The National Weather Service (NWS) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have issued a Heat Advisory and a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Sunday, July 19, continuing into Monday. Temperatures could reach into the mid 90s Saturday afternoon and with the heat index, it could feel like over 100 degrees, ABC7 Meteorologist Troy Christensen said.
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Hot, steamy weather is in the forecast Saturday and Sunday, with a Heat Advisory beginning Saturday afternoon and a chance of showers. The predicted low for Sunday night is about 70. Chance of rain percent.
Friday will see showers early in the day and then some clearing by the evening.
Muscle cramps, fatigue and lightheadedness are all signs of heat exhaustion, but the doctor says heat stroke is a surgical emergency.
The coast and those along the Strait of Juan de Fuca will cool off Sunday but it’ll be another hot day around Seattle.
The entire Chicago area is under a Heat Advisory until 8 p.m. Saturday, with highs in the mid-90s.
From May through September 2013, Milwaukee recorded 11 days of 90 degree or higher temperatures.
The overnight won’t bring much relief, with lows in the 70’s though it will turn slightly less humid. The phrase “heat wave” conjures an image of a long and unusually hot stretch of weather.
High temperatures will drop into the upper 80s as a rare dry pattern sets in before the next chance for rain by the second half of next weekend.
It’ll be the hottest weekend so far this summer if forecasters are correct.
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Monday night: Partly cloudy, low around 64. Before the excessive humidity returns we should have a very pleasant Friday with sunny skies and a high near 80.
