Northeast Braces for Triple-Digit Temperatures: Your Complete Weather Forecast

Episode Transcript

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Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier
and I am the weatherman.
Thanks for checking in totheweathermanpodcom on your
Thursday.
It's the 24th day in the monthof July 2025 and things are
starting to heat up across thenortheast.
We've had some beautifulweather from central portions of
Virginia all the way up tosouthern Maine.
Some great weather conditionsfor the last several days.
As high pressure built rightdown from Canada, moved right

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across the region.
Now it's moving offshore.
The return flow of southerlywinds is going to start heating
things up.
So, after some excellentweather on Tuesday and Wednesday
, it looks like we're going tohave things start to heat up a
bit up near 90 degrees 90 to 93degrees in New York City, about
93 also in Philadelphia, 95 downin Baltimore and DC, all with
that hazy sunshine starting todevelop across the region on

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your Thursday afternoon,thursday evening.
Real problem is tomorrow,excessive heat warnings are
going to be up, probably for theafternoon hours, as
temperatures will range in the95 to 101 range, depending upon
where you are.
Of course, in the cities, allthat concrete and macadam, the
sun beating down on it withhardly any cloud cover it really
causes things to heat up quitea bit.

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That's where your heat indexvalues will be up to about 105.
That's a combination oftemperature and humidity, but he
adds to that the fact that theground is retaining a lot of the
heat that forms, especially inthe cities.
It gets quite tough.
So take it slow and easy.
Plenty of liquids and fluids,water is best, and loose-fitting
clothing of light color andmaterial always best.

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And don't exert yourself duringthe afternoon hours.
That's why you're going to havean excessive heat warning in
effect for the area on Friday.
Again, temperatures of about 95to 101, 102, depending upon
where you are.
By Saturday a frontal systemcurrently across the Great Lakes
, will be moving eastward.
That will be giving us thepossibility of some late day and
evening thunderstorms, buttemperatures will still manage
to get up to around 90 or 92.

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So on Sunday temperatures willcool back a bit.
That frontal system will goacross the region, possibly
become stationary across thearea, and that will set us up
with a slightly cooler flow buta better chance of showers and
thunderstorms expected forSunday into Sunday night.
Now, if you're flying today, itlooks like decent weather in
Atlanta and Charlotte.
No problems in the New Yorkarea because of the dry weather

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conditions, a big area of highpressure Also dry up in Boston,
but rainy weather in central andsouth Florida.
Anywhere south of LakeOkeechobee across to Fort Myers
on the west coast, down to Miamiand Fort Lauderdale and West
Palm on the east you are goingto have those afternoon
thunderstorms, also some rainyweather with the possibility of
a tropical disturbance.
Just south of Louisiana and NewOrleans and coastal sections of

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Alabama, mississippi andFlorida panhandles there could
be some heavy weather there inthe form of showers and
thunderstorms.
Dry in Houston and Dallas, butvery hot, overcast with rainy
weather and some showers andthunderstorms in Chicago,
minneapolis, st Paul clearingout but still smoky from some of
those high pressures and thefires.
In the central and westernportion of Canada.

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High pressure builds in withthe northerly flow, brings down
that smoky condition that hasbeen up there for the last
several days.
Dry weather in Los Angeles andSan Francisco.
Might be a shower in Portland,but decent conditions in Seattle
, tacoma with some extra clouds,maybe some showers tonight and
tomorrow.
I'm meteorologist, stevePelletieri and I am the
weatherman.
Hope you have a great day today.
Try to keep cool in the heat,especially tomorrow.
We'll have our next update onFriday morning.

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We'll talk to you then.
See you then.