The Philadelphia health office and the local National Weather Service office
issued urban heat advisories for the Philadelphia metropolitan area for
Today. I'm checking on it, but this is the only heat advisory I could find
in the nation.
Yesterday was the second day of our heat wave. As I type, the temperature is
already 84 at 9:40am, at Philadelphia its already 84 too. Yesterday we
reached 93. Tomorrow's high will be between 93 and 96 but the heat index
will be in the low 100s...criteria for a heat advisory. Record high today is
97.
Today's ground ozone will be unhealthy, or a code red. Already on the
news...9 people suffered heat exhaustion, but no strokes or fatalities yet.
>From Hartford to Washington, the air quality should be low for Thursday. The
University of Delaware...which issues a special heat stress index...rates
today at a 9.7 or "extreme" on a scale of 1 to 10!
I looked at a map of forecast highs today...and Philadelphia has the highest
temperature in the east coast. A cold front pushing south in New England
will cool off Maine...who probably had the award for hottest air. We'll have
to wait until Saturday.
Bill Deger
(http://phlweather.tripod.com/
and http://phlweather.tripod.com/severe/svrdisc.html)
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