It was another warm morning followed by record heat in the afternoon on Wednesday.

Our forecast high of 95° for Philadelphia would break the record of 94° set back in 1962. We saw mostly sunny skies during the day but an approaching cold front gives us the potential for strong to severe thunderstorms late Wednesday afternoon into the evening.

The showers and thunderstorms will begin to pop up mid-afternoon before reaching Philadelphia after 5 p.m. and continuing through the night.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for the entire region until 9 p.m.

Widespread severe weather is not expected, but we could see some isolated strong to severe storms with damaging hail and damaging winds.

The cold front passing through will deliver a big change for Thursday which will be rainy and cool with a high of just 62°, more than 30 degrees cooler than Wednesday.

The cool weather keeps coming. We get a break from the wet weather Friday, but it’ll be mostly cloudy with a high of just 63°.

Then rain is due on Saturday along with chilly conditions and a high of 57°. The rain continues into Sunday morning, but we may see it break in the afternoon for a mostly cloudy afternoon with a high of 65°.

Memorial Day Monday is looking a lot drier than it did just a couple days ago.

It’s looking to be mostly cloudy with a slight chance of a shower and warmer with a high of 74°.

Then, it’s back to the 80s as a warm up next week starts Tuesday. We’ve got 80s for the balance of next week.

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