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Significant Cooldown For Plains, East After This Weekend, Heatwave Brewing For Great Basin

Significant Cooldown For Plains, East After This Weekend, Heatwave Brewing For Great Basin

Well, the heat is certainly impressive today from Kansas to New Jersey as a huge dome of high pressure sits parked directly over Missouri, this has produced widespread 100s with highs of at least 102 at Chicago O’Hare and 101 at Minneapolis. Please be careful if your out and about this afternoon and even long into this […]

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Historic July 4th Heat With 100s For Minneapolis & Chicago, Mid-Upper 90s From New York To Washington DC! (Includes Video!)

Historic July 4th Heat With 100s For Minneapolis & Chicago, Mid-Upper 90s From New York To Washington DC! (Includes Video!)

[error] TODAY WILL BE DANGEROUSLY HOT FOR BOTH MINNEAPOLIS & CHICAGO WITH AIR TEMPS NEAR 102° AT 4-5PM COMBINED WITH DEW POINTS IN THE 70S, REAL FEELS WILL PUSH 108-115° [/error] Today looks to be on track for what will be an historic July 4th for both the Twin Cities and Chicago. You have to go back to 1947 for the […]

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Blistering Independence Day For Much Of America But Change Comes This Weekend (Includes Video!)

Blistering Independence Day For Much Of America But Change Comes This Weekend (Includes Video!)

[warning] I EXPECT NEAR 100-DEGREE HIGHS OVER MINNEAPOLIS, MADISON, MILWAUKEE AND CHICAGO OVER THE NEXT 3 AFTERNOONS [/warning] While the past 10 days has been blistering across a large part of the USA and the next 5 days continues that theme, we do have significant changes in the 5-10 day starting this weekend… While going by the GFS 500mb chart […]

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Heat Core Returns To Plains For Jul 4th, Brief Hot Blast For Mid-Atlantic This Weekend, Big Change Next Week! (Includes Video!)

Heat Core Returns To Plains For Jul 4th, Brief Hot Blast For Mid-Atlantic This Weekend, Big Change Next Week! (Includes Video!)

The good news for those living up and down the East Coast today is much lower humidity in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic while it’s all about the lower air temperatures in the Southeast. Highs in the mid and upper 90s yesterday from DC to NYC along with high humidity made it very uncomfortable whereas today, although […]

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Atlanta Tops 106° Setting New All-Time Record, Heat Retreats Back West By Tuesday

Atlanta Tops 106° Setting New All-Time Record, Heat Retreats Back West By Tuesday

Today became Atlanta’s hottest day in recorded history as the high peaked at 106° . This surpassed the previous record of 105° set on July 17, 1980. Luckily for those out and about around the scorching city, the humidity was low (in the 50s) and so the 106° was bearable. The drier air is also allowing […]

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Monster Derecho Travels 1000 Miles From Iowa To New Jersey Causing Massive Damage, Cutting Power To Over 2M

Monster Derecho Travels 1000 Miles From Iowa To New Jersey Causing Massive Damage, Cutting Power To Over 2M

A cluster of thunderstorms which started yesterday morning in Iowa just as the hot dome was beginning to heat the air to the south, started to push east bringing dramatic shelf clouds, driving rains, gusty winds and lightning through the Chicago metro. The storms intensified, stretching out as they cut through Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, […]

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Worst Of Southeast US Heat Comes Saturday, Atlanta Shooting For 107°

Worst Of Southeast US Heat Comes Saturday, Atlanta Shooting For 107°

While yesterday’s blowtorch seemed and likely felt off the charts and for many it was, the crazy thing is, Saturday will be hotter and likely the peak of this heatwave. The 850 temps are warmer directly over the Southeast on Saturday and so such cities as Atlanta should surpass their current 105° all-time record with […]

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Brutal Southeast Heat Sets Countless Monthly, Even All-Time Records (City/temp list)

We have seen an historic weather day across the Southeast up into the Mid-Atlantic region as a mighty 592dc high sits directly over the Tennessee Valley and breaks not only monthly all-time records but all-time records for any month. It is incredible to see 104-110° temperatures this afternoon from Arkansas to North Carolina and Virginia. Here […]

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Atlanta Tops 104° Today Setting June Record, 1° Shy Of All-time!

Atlanta Tops 104° Today Setting June Record, 1° Shy Of All-time!

The temperature is sitting at 101° and may be on the way to 104° before the normal 5pm peak. Today marks the first 100s for the Peachtree City since the blistering August 2007 heatwave. Highs during that hot spell maxed out at 104°, just 1° shy of the all-time record. This time around they may push that […]

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1930s Style Heat Wave Over US

1930s Style Heat Wave Over US

Well there’s no point in me telling you it’s darn HOT from the Plains to East Coast as you well know. Amazing at just how sweltering these readings are. This will be a heatwave remembered for a long time. It started last weekend when we saw Colorado tie the state all-time record high at 114°, […]

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