Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot!

Over the past few days, the Northeast has been under a serious High Pressure system causing a heat wave. This heat wave has stayed prominent even into today with slightly cooler temperatures at the coasts. Providence's high temperature for today hit 92. The winds started off this morning from the North Northeast, and over the course of the say has shifted to South Southeast at about 9mph. Overnight temperatures will cool into the upper 70's which is still pretty high for overnight temperatures and the winds will calm as the night progresses.

The National Weather Service in Taunton, MA issued a Heat Advisory at 10:30 this morning and will be in effect until 7pm this evening for most of Rhode Island except for Block Island Newport and Bristol counties. A Heat Advisory is issued when high temperatures are experienced in addition to high humidity to result in a heat indices of 100° or higher.

Hopefully we will be able to break out of this heat wave as of tomorrow. Slightly cooler temperatures are expected although we may see some lower 90° temps further inland in RI. The forecast high for RI however is 87° and the humidity will still be pretty high. Winds again will be out of the South Southeast at about 8mph.

Friday looks about the same with a high temp expected to be 87°

Saturday however looks like our first chance of relief in terms of the precipitation kind. A low pressure system will pass through the area in the late afternoon to the evening on Saturday which will bring about a few showers into our area.. We will take a better look at this in Tomorrow's Forecast.