Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey’s First Warning Forecast
If you have been feeling nostalgic for stifling summer, heat and humidity, you’re in luck! For the rest of us, it is going to be brutal over the next week.
A broad area of high-pressure building across our region will bring us plenty of heat and humidity beginning on Wednesday.
We are expecting clear to partly cloudy skies for mid week with high temperatures in the lower 90s and heat index values in the upper 90s.
The heat and humidity really start to kick in on Thursday. We are expecting feels like temperatures to cross the 100° mark and keep rising from there.
Our forecast for Friday is a heat index of 103°, 106° on Saturday and 105° on Sunday!
This time of the year, about the only thing that really cools is off is rain. And it looks like we are going to stay dry for the next couple of days.
But afternoon storms look to move back in on Friday and be with us through the weekend, thanks to a weakening cold front that will be moving our way.
The weekend won’t be a washout, but there will be a decent chance for storms, both afternoons, and the storm chances get even higher as we head into our next work week. Stay tuned.
