Summer Heat Wave Hits the Northeast

Episode Transcript

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Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Palatieri
and I am the weatherman.
Thanks for checking intotheweathermanpodcom on your
Thursday.
It's the fifth day of the monthof June already and well, we're
looking at some very warmweather across the Northeast.
Many places yesterday Richmondall the way up to DC, west
Indelis all the way up to Philly, new York and even up in the
Boston area.
Temperatures are well abovenormal, touching into the 90s in

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Philly and New York and down inDC and Baltimore, but in the
upper 80s up in the Boston area.
But it looks like this highpressure is going to give us
another warm day today withtemperatures once again in the
upper 80s, low to mid 90s, withvery warm conditions for this
one more day.
Frontal system working its wayout of the Great Lakes, causing
some heavy thunderstorms acrossthe central Mississippi River
Valley, will eventually arrivein the east sometime during

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later Friday and Saturday Onceit moves offshore Saturday
afternoon, saturday evening, weget into a clearing trend Sunday
and Monday of next week withsome cooler temperatures.
So check your local forecast.
But we are looking attemperatures generally in the
upper 70s on Sunday, near 80degrees on Monday with dry
weather.
Upper 70s on Sunday, near 80degrees on Monday with dry
weather, but on Saturdaypossibility of some heavy

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thunderstorms and maybe somelocally severe storms, with the
frontal system slowly chargingon through.
Also, looking at an area ofpossible tropical development
just off the coast of northernFlorida, coastal Georgia and
South Carolina, an area of lowpressure is probably going to
meander in that position overthe next several days, probably
going to meander in thatposition over the next several

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days, and we'll update you overthe next several days and
through the weekend of itsprogress, whether or not it does
become a tropical depression.
The arcane season starts on June1st right up to November 30th
and well, our weather situationis starting to get a little bit
more summer-like each and everyday the sun getting higher,
rising earlier, setting later,very close, getting very close
to the beginning of astronomicalsummer.

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Meteorological summertimestarts on the 1st of June and
ever since it started thingshave been warming up quite
nicely.
If you're flying today, itlooks like some scattered
showers in Atlanta, nothingmajor.
Also some scattered showers andpossibly a thunderstorm or two
in Charlotte.
Dry in DC, dry in Philly, newYork, and also up in the Boston
area.
Thunderstorms in Cleveland, butit looks like the thunderstorms

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will clear out of the Chicagoarea and out west we're looking
at some morning fog, some middaysun and a few isolated
sprinkles and showers.
In Southern California,generally fair conditions after
morning clouds and fog in SanFrancisco, also dry in Portland
and Seattle.
On your Thursday I'm yourmoderator, steve Pelletier, and

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I am the weatherman.
Hope you have a great day today.
Talk to you first thingtomorrow.
Take care.