WOR Meteorologist Ray Stagich Interview

Ray gives us a detailed update about this week's heat wave. What should you do to keep cool? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we're going through a few days of high heat.
There's a heat advisory out there, So let's get right
to Ray stage, a wo R Weather Channel meteorologist, for
an extended forecast. Now, Ray, I really see you as
like a weather profit. I believe in everything you say.
And I remember last week when you for us only

(00:21):
you went even further than you're comfortable and going, and
you said you saw this pocket of cool air that
we were going to love, that we were going to
enjoy next week. I guess this ain't it.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Huh No, But thanks for the compliment anyway, And boy
have I deceived. Boy? What a good job. Hey, the
first role of broadcasting right, sound believable, But if you
want to jump to that, this ain't it. But it's coming.
And if you haven't seen it by now, all over
the news and everybody's talking about the eastern part of

(00:55):
the nation getting this huge cool down. But we still
got to deal with let's call it a heat wave.
It's three days in a row ninety plus temperatures. We've
done that once so far this summer, in June the
twenty third, twenty fourth, and twenty fifth, where it was
ninety six ninety nine and ninety six, respectively, and that's
at Central Park, So it may not be as hot

(01:17):
as that three day stretch, but still ninety four, ninety six,
ninety five the next three days with the heat index
value adder over one hundred in some spots. Marie I
would say, that's still pretty darn hot. So June ended
up about one point three degrees above normal. Looks like
we're gonna end up about that above normal for the
month of July. Only a one day will be below

(01:40):
normal for the rest of this month, and that'll be
Thursday or Ohio'll be near eighty degrees, but we might
not get out of the seventies on Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Explain the heat index to us.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, So heat index a right measures temperature combined with humidity,
and humidity is basically moisture in the air. You know,
microscop you can't see it. It's when you talk about
deue points. In higher humidity, there is more moisture in
the air. And what that does, it's the opposite of
the wind chill in the wintertime. So wind chill pulls

(02:10):
heat away from your body and your exposed skin in
the wintertime, so the sensation is that you are colder.
It feels colder when you've got this water vapor in
the air. What it does is that it kind of
holds heat in to your body. It kind of like
sticks to you. That's how you feel like you're hotter
than the air temperatures actually are, because your body is
not allowed to cool efficiently or effectively. So that's the

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opposite sensation where you know, you get higher humid and
you get more of that moisture in the air feels heavier.
It's that you're getting more of that kind of like
heat that's not allowed to escape from your body and
cool your body through your exposed skin, as opposite to
wind chill, which actually pulls heat away from your body.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Now, as you know, I worked in TV most of
my life, and I know that they're going to run
with this tonight. I'm sure they're building the heat wave
as we speak, and they're going to talk about how
dangerous it is, right, So I want to get from
you how dangerous it actually is.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, it always goes back to you know, you hope
everybody knows what they can handle. Right, So when we've
got the heat index values as highs they're going to be,
you will subcumb to the heat a lot quicker than
you would let's just say on the normal summer day
that's like around eighty five degrees, and you know, when
you're outdoors, you just take precautions stay hydrated, like colord,

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loose fitting clothing, and frequent breaks. And if you stop sweating,
that's one of the signs that you are dehydrated and
you're possibly going to get not necessarily heat stroke, but
you're on the beginning stages of maybe feeling a little
bit of heat exhaustion. And then if you start getting
to that point where you start feeling dizzy and then
maybe like you're going to pass out, then you're getting
closer to heat strokes. So not only know how you

(03:51):
can prepare for it to keep yourself safe, know the
signs of maybe if you're going into one of these
phases of you know, heat, heat stroke or heat exhaustion,
which you know would start with not sweating, starting to
feel dizzy, and if you don't feel quote unquote just right,
as a lot of people like to say, you're probably
starting to feel the effects of the heat and humidity.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's why is the best raced age at w R
National Weather Channel meteorologist and exclusively with wo R. How
about that at least in New York, exclusively in New York.
Thanks so much, Race, He Eric