Thursday's severe weather threat increases with damaging winds, hail possible

So, a live look at four different cameras, all of them live. They look pretty clear. When we were looking up at New York City, the mayor, as he was trying to talk in Brooklyn, was just being pelted by rain. We know a lot of this weather is expected to move into this area. And maybe it is raining. We just can't tell. Scott Williams is here to tell us what to expect. I see a lot of warnings and watches on Doppler. Yeah, we're watching this area of low pressure that's finally approaching the Delaware Valley. There's a little twist, a little spin in that, so we can't rule out an isolated tornado even later on this afternoon. Right now we do have a severe thunderstorm warning south and west. Of Delaware in Cecil County, Maryland, and that's lifting to the Northeast at about 25 miles per hour. The main threat with that right now is some quarter sized hail, so that morning goes until 115. We'll watch that move up the I-95 corridor some heavy rain in Lancaster County as well as Berks County, but most of the heaviest rain has been lifting on off into portions of New York City. So we're going to watch all this activity kind of pivot to the North and East over the next several hours. So there's that severe thunderstorm warning just south and west of Newcastle County, Delaware, producing some of that quarter-sized hail and some gusty winds. Scale of 1 to 5, it's a level 2. Across the heart of the Delaware Valley for some scattered severe thunderstorms. The main threat will be some damaging wind gusts, some hail, and maybe a brief isolated tornado because there's some spin, some twist in the atmosphere. To look at that, we look at the helicity. That tells us a little bit of that shear component in the atmosphere. We have a little bit of shear across the area, so that's why we can't rule out an isolated brief tornado. Temperatures. We'll be mild, upper 50s to around 60 this afternoon. But looking at some of those scattered showers, maybe a rumble of thunder out there. So once again, we're going to be timing the system out through the afternoon. And then that cold air moves in for the next several days. It's going to feel like December, so get your heavier coats and jackets. We'll update this later in the broadcast. Back over to you. Right near the freezing mark. We're going to be feeling it here in a couple of days. All right. Thank you, Scott. We appreciate it.