The West has been sweltering all week, but the heat is shifting. More than 160 records might be broken by the end of the week as the heat wave moves east.
“The largest temperature anomalies compared to average will be situated over interior sections of Oregon and Washington, where high temperatures are forecast to soar to near 30 degrees above the normal high for this time of year,” says the WPC.
Highs will be in the upper 80s today for Fargo and Minot, with the heat rising through the rest of the week with highs near 100° by Friday.
This tropical air mass will remain in place for the Midwest “resulting in high temperatures reaching the low to mid-90s in central Minnesota and western Wisconsin and as high as upper-90s in western Minnesota,” says the National Weather Service in Twin Cities, Minnesota.
“An important but less obvious impact of this heat wave will be overnight low temperatures in the low to mid-70s, which is close to where we have sat for highs for the past couple of weeks,” says the NWS Twin Cities.
“Everyone loves talking about the record highs during the day, but another danger in heat waves is when the air doesn’t cool down at night.
Even Boston could see temperatures in the upper-80s to low-90s by the end of the weekend, beginning their first heat wave of the season.
