An unrelenting heat wave that’s baked the southern United States for weeks is expanding and will cover the most territory of the summer between Wednesday and Friday, swelling into the Upper Midwest and Northeast.
Wednesday will feature continued records across the Southwest, including in Phoenix, where Sky Harbor Airport is expected to spike to a calendar day record of 118 degrees. Tucson, at 111 degrees, will flirt with a record, as well as Albuquerque, which is enduring its hottest July by a wide margin and could make it to 101 degrees.that the city “has been roasting like Hatch Green Chile” this month.
Chicago and Minneapolis will reside just south of the most intense heat but will still see highs in the 90s and heat indexes approaching 100. Wednesday and Thursday will be the hottest days in Minneapolis and Thursday and Friday in Chicago.Triple-digit temperatures will also begin to appear on the East Coast by Thursday and Friday. Newark is slated to hit 100 degrees on Thursday, just shy of the record of 101 set in 2005.
For those outside the Desert Southwest, it’s not just a dry heat — tropical humidity will combine with the exceptional temperatures, making for heat indexes well above 100 degrees.In Florida, for example, Manatee Bay logged a water temperature of 101.1 degrees at a depth of 5 feet. In addition to, the sunbaked seas are pouring copious humidity into the air. That’s why Miami is under a heat advisory. On Monday, the heat index hit 108, and it made it to 106 on Tuesday.
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