The Philadelphia health office and the local National Weather Service office
have issued urban heat advisories for the Philadelphia metropolitan area
Thursday. I'm checking on it, but this is the only heat advisory I could
find in the nation.
Today was the second day of our heat wave. As I type, the temp is 94, at
Philadelphia its 92, but today's high was about 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.
Tomorrow'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
tomorrow at a 9.7 or "extreme" on a scale of 1 to 10!
I looked at a map of forecast highs tomorrow...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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