With a high temperature of 91 degrees on Tuesday, the heat wave in the Philadelphia region is now on Day 2. It will continue and ramp up on Wednesday, peaking on Friday. This one looks likely to be historic and unprecedented.
If our current forecast high temps hold, that would give us a four-day stretch of highs above 100, which has never happened on record in Philadelphia.
Thursday and Friday are likely to break daily heat records, with Thursday’s record of 103 dating back to 1901 — 125 years or half the time America has existed (easy mental math this week)…