Oppressive heat, potentially dangerous thunderstorms approach upstate

Heat and scattered but potentially dangerous thunderstorms are moving into eastern upstate New York with meteorologists warning that it could feel oppressive outside by Thursday.

A heat advisory will be in effect from noon Thursday the counties that surround Albany as well as the low-lying portions of the Hudson Valley, including Hudson, Poughkeepsie and Middletown.

The temperature will flirt with 90 degrees on Thursday, but the National Weather Service in Albany says the rising humidity will make it feel like it is in the mid-90s. Even outlying areas like the Mohawk Valley, the Catskills and the southern Adirondack Mountains will experience temperatures in the high 80s, meteorologists said…

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