Thursday’s hot weather may have just been the appetizer. A “heat dome” developing on the East Coast could send temperatures to 100 degrees in Boston next week.
After toiling our way through a difficult spring full of rainy Saturdays, summer has literally and figuratively arrived.
The summer solstice officially occurs at 10:42 p.m. on Friday. Our longest days of the year and highest sun angles are here.
What is a heat dome?
Right on cue, a giant heat dome will be forming over most of the eastern half of the United States. The term “heat dome” is just another way of saying a large area of high pressure. This promotes sinking, warming air over a large area and will lead to numerous record high temperatures being set as well as the first heat wave for many in the Northeast…