6 live double scan and meteorologist, david murphy. >> no big surprises on stormtracker 6 live double scan, on the broadcast we showed you future tracker 6 from the western suburbs and that is what we have right now, and we are calling for the first lightning strikes, from that cell passing west of reading, lets go ahead tighter and there are lighter cells from south jersey and moving through philadelphia, this one now is past the city, a little heavier downpour at the leading edge and that lasts five minutes, and then lighter stuff and drier stuff and the movement of this is from south to north from western chester county and up into berks county. have you what we call a training affect, one heavy cell and then a break and then another one and it's areas that get into this kind of pattern that see poor drainage flooding as we move towards the system. areas in kutztown and reading are receiving the heavy downpours now. can you see the first coming through and more coming up behind that. down in south jersey and delaware, we get finished with the current batch and if you are in philade

stormtracker 6 double scan. we have no real significant rain out there. there's a couple sprinkles and showers to the south of philadelphia mainly over south jersey and cape may county. you see some over the delaware bay headed to salem county and cumberland county and every off to the norp area above philadelphia appears to be fall ago part at this point. as we look outside, plenty of clouds out there. perhaps a couple roads are a little on the damp side because of those sprinkles and showers and you may have some stuff falling in parts of southern tell dell and south jersey. 57 right now in philadelphia. dew point 49. indication air is drying out a little as there's a spread between temperature and dew point. and winds south east at 3. winds not much of a problem this morning. future tracker 6 showing you cloud cover will be a factor today. every now and then we have sunny breaks and occasionally there will be another round of sprinkles and showers coming in perhaps during the afternoon and early evening hours. by 5:00 you can see the model is not doing

looking live at stormtracker 6 double scan tonight a soggy start to the weekend. we'll get underway shortly for most of us. tonight, although heavy rain is on the way we know the entire weekend will not be a washout. and friday night, jim is off, i'm monica malpass and the big story on "action news" is heavy rain moving into our area over the next hour. we're live on sky6 right now looking at penn's landing and we're about to get a wet start to the weekend. showers moving into the region already. when will they clear out. meteorologist cecily tynan live at the big board with more, hi, cecily. >> hi, monica. stormtracker 6 double scan showing showers moving into western suburbs right on schedule. it's still dry here in philadelphia. however you can see malvern has been getting showers. reading, pottstown, coatsville, oxford, lancaster, all of these are moving north and east. they should be moving into philadelphia around midnight. and the bigger picture on stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that this is really a broken line of showers all ahead of a very poten

not causing a delay yet dave. >> couple light sprichingzls and showers on stormtracker 6 double scan., pushing into salem county new jersey. a little bit of additional shower activity pushing through kent county over the next hour and cape may county seeing a bit of that as well. up north the stuff in northern bucks county is dipd kind of dying out. maybe damp roads through here as well. generally speaking not a big issue. i'm not going over board with rain gear today. could be a shoty shower through the day especially generatener the afternoon. cool enough for jackets. most of the kids are fine without any heavy duty rain gear. 59 by 9:00 this morning already in mid 50s in most spots. 64 by noon and by 3:00 68 slt high today and mostly cloudy skies and sunny breaks through the day and possibility of spotty shower here owe or there and not a washout. finally down the airport looking for all green aircraft on the big board that's what we have this morning. though there's rain reported in atlanta now perhaps delays building down there later on tam. >> thank you, david, going on to "heal

meteorologist, adam joseph is at the big board following the system with stormtracker 6 live double scan. >> this afternoon guys we have a couple of light showers west of the philadelphia, but philadelphia south and east, breaks of sun this afternoon but a healthy amount of cloud cover, as we look at double scan live, you see a weak system coming through away from coatesville and oxford away from philadelphia. up the northeast extension into the lehigh valley. have you to hit the windshield wiper once or twice, it's barely dampening the ground. right now that low is just north of cincinnati. in the tennessee valley tornado watches are in affect and there will pivot to the north and west and we'll get heavy rain and a rumble of thunder but the severe weather will stay to the west and will not follow the system from the ohio valley. rain comes in overnight tonight and some thunderstorms, the heaviest between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m., when most of us are in dream land, that is a good thing, also good news, it's offshore out of our region in time for tomorrow morning's rush hour, we'll talk more a

stormtracker 6 live double scan shows you that along with an increase in cloud cover comes the threat of very light rain and i'll go in tighter and most of this is on the other side of delaware back in the state of maryland and smyrna is beneath this. most of this is highlighted in shades of green and there is a lot of holes in the rain and that indicates a light rainfall on the way. maybe enough to make the roads wet, if it holds on long enough. maybe it may start picking up more of that. the areas i would look for now is newcastle county, delaware and southern chester county over the next hour to two hours. slow moving and light at this point, we have breaks in the clouds and sunshine through the morning, with the rain moving in from the southwest, there is not a lot of it, it's accompanied by thick clouds. 68 in philadelphia, feeling pretty comfortable with light winds and milder temperatures, as we go later in the afternoon, a high of 75 and that low of 60, both of those numbers well above average. we'll take a closer look at the next round of rain and those possible thunderstorms

>> stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that most of our region right now is rain free, however thes of the wet weather has been over ocean county, new jersey, today, and stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have one clutter over forked river and the garden state parkway and route 9 moving towards seaside heights, no lightning strike as soesh created with this, but heavy rain. >> this is what happened there today. they got heavy downpours, they also had hail across the region, and also just shortly after 2:00, this was spotted off the coast of seaside heights, this was posted on the barnegat bay island, you can see the waterspout, there was a cluster of severe weather, and fortun e fortunately nothing severe now but showers are on the way. >> 66 down from the mild high of 70 and allentown 62 and mill very 60 and wilmington 61 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing the low pressure is spinning across northwestern pennsylvania and this will slowly drift over us and offshore and then it stalls there. this will keep us really under the gun for showers as we head thro

stormtracker 6 live double scan showing you we have got some sprinkles out there. mainly south and west of philadelphia, we are expecting and allowing for some very light rain and drizzle for the afternoon hours, the steadiest of that moisture moves in later tonight and it's a cool feel outside and we'll show the picture, here is the cam at fairmount park, the moisture moves in later today. as we look at the highlights, and what we are expecting today and beyond. it's cooler and we are talking about the friday night that will begin in a few hours. it's cooler today and we are dealing with an easterly wind, any time you have an easterly fetch off the atlantic you have cooler than average temperatures, sustained at 7 miles per hour in trenton and 6 miles per hour in dover. friday night soon upon us that means friday night football, if you have games expected later on today, it will be a raw and rainy feel, an october chill. the temperature around 60 degrees and upper 50s as we get into 10:00 tonight. neighborhood numbers north and west of town, slatington 55 and ches

. >> stormtracker 6 double scan shows you dry so far as we look outside. clouds will build as the morning goes on. early on we could see some sunshine and parts of the region. there's adventure aquarium in camden new jersey and everything is tank ill since the winds died down. temperatures cool. 55 in philadelphia, 52 wilmington, 47 allentown i added always on 7 day for this portion of your sdmrooen hd. 59a aisle city and 55 dover and 52 wilmington. future tracker 6 shows you clouds will gather from south to north as we go through the morning so by lunchtime most of us will be under pretty good sleet of clouds. there could be drizzle mixed in as well. future tracker holding offer any showers until later in the day and this evening. i'll allow for a little bit of sprinkle or shower to develop really any time after lunchtime as we go through the afternoon. daytime stuff shoulding light though. we go later into the evening and there's a chance of bit more of this building in and steadier stuff will be down south. but can't totally guarantee we don't get somet

here is the picture with stormtracker 6 live double scan radar showing you it's quiet across much ofe lehigh valley, the good news today is that the sun is making a come back on our friday. sky 6 hd we are in wilmington, delaware, a gorgeous shot there and plenty of sun overhead, these temperatures are rebounding today, we are warmer than we were this same time 24 hours ago. we were stuck in the 50s with the clouds and gray conditions, wednesday a high temperature of 58 and yesterday we only climbed up to 57, and keep in mind average for us is 64 and we are already above that at this hour. peak gusts over the past several days, close to 25 miles per hour. 65 in philadelphia, and the dew point is 44 and the winds out of the north-northwest at 14 miles per hour, and the northwesterly wind is down sloping east of the appalachians, temperatures are warmer in the city than they were the same time yesterday. >> allentown 63 and 63 in reading and beach haven 67, and 65 in wilmington and trenton coming in at 62 and the coast in wildwood, 63. here is satellite 6 along with action radar, it's

stormtracker 6 live double scan we see a little bit of rain out there yet.rom the north and if i go ahead and take a closer view, one area being affected by this is from trenton and parts of southern buck county back up towards sayerville. you can detect in the movement of this, it's not just pushing to the south and east but also starting to curl a little bit back to the east. that means the rain is kind of moving like this, that is good for you in the western suburbs and doylestown and landsdale, that rain is having a hard time holding together and i hope that the rest of the afternoon any rain we get will be to the east and we'll spare the areas to the west. here is the wide view, in allentown, montco or chester, are you probably done at this point. as we look outside we have cloudy skies and we saw that on the action cam and a lots of changing leaves and they are starting to fall. this is a pretty picture, i have to call the guy to clean out my gutters. it's a sign of the times. we are cool, winds outs of the northwest at 20 miles per hour. are you looki

as you see on stormtracker 6 live double scan a pipeline is of moisture and it's going to be on and off with the intensity of the rain overnight. lets look region by region at street level, we see the batch of heavy rain just east of center city over the river from cherry hill to haddonfield to riverside, it's beginning to lessen in intensity in philadelphia, and that is the way it will remain overnight. you'll get the burst of heavy rain and then turn to lighter showers and no lightning strikes now from this vantage point and no lightning strikes north and west just a steady rain in much of lancaster and chester county and all the way up to northern buck county and the lehigh valley just wet roadways, we had heavy rain pass through early this afternoon, so far up to 2 inches from lancaster and into downtown reading and north into pottsville and because of that the streams are running high and just the flood advisory for a few hours with ponding on the roadways. it's tropical and warm, 71 in millville and 72 in allentown, and a little bit cooler to the west, coming in at 65. everyone is

we are dry outside according to stormtracker 6 live double scan.to get outside. not a bad idea to wear sunscreen, the sun is lower but it's a good idea if are you going to be out there. the story is how warm it's going to be, pleasant with slightly lower humidity. and there are downpour reducing showers. maybe tomorrow night and early thursday morning. 77 degrees with no such trouble. the dew point above the threshold, and 63 is the threshold at 77 miles per hour, a fair amount of cloud cover out there. enough holes in the cloud cover to allow sunshine and rain out to the west of us and it's a slow moving system and it will take until sometime tomorrow until we have to worry about that rain arriving in our neck of the woods. everybody will get toasty today. 76 in allentown and 77 reading and close to that in trenton and wilmington and mid to low 70s down towards the shore and 74 in cape may is the cold spot. a high of 80 at 3:00 today and still holding on to 77 by 5:00. and down to 72 by 7:00 and keep in mind it's on the muggy side and an overnight

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. >> no, it wasn't, had a little predawn rain, looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan now, we are dry although areas east of philadelphia, north of atlantic city now are still experiencing a couple of showers and some of these have gotten fairly heavy and most of the heavy stuff, including a little bolt of lightning popping up north of seaside heights, getting ready to go to belmar and off the coast. this popped up in the last half hour or so, but it looks like it is scooting quickly off the coast. are you looking at a thunderstorm and some heavier downpours up the coast, going out wider again, this is what we are looking at, earlier in fa fairmount park we had cloudy skies and the dew point is 49 and the winds are light at 6 miles per hour. probably not going much higher than that today. 62 in trenton and 64 in wilmington and mid-60s down the shore and that rain is getting up towards beach haven and atlantic city. future track er 6 showing that e are on the lookout for additional showers to pop up as a spoke of energy comes through the region, however the latest model runs sugges

stormtracker 6 double scan shows you spotty showers around. these south jersey pushing away from route 55 and towards upper half of ac expressway. more popping through cape may county and another cell south of dover jumping delaware bay and get into cape may later some roads may be wet because of early sprinkles and showers that came through over the last couple hours. more stuff out west. as we go through the day. mainly cloud jury skies and perhaps a little damp at times with so they passing shower. 57 right now as you head out the door. dry in most areas. 58 wilmington and 54 allentown and 55 millville. as we roll through the day 50 by 9:00 and 64 by noon and upper 0s, four or five hire that yesterday and we're feting facebook and twitter pictures in from some of followers margie have you seen these a lot of pumpkin stands up and running. it will feel like autumn today. when we head inside tomorrow is looking more like summer than autumn. i'll have details open the warm-up coming up. >> let's talk about traffic. big problems starting in new

stormtracker 6 live double scan we have some rain across the center portion of the region. lets go in closer here and see that those rain drops are falling through philadelphia and it's coming in off the ocean on the other side of wrights town and trenton and philadelphia, and norristown may be getting out from under this shortly and a heavier cell to the south and west of philadelphia, now pushing away from delaware county and entering newcastle county and in wilmington you are about to get hit by that. as we look wider across the region, this is nuisance precipitation down to the south churning itself in. we have cloudy skies out there and with that low close by, are you also looking at fairly windy conditions and when the action cam was out by the art center, can you see the wind moving the plans around and the gray skies socking us in as well. 55 is the current temperature, you'll want a couple of layers, it's cool and windy. sustained winds up to 20 miles per hour and gusting higher than that at times. it has the damp feel, 55 in philadelphia and 56 in allentown and 54

stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the line of storms stretching out from areas in the great lakes to the southern plains, this continues to work its way eastward overnight and for the first half of the weekend. waez look at what is ahead, we have sun and clouds ahead and sun giving way to increasing clouds, the precipitation will arrive in the overnight hours and close to dawn, as we get into sunday, a bit of a fall chill in the air. take a closer look and tell you about that in future tracker 6, when we come back with the accuweather forecast. >> stay on top of the changing weather situation with the new 6abc.com, visit 6abc.com/weather for storm tracker 6 rads ar and the hourly and seven-day forecast. and our collection of weather related photos and videos. in other news now, a close call at a new jersey rite-aid, after a car slammed into the store in voorhees, the gaping hole was visible from chopper 6, the vehicle slammed into the store on centennial boulevard, and we are told that a woman hit the gas pedal while trying to park and the car crashed in the area where the cashier

cecily tynan is monitoring the storms with stormtracker 6 live double scan. >> monica and rick it's an afternoon of on and off tropical downpours and it's not over yet. i'm tracking a band of heavy rain moving on to baltimore and right now the focus of the heavy downpour is north of philadelphia, there is this one band moving through pottstown across route 100 and the northeast extension near allentown and we have heavy downpours right now and there is a flood advisory in affect for lancaster and berks county until 10:00 tonight, those areas are getting 2 inches of rain. another area of concern is around knew hope crossing route 202, you'll get the heavy downpours and really racing up to the north at 30 to 40 miles per hour and the whole system is sluggishly moving towards the coast, this is the wider view of stormtracker 6 live double scan and this is really the next band of heavy rain rotating through the next few hours in baltimore and as we widen the view, what is going on is low pressure rotating over the midwest, and then this whole cold front and what this is doing is pulling up

. >> we'll clear out completely by friday, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that there is a band of some heavy rain that is beginning to move offshore near the toms river area and we have heavy rain in the salem county area 15 minutes ago and now it's over smyrna. and you can see how this is all moving to the south and west. the reason why we are stuck in the clouds and damp dreary weather, is a low pressure off the coast of delmarva, this is what is just kind of spinning, it's cut off from the jet stream and high pressure to the north then is causing the system from moving much. and tomorrow during the day it is working up to the north and east and it brings us a slow, drying trend, it's wet and cool with temperatures in the 50s and wind gusts currently out of the north from 23 to 32 miles per hour. it's a raw day, a great day for indoor activities. the timeline showing what so expect from now and 8:00 this is where we get the steady rain moving into the atlantic, from tonight into early thursday, on and off showers, thursday morning still showers around, by the afternoon winds

to fall, the rain is expected to make a mess of the commute and adam joseph has the latest from stormtracker 6 live double scan. >> reporter: rick and monica, behind you sky 6 shows you a glow in the horizon, the clouds are breaking up and a thin line of showers are moving east and west of philadelphia, so double scan live radar, from pennington to writestowns and it's about to end in center city and drying up to the west and the showers are beginning to break apart in southern areas of new jersey and delaware with some communities there not seeing a drop of rain, what to expect over the n few hours, brief showers passing through and off the coast by 8:00 and the bigger story with this front that passed through is not the rain, it's the crashing temperatures and eventually some late clearing. temperatures are falling fast this afternoon, 1:00 we hit the high of 70 degrees and an hour later 66 and 60 at 4:00 and right now we have dropped to 54 degrees in philadelphia and 53 in buffalo and even a bigger drop in temperature is brewing in the northwestern part of canada, cambridge bay, 2 below z

stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the tropical moisture is ahead of the cold front, and it's moisture is moving up from the south and the actually cold front is moving slowly to the coast, this will be with us on and off through the overnight hours, before the front clears the coast by tomorrow morning, timing out the rain between now and 8:00 tonight, heavy rain with a few embedded gusty thunderstorms possible, not completely dry and the system reloads tonight and midnight, we'll have more details, and when we clear out in the full accuweather forecast. >>> now, to the deepening fears of the ebola virus. here are the latest developments tonight. a second nurse in dallas, texas, has contracted the disease after treating thomas duncan before he died. amber vincent will be transferred to atlanta for treatment and she flew on a commercial flight from cleveland, and meanwhile, president obama has canceled a campaign trip to meet with his cabinet about ebola and the fight that needs to take place in the u.s. and overseas. >> i am confident we can prevent an outbreak of the disease here in

here is stormtracker 6 live double scan you can see a lot of high, thin clouds in new england and these temperatures still climbed above average, part of the reason why is because of this cold front moving over the great lakes down through the ohio valley and this works its way eastward into wednesday. showing you as you wake up tomorrow morning at 7:30, it's mostly cloudy but dry for the commute tomorrow. as i advance this into noon on wednesday, you can see a pencil thin line of showers moving across areas in allentown eastward into the delaware and lehigh valley, wednesday 5:00 in the evening and mostly cloudy with a spot shower around and most of the activity is mid-day, and not a lot of precipitation calling anywhere from a .10 to .25 inch of rainfall, it's partly cloudy tonight a mild night. 55 in allentown and 61 in philadelphia and here is the accuweather forecast four day at 4:00. tomorrow 69 and thursday 60 degrees but brighter and friday breaks of sunshine and 58 and saturday is halloween, and maybe showers late friday night after 8:00, 9:00, look at this temperature on satur

stormtracker 6 live showing that we don't have organized showers. it's misting out here. high humidity. this is what is causing the low clouds and fog to form. trenton and wilmington advise ability avisibility is 10 miles. a quarter of mile in poconos. the fog thickens as we head into the overnight hours. 7:30, low clouds and fog, in the areas north and west. a few sprinkles. south jersey and delaware doesn't look like a big fog problem. i would allow extra time north and west. fog could take several hours to burn offer. burn off. the double scan is showing a potent cold front stretching from chicago down to the gulf. illinois, tennessee and florida, at this area late with the temperatures cooling there are numerous tornado watches in effect. that system is heading in our direction. i'll let you know how in the seven-day forecast. >> sticking with weather the officials confirmed you that it was a tornado that flipped these cars, ripped apart houses and killed one man in arkansas yesterday. it was one of two twisters that cut down. the last midwest. the winds reached 100 m

lear we go with the "stormtracker," showing high clouds off shore.here we go with the forecast, showing you the current numbers out there these numbers really warm. extended forecast, watching some rain to the north. it will be mild out there and the rain we'll keep an eye on. some of it could be approaching the bay area. mostly cloudy skies, showers likely, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, we'll be dry, fairly warm. friday, the developing weather pattern with the rainfall to the north. close enough to the bay area. it warrants a slight chance of a shower, we are watching that forecast closely. but for us, right now, it looks like the main focus of the rainfall will be to our north. monday, rainfall about 2/100th of an inch. they were not expecting much. here we go with the forecast model at 11:00. rainshowers very scattered out there and then by 2:00. partly cloudy skies and by 5:00, the rain probably long gone, setting the stage for a warmer forecast, that will be for tuesday, wednesday and thursday. >> >> temperatures for tomorrow, 60s and 70s, oakla

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as we look at stormtracker 6 double scan there's a couple of light sprinkles and showers around. you see some over the delaware bay and state of delaware and bits and pieces of green in montgomery county. it's all light stuff. if you happen to see raindrops on windshield on moisture on the roadways this morning that'sps what's causing it. as we look outside, we have sky6. and we're now looking at cloudy skies over philadelphia for the most part. and staying mainly cloudy today with sunny breaks. that's the way it's looking. 57 currently is your temperature in independent, dew point 48. and you see the numbers are cool across the region with most of us in the 50s this morning. i'm bringing on new feature this morning we'll go with always on day part of the forecast you can get an idea of how the rest of the day is looking. as we look at future tracker 6 it looks like it remains fairly cloudy today. not real wet. every now and then a spotty shower. after 3 or 4:00 i can see more of the stuff popping up and same sort of showers that we have seen overnight and that we're seeing right

stormtracker 6 double scan shows you we're dry. as we look outside we're looking at some braexz in the clouds early. there's the action cam live down at penns landing and ben franklin bridge in the distance and everything tranquil this morning with light winds that's one change in the forecast from yesterday. winds not as strong. calm winds now with temperature of 55 degrees in philadelphia. some suburbs are cooler than that. we have a couple of spots that are in the 40s right now. and i'm going ahead and bringing in the always on 7 day for you if you're watching in hd and the clouds over take us. even the lehigh valley gets overcast by lunchtime and that pattern continues straight through the rest of the afternoon and into the evening. eventually we'll see some showers develop and there could be drizzle popping in as the day goes on and just about anywhere. and especially after lunchtime and even some of the showers are possible a little further north of the model suggesting and best chance is in the evening hours down south. and

lets take a look at stormtracker 6 live double scan around the area, we are dry, and looking good, wey tomorrow, so today is a good day to head on outside. lets go on now and show you what is looks like down the shore, we are in cape may, and a beautiful afternoon, people are walking along the beach, we have lots of clouds and sunshine mixing through, and the temperatures are treating us right. lets look at your accuweather highlights. two warm days in the seven-day forecast, today and tomorrow, and then cool changes just in time for the weekend. starting with the current temperature, 65 degrees, feeling good right now, the dew point 49, nice and low, the winds are southwesterly at 7 and the pressure is just 30.03 inches. satellite 6 along with action radar showing the one fly in the ointment is the cloud cover, we are watching them stream in, for the most part high, thin clouds and sunshine is filtering through. a nice day despite the cloud cover, we are getting sunshine, showers are well out to the west, that will impact us come tomorrow, we are ahead of that front, bringing the sou

>> stormtracker 6 live showing the system that brought us two days of dreary weather moving away. tracking return of sunshine and brief and pretty dramatic warm-up in the accuweather 7-day forecast. >> ducis rogers with eagles facing challenge on the ground against cardinals when "action facing challenge on the ground against cardinals when "action news" continues tonight - ( helicopter whirring ) - ( roars ) ( siren wails ) ( pop music playing ) ♪ when you're ready ♪ ready, ready, ready ♪ come and get it ♪ get it, get it ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na na na na ♪ ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours. here and only here. ♪ come and get it. >> we have breaking news tonight from delaware. firefighters are battling this raging blaze in cranston heights, new castle county. crews were called to 2755 sky lark road and found a two story home engulfed in flames and that hour no reports of any injuries but that gellin' is a loss. three people are dead after an airplane and

that's view of center city sky line and let's go over to stormtracker 6 double scan. heaviest pulling through now resumed to southern portions of viewing area you can see the line of of yellows extending from central portions of south jersey all the way down through delaware and delaware dell bay region. all that is pushing east. this is western atlantic county, hammonton, buena, shades of orange and yellow here. this is steady to moderate rain falling down. ponding on the roadway. because it's moving quickly we're not seeing any flooding. just dealing with steady to moderate rain now. the idea is for gradual drying as the afternoon wears on. 10, 11:00 this morning, 54, 5 5rbgs cloudy skies, patchy foingz, periods of rain. some heavy. we get to lunchtime hopefully at that point everything is working its way out to sea. cloudy skies. we see drying taking place. 55 degrees. so here's the headlines. saturday is damp. sunday belter, more showers arrive as we get monday and wednesday. matter of fact wednesday not looking pretty at all. several days in 7 day forecast after

stormtracker 6 live double scan, we have got a little bit of rain to the west of us. it looks like reading will pick up some of this. maybe over the next half hour or so it's mostly light rain, chester county and places like oxford and coatesville, this is out to the west and slow to push towards the east. as we look outside, we are looking east at bucks county, eaglesville, all the leaves are starting to change, and we love the shots this time of year. it gives us the sense of the changing seasons across the wide region, a pretty shot from the chopper. your winds are west northwest at 12 miles per hour. a little bit of a breeze, these are the temperatures up north, the affects of the cool front pushing closer and closer to the region. knocking the temperatures down to 59 in lancaster but not all that far to the east 69 in philadelphia and 69 in wilmington and trenton. but this cooler air will move towards the shore the rest of the afternoon and into the evening. in terms of precipitation, it looks like future tracker is still consistent with the idea that the norther

as we look at stormtracker live double scan most of the area cloudy. it is chilly right now and some scattered light showers around the regular. a few sprinkles that are falling along the garden state parkway. and also a little back near dover and smyrna. heading west, honey brook, p pottstown and reading seeing some drops. it is chilly. 59 in trenton, 59 in allentown. 59 in reading. 60 degrees in philadelphia. so everyone within 1 or 2 degrees of each other this even. and that's the way it's going to remain through the overnight hours, pretty uniform temp. the clouds stream in, a frontal boundary draped back to st. louis. you see this perfect west-to-east flow. we are kind of stuck with the clouds, stuck with the showers. as you head to some of the high school football games this evening, some of them a watch-out or too sloppy. it is raw and chilly with a couple of on and off showers. generally it is fairly draw for most of the game. 59 at 7:00, 10:00, 57 degrees. it is after midnight the bulk of the steady rain comes in. 11:00, a couple of showers in

changes up ahead, you can see that on stormtracker 6 live double scan, we are tracking a piece of energy, an area of low pressure forming off the coast of the carolinas and moisture developing off the great lakes. we'll watch these two pieces as we get into our weekend, but in between that time it's mostly cloudy and a bid of a squeeze play, we'll talk about what to expect as the afternoon and the weekend wears on. it will be a mostly dry halloween, a damp start on your saturday and also turning windy over the weekend and as we got into the weekend we are tracking the coldest air so far this season. we'll take a closer look at the numbers and letd you know what to expect for the trick or treat halloween with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. >> thank you. >>> meantime the halloween celebration is already in full swing for many children in the region, children show off their costumes in havertown today. parades were held here and other elementaries schools across haverford today. they were sent home with a half day to get an early start with trick or treating. "action news" wou

. >> a little blustery out there but mild and sunny, stormtracker 6 live double scan, shows you thate dry as we look outside. the camera is bouncing around and sky 6 taking a look at independence hall on the mall, and you see old glory really blowing in the wind, the wibd is swirling around the skyscrapers and a couple of highlights today, it's mild but on the windy side. tomorrow, well enjoy this mild air we have in place today because tomorrow we'll start to see cooler air march in. 72 is the current temperature in philadelphia and your winds are out of the west at 21 miles per hour. definitely noticeable as you head outside and the gusts are higher than that. 72 in delaware, wildwood and the airport in atlantic city. and current sustained winds across the region are noticeable. philadelphia is a higher number. 13 in allentown and 17 in reading. but gusts are adding to that. we get guflts in the mid to upper 20s straight through the evening rush, if you are in a high-profile vehicle, hold on to that steering wheel if you are on a bridge. we are looking at the numbers easing back a

>> stormtracker 6 live showing the system that brought us two days of dreary weather moving away. tracking return of sunshine and brief and pretty dramatic warm-up in the accuweather 7-day forecast. >> ducis rogers with eagles facing challenge on the ground against cardinals when "action facing challenge on the ground against cardinals when "action news" continues tonight >> we have breaking news tonight from delaware. firefighters are battling this raging blaze in cranston heights, new castle county. crews were called to 2755 sky lark road and found a two story home engulfed in flames and that hour no reports of any injuries but that gellin' is a loss. three people are dead after an airplane and helicopter klied in midair near frederick municipal airport in maryland the crash happened 3:40 this afternoon two men in the plane survived because they were able to deploy para chutes. not clear if all three people that died were in the chopper or somebody on the ground was killed nearly 200 local high school students are scrambling tonight after they learned act test they took went mis

lets look at stormtracker 6 live double scan around the region, he wouldn't take you either -- we are area and looking good, i'm giving you a dry day. enjoying pretty shots of the foliage out there. more so up to the north, as we look at pictures that people are sending in, very viewer pictures from kelly in spring city, look at the foliage she is seeing there, gorgeous colors, not quite at peak yet and brandywine country sent me this one, a gorgeous shot and oranges, i am enjoying the pictures you are sending us on twitter and facebook. 70 in philadelphia not bad out there, a lot of cloud cover, but still not a bad afternoon. dew point is 56 and winds easterly at 9. and 70 in philadelphia and are you in the upper 60s in the lehigh valley, 65 in trenton and atlantic city 66 and 66 in wildwood and 64 in dover, satellite 6 along with action radar showing we have clouded up, we started with cloudy skies and then breaks of sunshine and now the clouds filled back in. all because of the upper level low offshore. we saw a few drops of drizzle yesterday. allentown partly sunny and 72 degrees,

but stormtracker 6 live double scan shows any showers north of toms river are starting to fade off the radar scope and it's just cloudy and cool across the area now. the storm is south and east of boston and cape cod, you can see the swirling of that low wrapping into the center of it. off nantucket, gusting to 36 in new york city and as far south as baltimore, still wind gusts near 23 miles per hour. stormtracker 6 live double scan all the precipitation for the most part is now in northern new england and the northern part of new york state. the low continues to finally pull away and it is being released by the river of air in the atmosphere in the jet stream to allow the sunshine to return. that is what we have when you look ahead, with sun and the winds relax and we make a run at the 70s. we'll tell you when it does push in brian in the full accuweather forecast. >> i love the 70s. >> good decade. >> stay on top of the changing forecast with the all new 6abc.com, go to 6abc.com/weather for storm tracker 6 radar and the hourly and seven-day forecast and the latest video from our "act

. >> that is right, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have nothing but sunshine in philadelphia. the clouds will break apart and we can keep the sunshine, and these clouds kind of break apart in our direction. staying dry and staying lots of sunshine, how about the temperatures, 64 degrees in martins creek and 67 in pottstown and saint david 67 and center city the temperatures are well above average, as they have been the past few days. new jersey 66 in browns mills and rowan university 70 and 67 in dover, delaware, as you are heading out right now looking at the day ahead, 71 for the high, normally we are at 66 degrees think temperatures are well above average and the overnight low is 66 tonight. we have a good looking day as far as temperatures are concerned but we are changing things in time for the weekend, go ahead and take the kids to the playground, it's a great day for it. mild by 1:00 p.m. 69 and 6:00 p.m. parking lot 61 degrees, we go from the 70s to the 60s to the 50s all during the weekend. we'll have that coming up. you hitting the playground rick? >> thank you. >>>

tomorrow promises to be nicer let's go to stormtracker 6 double scan. we'll show what you is going on light to moderate rains couple r couple zooms first stop willow grovr. yellows coming down at a steady clip. take it slow. little further southwest we don't get into chester county. kirkwood, cook rainville coatsville moderate rain and further south east and over to south jersey and there's not too much going on and there's places like fortescue and southwest portions of cumberland county and cape i may and atlantic countyes are dry. forecast for today. here's the day planner, cloud cover out here. periods of rain and/or showers during the morning hours. temperatures holding steady between 54 and 55 and during the afternoon mainly cloud write and damp and breezy and chilly and high temperatures topping out in upper 50s. that will change as well. pattern looks chilly this weekend as we have a pocket of cool canadian air. look what happens by monday. jet stream pulls north we get into southern high pressure system. that warms us up. matter of fact there's

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stormtracker 6 live double scan shows us that we are dry and chopper 6 hd got some nice pictures as webove the delaware river, some high clouds were streaking overhead and that is what you can expect to see this afternoon. the clouds getting more pronounced the last several hours. and how about that dew point, a nice low number, that indicates dry, crisp air and the winds are blowing around at 15 miles per hour, not as blustery as yesterday. 67 in the city, and 67 in wilmington and 67 increaseding. not too much variation, 65 in allentown and similar numbers in wildwood and the airport in atlantic city. winds in general not as strong as yesterday, we have some areas reporting single digit winds rights now, you feel them jump into the teens and that make its more blustery. the clouds are streaking across, not much to these clouds but out to the west we see thicker stuff and again over the next several hours, it might start to cloud up more. generally the flavor. majority of the day is mostly sunny and that is what we call it in allentown, 68 degrees and down the shore similar situation a

stormtracker 6 live double scan, around the region and can you see we are dry through the area.nkle pop through later on but not seeing anything at the moment, lets go outside and show you what is looks like right now, sky 6 is looking live and you can see the clouds at the airport and a few breaks of sun peeking through here or there and it's not too bad out there. temperatures of 71 degrees right now in philadelphia, the average high for this date is 72 and the temperatures treat us at average and the winds are easterly picking up at 10 miles per hour and the pressure is 30.04, it's a cool breeze out there. 71 in philadelphia, and 72 in allentown and 68 in reading and 65 in lancaster and 66, cooler on the beach in a.c., a good amount of cloud cover, they haven't had a chance to break through yet s satellite 6 along with action radar showing we are cloudy through the area, an upper level low pinwheeling, the showers are trying to come through the area, and we have been seen a whole lot. the chance is for a sprinkle here or there. not much to worry about. clouds and sunshine and

meanwhile the jet stream stormtrack quite active. just one system after another after another.oving in our direction. so we have unsettled active stormtrack that will bring us some periods of wet weather over the next several days although no continuous rainfall is expecte expected. now for the current system coming through by 5:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon we expect maybe up to 4/10s of an inch in the north bay mountains that is the wet east ream of the bay area. most location probably not see more than about tenth of an inch so light rainfall he convenient and someplaces in the inland east bay no muvrable rainfall at al all. meanwhile in the sierra there is not likely to be much measurable rainfall south of like tahoe where it's mainly dry but from tahoe northward we expect rainfall and very high elevation up above 8,000 feet may be light snow. back to the bay area overnight look for showers periods of rain. low pressure in the upper 50's to around 60. tomorrow we see high pressure in the afternoon which should be mainly dry. ranging from mid 60's at the coast to mid 70's in

stormtracker 6 double scan showing you it's quiet out here. no issues with precipitation.nfall earlier this morning moved offshore. it's nice and quiet, quleer, partly cloudy and that chill like walter was saying is on. channel 6 outside in sky6hd is looking at center city sky line on saturday night and not a whole lot of cloud cover to talk about and you will need extra layer if you step out on the town later tonight and for that matter, as we get into the second half of the weekend. and as we look at the accuweather live lineup it is all about the temperatures and how low they go tonight and tomorrow morning and eagles are at home at the linc. we have a preview as far as the temperatures are concerned. check out the numbers. tanersville 42 degrees. slatington 45. fleetwood also in the middle 40s. 47 pottstown and center city at this hour coming in at 53 after high today at philadelphia international coming in at 70. along the coast from tom's river down to the boardwalk temperatures in middle and upper 50s. hockessin 50. glassboro coming in in lower 50s satellite 6 along

. >> we'll let them go at it as we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan, the showers continue to spiralhrough the region and at times we have heavier downpours and other times some mist. right now be have a steady batch of showers in the western suburbs of philadelphia along the main line also along the conshohocken curve of the schuylkill expressway, and the blue route is wet through del care county, as you head north into chester county along 202 and as we head to the east and widen out you see pops of yellow with moderate rain, seaside heights was hammered yesterday in the order of 1 to 3 inches and surf city, and this continues to move from the north to the south and it makes it into burlington county and atlantic county. 56 allentown and 48 in the poconos and 55 in wilmington and with the wind out of the north today in edition to the rainfall, it chills you to the bone, winds 30 miles per hour in lancaster and mid-20s at the shore. can you see the spin as the low is developing to the east and that helps to drain the wind from the north and it wraps the moisture from the low and the

and stormtracker 6 live double scan show that there are showers in that same location, from wolmersdorfo lancaster crossing 202 and moving slowly from the north to the east. this is associated with an upper level low coming through. most of the region is dry. temperatures are closer to where they should be for this time of year. we were at 77 yesterday and today currently 69 and the humidity is a lot lower. millville 69 and sea isle city currently 70 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing us the cold front that came in yesterday and late last night moved off to the east and they are getting the rain in new england. we see clouds and generally the weather is settling down for the next few days. a good time of the year to look at fall foliage, it's peaking in the poconos and the northwest suburbs are looking good, modrate fall foliage and the turning of the leaves in south jersey and delaware, it will take a couple of weeks. and the big weather story is hurricane gonzalo, a category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds 140 miles per hour. you can see the eye clearly defi

let's look at stormtracker 6 double scan around the area sdwri now we're tracking a few wet days coming up in the week ahead. let's go outside and show what you it looks like. sky6 looking live patchy clouds as we look live in sky6 and hd at center city sky line for the most part high, thin, cirrus clouds. a look ahead, frost and freeze warnings in effect over the overnight hours and unsettled week ahead. cloudy and damp for significant time during 7 day and all clears up by the weekend. at least something to look forward to tonight i've been talking to people on facebook and this is pete whor sent in a sunset in williamstown. clouds have started to roll in since that time and colleen and rock lidge sent out a picture of all the leaves all over the ground. that's more the case now because of the gusty winds that we had today and some of those leaves could be a little frostee as you drive on them. tomorrow you need to be careful. let's look at wind gusts. nearly tropical storm force winds in the area. mount pocono clocked gusts at 38 miles an hour and wilmington 38 and reading 36 and in