It will be a very hot Tuesday with the possibility of a severe storm later today.
Temperatures will soar to the mid-nineties with a heat index value just above 100 degrees.
Lance Frank, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey says one big concern during hot weather is the potential for heat exhaustion.
“Strenuous activities especially outdoors in the heat without adequate fluids, being out in the sun for a long period of time that can cause heat stress on the body,” he says.
Health professionals urge people to drink plenty of fluids during extreme heat and limit time outdoors.
Additionally, Frank says a cold front heading east from the Midwest will meet some very warm air from the Gulf of Mexico later today, bringing the potential for severe storms.
“We differentiate a general thunderstorm from a severe thunderstorm in that a severe thunderstorm produces hail of one inch in diameter which is about quarter size or greater and wind gusts in excess of fifty-eight miles per hour.”
The good news is that things cool down beginning Wednesday with temperatures expected to be in the mid to low eighties through Friday.