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The heat is very much ON throughout the Lower Midwest through the Ohio Valley and into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. For folks in Chicago, the heat wave is OVER as the front is CURRENTLY pushing through the city and dropping the temperature sharply. I do believe it did strike 100° at O’Hare just before that front […]
The temperature soared to a blistering 102° at O’Hare, Midway and Northerly Island yesterday and according to Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling of WGN-TV, this marked only the second time in 142 years where a reading of 100+ has been recorded on Independence Day. Yesterday’s high tied the record for hottest July 4th, last reached over a century ago. The […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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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