Although the U.S. Southeast has scorching summers every year, the hot weather forecast for Saturday and the upcoming week is a bit severe even by Florida and the Carolinas’ standards.
For a significant portion of the weekend, the National Weather Service issued heat advisories for a wide area of the East Coast, extending from central Florida to Virginia. Central Florida was expected to have highs in the upper 90s F (mid-30s C), with heat indices ranging from 105 to 110 degrees F (40.6 to 43 degrees C). Similar conditions prevailed into Virginia from Georgia and the Carolinas.
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A large portion of eastern North Carolina, inland as Raleigh, and a portion of South Carolina, including Myrtle Beach, were under an extreme heat warning. With temperatures in some places on Sunday approaching or surpassing 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and heat indices reaching 115 degrees Fahrenheit through Sunday night, forecasters issued a warning about dangerously hot weather.
remain out of the sun, remain in an air-conditioned room, stay hydrated, and see how your neighbors and family are doing. The weather service gave advice.When you’re outside, exercise additional caution. Put on loose-fitting, light clothing. Strenuous exercises should ideally be restricted to the early morning or evening. When you observe signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke, take action. Remain educated, hydrated, and cool.
According to the meteorological service, there will be little nocturnal respite from the excessive heat risk for many days in a number of major Southeast cities, including Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Atlanta, Georgia. It predicted that during the height of the heat wave through midweek, more than 30 million people would probably be impacted.
The Midwest was also in for a hot and muggy weekend. Southern Minnesota, western Iowa, and eastern Nebraska were under extreme heat watches. In Minnesota, heat indices were predicted to hit 96 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) on Saturday and rise even more on Sunday.
Additionally, a severe heat warning remained in effect until Tuesday night for the St. Louis, Missouri, area, with highs of about 99 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius) and heat indices of around 110 degrees Fahrenheit predicted for Monday and Tuesday.
Storms struck parts of Iowa on Saturday morning, causing flash flood warnings and dropping between 2 and 5 inches (5 to 13 centimeters) of rain in some places.
