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Heatwaves, Pollen Alerts, and Travel Weather: Your Essential Mid-Atlantic & Northeast Forecast
Can you handle the heat? Brace yourselves as we explore the sizzling temperatures gripping the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states. Join me, your trusted meteorologist Steve Pellettiere, as we unpack the scorching heat advisories from DC to Boston, where temperatures are soaring into the mid-90s and heat indices are peaking between 100 and 105. But don't sweat it just yet! A refreshing cool front is on its way, promising to bring relief and scattered showers just in time for the holiday weekend.
Beyond the heatwave, we're diving into the ragweed pollen situation tormenting much of the country, from the Northeast down to the Gulf Coast, and even affecting the Western Plains and California. If you're planning to travel, I've got an aviation weather outlook for you, including potential weather-related delays in major hubs like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Chicago. Prioritize your comfort and safety with my expert insights to help you navigate the week ahead. Don't miss out on this episode packed with essential weather updates and much more!
Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I am the weatherman. Thanks for checking in to theweathermanpodcom on your Wednesday. It's the 28th day of the month of August 2024. We've got a lot of heat around the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeastern states and it looks as though heat advisory from DC up to the Boston area will continue. Some of the city's temperatures will get up to about 94 to 97 degrees, maybe in Philly, new York, up into Boston area, probably closer to about 88, 90 degrees. But DC could get up to about 95, 96, with high relative humidity and heat index values, which is a combination of the temperature and the humidity and sunshine. And that type of pattern usually gives you a heat index somewhere between 100 and 105, and that's very uncomfortable. So these heat advisories will continue, probably right up until 8 pm this evening, and then we'll get into some cooler weather. A cold front, a cool front actually this time of year is moving towards the region and that's going to bring us some relief from this heat and it's going to give us maybe a little bit of cloud cover on a daytime Thursday, but nice weather for Friday into the weekend. The front of us has system stationary pretty close by, so that means that we'll probably have some scattered showers and thunderstorms as we head into this upcoming holiday weekend.
Speaker 0:First, of course, you know, the last few days we've been talking about all the ragweed pollen. It looks like it has still quite severe in the northeast, from New Jersey across through southern Pennsylvania, delmarva, down to DC. The highest amount of pollen at this point ragweed pollen is from the western Virginias and western Carolinas, northern portions of Georgia, mississippi, alabama, all across the Tennessee Valley and central Mississippi River Valley, extending all the way out into the western Plain States and even out in California. We have moderate to high amounts of ragweed pollen expected, lighter amounts though in the Pacific Northwest. So still, if you have a problem with ragweed pollen, allergies to that it is going to be quite tough both today and probably tomorrow, although tomorrow I'm seeing that frontal system moving through. Maybe we'll get some relief in the ragweed situation. We'll probably drift a little bit further south and occupy the Gulf Coast and most of Texas and into northern Florida. But we'll have more on that for tomorrow.
Speaker 0:Aviation-wise, if you're traveling into the airport hubs across the nation, it still looks good at the Atlanta Hartsfield and also at Charlotte. Chicago will have some scattered showers but it doesn't look like any major problems weather-wise there. We do see some locally heavy thunderstorms as a possibility north of DC, dulles up to about Philly and maybe into the New York area, probably sometime between 4 and 8 pm during the daytime on Wednesday. Boston not looking too bad. South Florida also just some isolated scours and thunderstorms. Texas looking pretty good. Maybe some thunderstorms in Houston, but that'll be later day and evening most of the time just hazy and hot there. Dallas-fort Worth about the same West Coast looking dry from San Diego all the way up to Portland and into Seattle as well. I'm your host, steve Palatirian, I'm the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. No-transcript.