Get ready to sweat, Myrtle Beach. A heat wave moving east across the United States is heading for the Atlantic Coast, bringing scorching temperatures and high humidity.
“We are going to get blazing hot all week long next week,” said meteorologist Ian Boatman with the National Weather Service’s Wilmington Office.
If current predictions hold, this weekend could usher in the longest stretch of days above 90 degrees F since the summer of 1959.
How hot will Myrtle Beach get?
“The main theme is highs in the 90s — well into the 90s — every day, and your heat index will likely shoot up into the triple digits by Saturday,” Boatman said. “But we really head into what we call heat advisory criteria by Monday. Heat advisory criteria is 105 to 109 so we’re really going to be hot going into next week.”…