I was doing the daily dog walk yesterday and just tried to make it through another hot and humid day. There was a little breeze out of the north. It was nice when that blew, but most of the time it was just feeling hot and muggy. High temps were in the upper 80s to near 90 in Norfolk. That is probably due to the location being fairly close to the bay. However, many inland temps hit the low 90s.
Keep in mind that many inland temperatures were in the low 90s, and the heat indices were in the lower 100s.
One viewer asked about if we had broken a record for 90 degree days lately. Interestingly enough, we have actually and technically been below average for most of the last 2 weeks.
Again, I think part of the reason for that is that there has been an onshore breeze for a good bit of the time (which is rare this time of year). Norfolk is located fairly close to the water. So a breeze off of the bay will affect that site and keep it cooler than inland areas. Also, we have had a lot of very muggy days. This has produced a good amount of clouds on some days with rain on some others. So that is also a factor. It’s really been the heat index that has made it feel so miserable for so long. (We’ve been pretty humid since May!).
Having said that, there is a large area of the U.S. covered in heat alerts.
There are also some large areas in the “Extreme Heat Warnings”. You’ll notice that we are not in a heat alert today. We should be just below Heat Advisory criteria. (Heat index 105-109)…