By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist
July 22,2016; 11:48PM,EDT
Much of the eastern United States will continue to swelter with above-average temperatures into the end of the month.
Highs during the last part of July typically range from the middle 80s to near 90 F across much of the region. High temperatures in many areas will average 5-10 degrees above normal and will be close to 15 degrees above normal in some locations.
"With no strong pushes of cool air from Canada on the horizon, people from the mid-Atlantic to the Deep South can expect virtually no relief from the high heat and humidity," according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Kyle Elliott.
Most of the cool air will get bottled up over the northern Plains.
Highs most days will be in the 90s in New York City; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; Atlanta; and Charlotte, North Carolina; right through the end of July. It is possible temperatures approach 100 for a day or two from Washington, D.C., on south.
Most nights in the large cities will be quite warm. Temperatures in the urban areas will only dip into the 70s for a few hours and will offer only brief relief from the heat.
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"Farther north, from the Great Lakes to New England, there will be a day or two where temperatures dip to near seasonal norms, compliments of rounds of thunderstorms," Elliott said.
However, spotty thunderstorms may also raise humidity levels a few more notches in some locations.
High temperatures will fluctuate from the middle 80s to the lower to middle 90s in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Boston and Albany, New York.
The hot pattern will offer opportunities to head to the beach or hang out at the pool.
While there are signs that cooler air will attempt to build over the Upper Midwest toward the end of July and during the first part of August, how much cool air, if any, gets to the Atlantic Seaboard during that time is questionable at this point, AccuWeather Long-Range Meteorologist Edward Vallee stated.
"The cooler air versus ongoing heat will be contingent upon whether or not an area of high pressure builds along the Atlantic Seaboard by early August," Vallee said.
The clockwise flow around high pressure along the Atlantic coast would tend to keep heat and high humidity locked in place.
Debbie Brunell
the good news keeps coming ( HEAVY SARCASM )
Aaron Ginther ·
I
live in central VA. In a typical year, you shouldn't expect any "real"
relief from the heat and humidity in the dog days of summer anyway, to
be completely honest. On occasions, a cold front will drop down and
humidity levels will relax for a day or so, but days like that are
spotty and few and far between. It's very common for fronts this time of
year to stall over the Mid-Atlantic, and it will remain steamy anywhere
from MD on south. These summertime cold fronts originating from Canada
weaken as they make their move through the lower 48, and since this time
of year the jet stream is weak in nature, they can't go but so far
south. Blasts of cool air never come and visit the folks on the Gulf
coast in July.
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Michael Manden ·
It's
interesting the way being inland works. In the summer, the Albany, NY
area, which is about 170 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, is often hotter
than NYC, which is right on the ocean. Yet we're often colder than NYC
in winter.
Steven Jones
Michael,
do you always complain? According to your post you are in D.C. That
my friend has been broiling all summer with weeks to go. It is always
hot and humid this time of year. Why so upset on the length of heat in
the forecast. Take a dip in the pool and cool your head.
Phil Harrison ·
If
we were stationed in DC, we got Tropical pay. It was considered a
tropical zone for the military. That tells you in two words what the
weather will be like in DC.
Michael Manden ·
Perhaps
you should take similar advice, i.e. a chill pill. But what are you, a
troll working on the behalf of accuweather? Now, if you'd actually read
every word of my comments, you'd know that I "complained" against
accuweather's sensationalism and lack of accuracy (that goes beyond the
parameters of the inexactitude of meteorology.) And I asked the staff
here why they write what they write. If I'd been way off base, they
could've owned me by proving it. They didn't prove it ('nuff said about
that.) Now, if you took the trouble to read my bio at FB, and if you
could read beyond the second grade level, you'd know that I went to
school in DC, but I don't live there. And if you'd read all of my many
"complaints," you'd know that I actually like triple H weather, and that
I live in the Albany, NY area.
Besides, what gives someone such as yourself the right to determine what another person can say or write?
Besides, what gives someone such as yourself the right to determine what another person can say or write?
Michael Manden ·
Phil
Harrison The key to DC weather is humidity in both summer and winter.
The cold goes right through one because of the humidity. And I did know
that British soldiers received tropical pay when stationed in
Washington. I spent some time in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, and
that was the only place where I felt that the heat and humidity were
worse than in DC.
Michael Manden ·
First,
it's "virtually no relief in sight" (a clause which cancels itself
out), and then its "virtually no relief into the end of July" (which has
only 9 days to go.) Which is it? Perhaps you're planning to say again
on August 1 that there's no relief in sight, so that people will become
even more concerned about the hot weather than they normally are. In my
part of the NE, there'll be relief next week (I know: your forecasts
don't cover every square mile of a region.) Can you understand now why
people get fed up with accuweather, as they get fed up with any media
venue that's really an infotainment venue? How are people not to suspect
that you at this site really would love summers with nothing but triple
H weather, followed by hurricanes, with the accompanying suffering and
destruction (especially considering your articles on weather-related
disasters.)
James B. Herrick ·
Wow, you really do complain about Aacuweather a lot.
Michael Manden ·
James B. Herrick Wow, you can't even spell "Accuweather."
Which makes your uncalled-for trolling even more amusing.
But you gotta love Americans nowadays: they're all for the freedom of expression, except when that expression disagrees with their own.
Which is rich, considering that so many of them let the media tell them how to think, and even what to feel.
Which makes your uncalled-for trolling even more amusing.
But you gotta love Americans nowadays: they're all for the freedom of expression, except when that expression disagrees with their own.
Which is rich, considering that so many of them let the media tell them how to think, and even what to feel.
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