we will get it down the road but hopefully everything will be okay. >> i think it will. you know if this day bode for anything in the season we got some good luck heading our day, right. >> i agree hundred percent but this was a great opening day. the last opening day i came it was rainy, cold chilly 48 degrees. >> nothing like that today. >> lets look at the temperatures right now outside. it is 47 degrees outside right now, feeling fantastic outside and last time we were in the 70's like this was back in the november. 72 degrees on november 24th. things are looking

. >>> so nice we could not keep kate bilo inside. the she's down on dit worth park. hi there kate. >> hi there chris what a beautiful day it is. folks have said it is too beautiful to come inside. turf sit outside with the new fountains and i think they will have a outdoor zoomba class at 6:00. great day right now. let look at what we are looking at, we are calling it a seven day spoiler, day you want to look forward to the in the seven day saturday. day you want to look out for is monday. coming up with the full seven day forecast i will tell you why, stay tune, we will have it in a couple minutes, live from dilworth park with the cbs-3 mobile weather lab back to you in the studio. >> thanks very much. >>> new at 5:30, life lessons from philadelphia's district attorney. seth williams went to a west philadelphia middle school to talk about bullying and gave the students there an education on handling their young lives. pat ciarrocchi was there. >> reporter: hand shot up in quick response i just thought someone was bringing a gun to the bus. >> reporter: the gun was to

meteorologist kate bilo is live on the sky deck where it looks like you had to break out umbrella kate. >> i did indeed, it is pretty miserable out here right now and lift up my umbrella to see behind me. i will show you center city from the cbs-3 sky deck looking glummy and dreary, low cloud out and about tonight and temperatures well below average. the lets look at storm scan three. lets look at any rain activity scattered and light just mist and drizzle, steadier showers here and there it has pick up in center city in the past five or ten minutes. zooming out you can see snow in the boston area and look at the storms to the the south moving over west virginia nasty storms there now starting to fall apart and change mainly into rain as they hit that colder dryer air. temperatures right now look at these numbers. these are february-like numbers, 41 at the the airport. thirty-nine in trenton. it is 42 in wilmington. we have a brisk northeast win, look at these temperatures drop from this time yesterday, 26 degrees colder now in philadelphia and wind chills are only in the 30's. we have

meteorologist kate bilo in your justin and tracking changes ahead for us. hanging for the better natasha which is good news. pretty nice weather on the way this week. we do have one colder cooler than normal day and that day is tomorrow. let's take look at storm scan3. not showing a lot of anything. clouds drifting through here this evening and on the overnight hours. storm scan3 a few showers starting to rotate into eastern can in a today. cool pocket of air with stationary upper level storm system sending showers southward an few of them could impact us tomorrow afternoon. they will be few and far between though. temperatures have started to rise. slowly, slowly through the weekend after a cold friday just 56 degrees. saturday got to 58. and then today 64 we hit a little bit of a dip here as we head into our monday but then temperatures start to rise and actually going up average by tuesday and wednesday and that will be a welcomed change for us after this cool pattern that tarred last thursday. 52 degrees right now in philadelphia. not too bad. 48 degrees

meteorologist kathy orr will have more on the forecast but we will begin outside with kate bilo live from wynfield just a beautiful day to do anything but kate, we know you have been talking science. >> we have been talking science on this beautiful day chris. you have to love a job that says i will take mobil weather lab and be outside all day. i'm loving my job today. people here at wynfield library write loving their jobs as well. franklin institute came in. they had a science fair for the the kid. this is a great community library. st. joes student volunteer to clean up ground in front of the library. just i great community gathering place and great thing for the kid. lets look at what they have got to experience today. franklin institute science festival going on all week long and we had all partners in here. we had audubon jefferson chemical heritage foundation among others, chemistry robotics we had biology here today, we had lots of experiment for kid to partake in and they were so excited. it warms my heart to see these kid especially young girls so interested in science in s

meteorologist kate bilo outside with the umbrella up. on the sky deck. kate, how is it going out there? >> eighths whole lot colder out here chris and jessica than it was just a few hours ago and we've got some light to moderate rain falling in the city at the moment. take a look at this dramatic drop that we felt today. look at these numbers. we got to 69 degrees for the high today. that was around 2:00 p.m. then a steady drop as northeast winds picked up now it's only 46 degrees. that means in the course of the past nine hours or so temperatures have dropped 23 degrees. and with the cold air and those chilly winds coming in you can see still steady showers packing up across the region. especially over portions of the burlington and ocean counties at the moment. i'll let you know how long this chill lasts up when we can expect the sunshine to return with the seven day forecast. >> all right, kate see in you a bit. thank you. >>> ly on the way, the attack no one saw coming. >> new jersey man attacked by a coyote while working in his own yard. he shares hi

. >> meteorologist kate bilo is in dilworth park where that is exactly what is happening, hi kate. >> hi chris and jessica. what a beautiful evening this is. this is so much fun. i'm having a blast at dilworth park. we have free zoomba in beautiful dilworth park. we have a great instructor. people are having a blast. they have music going. it is free. they have plenty of space to come down and try it for yourself. lets look the at evening. temperature wise it will be a really beautiful evening. the cloud are moving in. but still 67 degrees around 7:00 and then we will drop down in the lower 60's as we head toward nine or ten or 11:00 as cloud move in. the cloud overnight will keep it mile. great night to be out and about in the city. back here live thinks only one of many events you can find to get healthy and bet moving this spring. i want to bring in laura from the center city district. this is amazing. how much fun is this. >> it is terrific. this is by far best night we have had weather-wise. march was a little rough. >> a lot more people coming out here tonight. >> having tons of

well, let's check in, our friends meteorologist kate bilo is in for justin and joins us with the firstorecast. >> hey, natasha. today turned out to be the nicest day of the past few. it felt very warm out there with the sun beating down even though we were still about 3 degrees below average less winds, stronger sun and a few degrees of warmth really made today feel pretty nice but on storm scan3 a few clouds are starting to move through, we had a lot of sunshine earlier now. clouds have taken over. tomorrow showers will follow that same path from north to south. isolated showers here and there, not a big deal for tomorrow. let's talk about the temperatures. because we know the average is 67. friday we only got to 56. yesterday 58. today though we got back to 64 pretty close. temperatures may take a little bit of a dive tomorrow back into the low 60's but by the middle of the week we finally go above average. a nice warmup is on the way. right now we're holding in the 60's. 62 at the airport 62 degrees in wilmington and 60 degrees in reading it's 69 in willow grove and 57 in quakertown

. >> lets check with kate bilo for latest check of the system. how is it looking. >> it is quiet here in philadelphia, it is still cold temperatures well below average. you can see thick cloud cover for the past two days it feels like a long time since we have seen the sun, all thanks to the east wind keeping things chilly damp and very gray but it is quiet at least for now. take a look at storm scan three, things are lighting off to the west, center of the storm is right about here snow on the back edge now over portions of nebraska, iowa, cold front is right here with strong storms. thinks a warm front starting to lift north moving through our area tonight and will produce threat for couple showers overnight. as we look at these severe thunder storm watches a across southern ohio and western pennsylvania and look at how this area of thunderstorms has bowed outward. when you see that bow echo that is an indication that storms are producing win gusts and severe thunderstorm warnings around pittsburgh and as we move to the west we have tornado wat

meteorologist kate bilo is in the cbs3 weather sent now and kate you are track something rain. >> i amh the phillies lost and lost by quite a bit people were still happy because the weather was so nice but unfortunately take a look at what is moving in now. showers across western and central pennsylvania and they are getting in our north and west suburbs at the moment. not a whole lot. just a few light showers. but we've got showers in the forecast every day through at least friday. a far cry from today we hit 75 making it the highest temperature since october 28th october 28th. coming up in just a bit we'll talk about more showers when they really arrive in earnest across the region. also a big temperature drop for the middle of the week and it's going to be damly for days. i hope you got your fill of sunshine today. that's all coming up with the seven day forecast. jessica. >> kate we'll see in you a bit. jurors in the aaron hear and in dez case could begin deliberations tomorrow. he face as first degree murder charge. the defense started its case today. and then rested after calling

spector made owes like they had in illinois where we're in the weather center and meteorologist kate bilo joins us. kate this was a terrifying night for people in the midwest. >> just terrifying. severe weather season got off to a slow start but just like nights like last night are making up for lost time. lets look at storm scan three. what we saw out there last night. we will track those tornadoes. they came up along a cold front that is coming through our area this evening. you can see those storms moving through northern illinois. i want to zoom in and you can see a few report, numerous tornado reports that this one right here where you see clusters that is the one that went through fair dale illinois. as we zoom in, i want to show you a define hook. is there the storm. see how it gets that hook shape moving toward fair dale airing use towards fair dale. the these are northwesterly suburbs. little tiny ham lets here in northern illinois and take a look at this we will zoom in and see fair dale right here, tiny little town look the a the shape of this storm. the this is what we call an

the meteorologist kathy orr is off today we have kate bilo in with us, checking on this holiday weekend. how sit looking kate. >> tonight not looking so great. we have more rain more wind and even chance for a few thunderstorms but remainder of the who will take weekend looks sunny at least. best day of the next stretch will be easter sunday heading through weekend. that is our best day to look forward to. to take has been warm but we have several more hours of rain to get through. i want to draw your attention to nasty storms over portions of kentucky. as those continue to move in our direction we will to have be alert for localized, strong thunderstorms through the remained other this evening and night. i want to draw your attention zooming in more you can see one cell that has started to develop just off the coast into portions of maryland and that is moving in portions of sussex county, delaware. we have cloud cover in place and showers that stabilizing the atmosphere and not providing a whole lot of fuel for any severe thunderstorms to work w threat is localized through rest of ton

meteorologist kate bilo on the the skies deck with details on a temperature drop coming our way, kate. >> that is right, jessica, it is spring and spring characterized around here by these temperatures swings that gets warm and cool again and of course april showers. we have those. we had a few today and few more on the way. out here clouds are rolling in and you can see it taking a look at quadruple sweep on storm scan three we are scanning area and find something rain. we saw cleve with the umbrella down the shore. we have showers just enveloping the entire shore area and some steady showers moving in upper bucks and montgomery counties at the moment. part of the larger system bringing rain and cloud cover to much of the north east and what happens tonight a northeast wind picks up keeping showers around and bring in cool air off the north atlantic. temperatures will drop. it will stay low for a couple days. notice through 7:00 tonight we have scattered showers, steady rain possible around midnight and just keeps going right through day tomorrow. not a total wash out but showers at

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. >>> meteorologist kate bilo joins us for a look at the forecast, it was a pleasant enough day. >> wee sunshine this morning then what we had anticipated and that helped and got temperatures in the 70's today i went for a run this morning. i saw people outside enjoying this. but now it is cooler, already. lets look at what is had happening outside we will take you down the shore and one area that the cool air is really already being felt. this is, of course, ocean city boardwalk in just a few months, this camera will be hopping as it always is once you hit memorial day and throughout the summer. just a few folks out there in their jackets enjoying a cool breeze off the ocean down the shore today. one of the days where salt air hits you in the face minute you step outside. storm scan three does show a few showers moving through lancaster county over toward baltimore area. rest of the area has luck out. we had a heavy thunderstorm over salem cumberland counties that has moved on out and for right now things are quiet. lets check with our eyewitness weather watchers. they are reporting c

meteorologist kate bilo is in the cbs3 weather sent now and kate you are track something rain. >> i am jessica. unfortunately i was at the ballpark today and even though the phillies lost and lost by quite a bit people were still happy because the weather was so nice but unfortunately take a look at what is moving in now. showers across western and central pennsylvania and they are getting in our north and west suburbs at the moment. not a whole lot. just a few light showers. but we've got showers in the forecast every day through at least friday. a far cry from today we hit 75 making it the highest temperature since october 28th october 28th. coming up in just a bit we'll talk about more showers when they really arrive in earnest across the region. also a big temperature drop for the middle of the week and it's going to be damly for days. i hope you got your fill of sunshine today. that's all coming up with the seven day forecast. jessica. >> kate we'll see in you a bit. jurors in the aaron hear and in dez case could begin deliberations tomorrow. he face as first degree murder charge.