IT'LL GET HOT, BUT...

If it's any consolation, the core of max heat the next five days will stay just south of us. A picture speaks a thousand words, so i doctored up a GFS model temp profile to show you how intense the heat is getting across the country and how, in spite of the heat wave this coming week and last week,  we have really lucked out this month.

From Dr Rayn Maue site. This shows a "mean" temp for the next five days. in the pink area, many long standing records will fall by the wayside.

However, notice we're on the edge of this blistering heat meaning twofold: a possibility of thunderstorms to be intense at some point this weekend (odds favor sunday, but see the last post) and 90s will be the rule, but century-mark readings in real terms may be averted.