It is only going to get hotter.
It's not the best news I'm gonna
give you guys on a Monday morning,
but yeah, we're going to be looking
ahead at really our next heat wave.
Heat waves typically two to three
days of above average temps.
We have maybe 7 to 10 days. Alright
just gotta get ready.
Yeah, it's not going to be
quite as muggy as what we had,
just a few weeks ago where we
were of course looking at those
triple digit heat index values
that were above 105 right now.
I do think most of our days will
stay just below that threshold,
but it's just going to be
the prolonged heat that I
think is really going to.
I get a
lot of folks right as we're going
to be talking about a week if not
a week and a half.
So at least today it's
not looking quite as bad.
Monroe looking great out there.
You can see some fair
weather cumulus clouds.
The same for Kannapolis
and our Dallas Tower Cam
where there will be a few storms
to help cool us off later on
this afternoon and evening.
But it's not going to be
a significant rain event.
In fact, a lot of this is going
to arrive much later on today,
so here we are as we approach 11:12 o'clock.
You can see a few little
skimpy storms out there,
but for the most part,
it's going to be much
later on this afternoon.
The evening that we even see
storms developing up toward
the mountains and foothills.
Now what's going to be again?
Interesting about today's storms is most
of them will arrive much later on in the day.
The good news is that this is going to limit
the potential for severe storms to develop.
I think we could see some strong storms,
but at least officially the Storm
Prediction Center does not have us
in that threat for severe weather.
But we are going to see still some
strong storms, heavy rain,
gusty wind, and frequent lightning.
So for the Charlotte Metro area this is not
going to arrive until close to 9:10 o'clock.
So mountains.
Foothills first.
Eventually 9:10 PM.
Even 11:00 o'clock there
for a few spots locally,
and then most of that does pass
toward our South as we head through
the overnight hours into Tuesday.
Now Tuesday, more of a run-of-the-mill
Day where we have daytime heating,
scattered showers and storms start to
blow up in the afternoon and evening,
and then they do move out just
as quickly as they moved in.
So again lower end severe
weather risk for tomorrow.
No severe weather risk for today,
but we are again going to look
for that isolated flooding.
Frequent lightning gusty winds.
So even when you see non
severe thunderstorms.
You can still get all these three things,
and I do think that flash
flooding threat if any,
of those pockets of isolated
storms can get rain heavy enough.
That'll be mostly from I-40
in areas northward,
so today 93 degrees,
92 tomorrow,
pretty close to normal for this time of year,
but look how much we increase as
we head toward Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and even heading toward the weekend.
There's a chance some of us could reach
the upper 90s for high temperatures.
Then of course,
you tack on the humidity,
and these are some of our feels like
temperatures that I'm looking at going ahead.
So today 93.
I think both today and tomorrow
will reach the upper 90s,
but we will be flirting with that
100 degree number there or 100
degree number that is by Wednesday.
That's when we really start to
transition back into the triple
digits and then it's Thursday
and actually again on Saturday
and Sunday that I think our heat
index values will be getting
really close to about 104 or so,
and that'll put us very close to
that heat advisory threshold.
And again,
it's not just the fact that it's going
to be hot and humid,
it's above average heat and it's going
to last for multiple days a week,
if not a week and a half. And of course.
Always a good reminder right?
To think about your pets when
you're walking them today.
We're right around 93 degrees or so,
so that puts us between the
90 to 95 degree temperature,
concrete, asphalt getting between
125 to upwards of 155 degrees
and we talk about this a lot,
but you want to take your hand, flip it
over to the backside.
That's the more sensitive side of your hand.
Remember, your palms can get really catless,
so it's not as accurate.
Put it on the ground for seven seconds.
If it's too hot for you,
it's too hot for your pup's
feet now Wednesday, of course.
A big day here in the Queen City
as Chelsea will be here for the
Charlotte FC match at 7:30.
It'll still be hot.
It'll still be humid even though
the match doesn't start until 7:30.
I expect temperatures around 7:00
or so to still be near 90 degrees,
and you'll still feel like the mid 90s,
so she's sure to stay hydrated.
And again,
you can see the heat lasting right Thursday.
Heat index near 104.
We stay in those triple digits all
the way through the weekend and again
looking ahead at the 10 day forecast.
I do think this could linger
even until this time next week.