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John Homenuk

PM Update: Heat continues, brief respite expected this weekend

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The Heat Index reached well over 90 F in the NYC Metro Area again today, and the temperature reached over 90 F for the 20th time this season in Central Park. It was another oppressive day, and the weather pattern that has been providing those temperatures is expected to continue for the next few days. Heat and humidity will be commonplace, and although temperatures on Wednesday will be several degrees cooler than today, the humidity levels will still make it uncomfortable.

Opportunities for showers and thunderstorms will begin to increase late week, and thereafter we anticipate a brief respite in the heat. Brief will be the most significant aspect, once again, as the heat and humidity look likely to return again in the Days 7 to 10 time frame. The pattern overhead is stagnant, and it doesn’t look to be going away any time soon.

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Miguel Pierre

NYC Area Weekly Planner: Heat & Humidity Returns This Week

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Happy Labor Day! We hope you have been enjoying the last holiday weekend of the summer. We saw a break from the heat and oppressive humidity over the last few days, but heat will return again early this week as another strong ridge builds over much of the Eastern US. Although the heat and humidity won’t be quite as oppressive, it will still be uncomfortable. For more details, read on!

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John Homenuk

NYC Area Forecast: Additional strong storms possible later today

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Strong and severe thunderstorms moved through parts of the Northeast states on Tuesday evening, producing frequent and dangerous lightning as well as strong, gusty winds and torrential rain. There was even a wall cloud spotted in Queens and Nassau counties, as an area of distinct rotation appeared on terminal doppler radar out of Kennedy Airport. This was the third instance of rotating thunderstorms in the NYC area in just over a week.

The threat for strong thunderstorms will continue today as a frontal boundary slowly sinks towards the region. Instability is expected to build once again by this afternoon across the Northern Mid-Atlantic States with ample heating and a continued source of moisture (you may have noticed that it is very humid outside). As better forcing for storm development approaches later today, thunderstorms are expected to increase in coverage once again.

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John Homenuk

Behind the intricacies of the incoming heat wave

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It is not often that we can confidently state “A heat wave is coming” so many days in advance, yet here we are.

A heat wave is coming.

Granted, it hasn’t been easy pinning down the details of this pattern. But forecast model guidance has largely pointed most meteorologists in the right direction when it comes to this upcoming bout of heat. A combination of tropical forcing signals and the wave pattern in the North Pacific Ocean helped tip the hand of the hemispheric evolution, one that signified the development of an anomalous ridge along the East Coast.

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