not severe and developing at downtown reading and a few lightning strikes and rain with that, and kutztown a downpour passing through about two lightning strike there's. this is pushing towards wakefield and kirkwood and southern chester county, but it looks like this is beginning to fall apart. good news with that particular downpour and trying to develop into a thunderstorm. as we look at the temperatures, 88 in philadelphia and 87 dover and 88 in philadelphia. a severe thunderstorm watch is in affect for the entire viewing area until 10:00 and the watch means the potential is there when the storms develop to turn severe limits with locally damaging windses and the possibility of some of that hail. future tracker at 6:00, we don't vtd solid squall line we had last night. it's a little more scattered but where they hit they hit hard. you see pocket as long i-95 and that continues through the 11:30 hour as well. it's something we follow even beyond that 10:00 hour during the overnight hours, as we look at your five-day at 5:00, sun and clouds for the next few days, more cloud cover in the

storms and now a second round is passing through, in affect for the central part of berks county from kutztown to reading and hamburg, we look at double scan live, closer this suppose to the minute look at the radar, it's passing to the east of down town reading splitding between 322 and 422, from pottstown to boyers town and route 400. 206 lightning strikes in this vantage point. some of the towns it is heading towards, pine waters at 5:57, and then landis store at 6:03 again. this is severe again with winds, the culprit of 60 miles per hour. we have the storms a couple of hours ago in the same region and moving to the north and east at 15 miles per hour, we see rainfall rates at an inch an hour. a flash flood warning is in affect until 9:30 tonight for the central part of berks county with a lot of water rushing especially on the smaller streams and some street flooding. today's high in philadelphia, 96 degrees and with the combination of the humidity, it felt like 105 and the low this morning was 76, present heat index, it felt like 101 in philadelphia and notice reading cooler, because of

live neighborhood network takes to us kutztown area middle school and you can see the showers and storms, that will be rolling in when the cloud cover this afternoon, heavy rain, and down it is under a, flash flood watch, and that flash flood watch will continue, for all of us, until tomorrow evening. lets go to storm scan three and show you what is going on here. lines of showers and storms developing. we are keeping a careful eye on the thunderstorms over baltimore and washington with prolific lightening. over a thousand lightening strikes here on our live storm scan three right now and all this is moving toward the north east, so we will watch that move right up the i-95 corridor. another line of storms that is developing right now through the the lehigh valley and also berks county, thinks where flooding is occurring right now and these are moving north east at about 25 to 30 miles an hour. so we have these lines of storms, developing, and one in the lehigh valley and reading berks county extending all the way down to maryland to the south of hageers town. so all of this is going to

return and we could have our third heat wave of the year starting with tuesday with highs in the 90s, kutztown, 80 degrees, lancaster, 80 degrees, reading, 82. lots of high clouds, low humidity levels. glassboro, 82. dover, 778. there will be sunshine, but it's filtered, lots of high clouds. and right there on the sand it will become breezy as the day wears on. ocean temperature, 67 degrees for the beaches. although the delaware bay the water temperature is 79 degrees, it's like bath water. jersey shore, clouds and sun, 76 degrees today. maybe up an degree tomorrow, 77, clouds giving way to sunshine for sunday. winds out of the east at 10 to 20 miles per hour. today right there on the sand, waves of 3 feet. moderate risk for rip currents, pay attention to the lifeguards, uv index on a scale of 1 to 11 we'll call it moderate. it's high enough to ply the sunscreen. 60 degrees in the outlying suburbs overnight tonight and 66 in center city. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, looks pretty good overtime next couple of days, each and everyday the humidity starts to increase. today is comf

look at what is going on out there we are certainly expect to go see more sunshine today, outside kutztown area middle school we had sunshine yesterday. currently your temperature at 56 degrees. here is storm scan three clear skies at this point, as this latest system continues to make its retreat. i step over this way you can see heavy moisture with this but it is all out to sea at this point. we are looking good. we will see high pressure take the lead and keep control over the course of the next couple of days. you're witness weather seven day forecast featuring mid 80's today, tomorrow, saturday, sunday, but does look like a few more clouds come in saturday and sunday. that is a new warm front starting to lift to the north but we are getting a nice quiet couple days, maybe a shower or pop up storm on monday but it is still just a question mark. we will let you know. in the meantime it will be a great day for orr at the shore. poor kathy has been dealing with late weather. she will show off new beach games in ocean city toy day on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 and 6:00 if you want to say he

for today, 85 degrees in kutztown, reading 86. lancaster, 84. glass borough, 87.85. 85 for millville and dover. sea isle 82 handle breeze. atlantic city, same thing lots of sunshine. breezy during the day. the mountains, looks nice, 78 degrees under a mostly sunny sky. high, thin clouds. the jersey shore, sitting on the sand, 78 degrees. you'll see a lot of sunshine out there, just a few high, thin clouds, 82 degrees is the forecasted high down the shore. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 94 for monday that starts what appears to be heat wave number two. hazy hot and humid, breezy, 94. tuesday, hot and humid, thunderstorms, 96. feels-like temperatures landfall like 100 degrees come tuesday arch. wednesday, threat of showers and thunderstorms, 92. thursday, the numbers pull back a little bit, but muggy, high of 86. friday, 86, saturday, 87. we keep the pattern going where the weekends are nice and sunny and all the miserable weather hams during the week. >> paul mccartney returns to the stage after a month. he performed last night in albany, new york. h

severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 6:15 for all of these towns, drug kutztown, also fleetwoodoyer town, pennsburg, coopersberg and south white hall until 6:15. ninety-two in philadelphia 84 in millville. 90 degrees still in dover. look at cool air coming in behind this cold front, cleveland 66 degrees, that is a refreshing change. buffalo, new york 73. state college sitting at 77. future weather shows a line moving through right around seven or 8:00 moving along that i-95 corridor through trenton, philadelphia, extending on the jersey side and then sweeps through and falls apart through south jersey. tomorrow we have clouds giving way to clearing, pretty much every where over the course of the day. we are looking at heat and humidity tonight, oppressive but tomorrow, turning pleasant. the air mass will be much more comfortable. during the evening, showers and storms ending overnight low of 73. during the day tomorrow 84 about clearing skies and on the exclusive eyewitness weather seven day forecast and shore cast looking good as we head towards the weekend and then hot gannon

so right now around the kutztown area, moving toward allentown in the next 15 minutes.gie area watching out for very heavy rain severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15. toward the pocono mountains, we're looking at some showers moving out of carbon county but monroe county looking at activity but nothing is severe there. so what about the timing if you're stepping outdoors right now in center city, it's hazy, hot and humid. gusty storms once again firing up right now. north and west threw about 7:00 o'clock. then as we move toward the seven to 9:00 o'clock time frame if you're making some plans, that's when most of the activity starts to approach the philadelphia i-95 corridor and then as we move into 9:00 toward midnight, storms moving into south jersey as well as southern sections of delaware. once again we could have gusty winds, some lightning perhaps small hail out of any of the thunderstorms that develop in your backyard. 93 hazy hot and humid today. that was the high temperature above the average for this time of year which is 87. but the record, it is safe. well

we're going to check some regional temperatures. 66 in kutztown.adelphia, kind of our urban heat island. but in collegeville it's 63. it's 67 in swart moamplet it's 68-degrees up in perc situate. let's get a little closer to the shore. it's 78-degrees in stone harbor. this is where jenny will be tomorrow. i think it will be a similar today tomorrow. in smyrna, delaware, it's 78-degrees. due points are down. it's come if i outside. tomorrow is 10. the nine on the saturday is looking good. on sunday we get to a high of 83 degrees. it looks like we'll see some sunshine and perhaps be able to hold off the rain until later on in the day. maybe even not until nighttime and that would make for a pretty nice weekend. so it's looking better this forecast for the weekend. it is improving, but you know the humidity is coming what bac. when, by early next week. i've got a lot to get to. 76, if you're heading past route 1 city avenue, big delay, the accident has been moved to the shoulder so things starting to clear out. if you are 202. you can see the stretch

one thing about this is it kutztown on the temperatures.e area well off to the west there are showers we are not expecting any here we are expecting a day to day similar to tomorrow. so sun and clouds but maybe heavier at times on the clouds. temperatures 74 in philadelphia right now. we will be warming up today all the way to 84 degrees. eighty-three tomorrow but 94 by wednesday, nicole. >> ninety-four, scorcher. that is it for "eyewitness news" this morning follow us on our web site at cbs philly.com. i'm nicole brewer make it announcer: when you see this symbol you know you're watching a show that's educational and informational. the cbs dream team& it's epic. narrator: today on lucky dog... brandon: i'm not going to force you. you've got to want to do it. narrator: ...climbing a mountain... brandon: find the exit. go on. narrator: ...swimming to shore... brandon: all the way out. all the way out. narrator: ...resisting temptation... brandon: the trash can is full of fun smells for a puppy. narrator: ...and even making new friends every