FOX Weather<\/a> has been tracking an unsettled pattern across the East Coast, with high humidity helping fuel rounds of afternoon thunderstorms from the Mid-Atlantic into the Northeast.<\/p>\nHow hot will it get?<\/p>\n
Saturday is also hot and humid across the New York City area.<\/p>\n
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Heat Alerts (FOX Weather)<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service forecast for Manhattan calls for temperatures in the lower 90s, with heat index values reaching the upper 90s. A Heat Advisory is in effect for much of the region through Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
Areas farther north of the city will be slightly cooler. The forecast provided for parts of Westchester County calls for highs near 87 with a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms, some potentially severe.<\/p>\n
What about Saturday night?<\/p>\n
Storm chances should begin decreasing during the evening.<\/p>\n
The forecast calls for a chance of thunderstorms before about 8 p.m. in parts of the region, followed by generally clearing conditions overnight.<\/p>\n
Sunday is expected to be mostly sunny with temperatures around 90 degrees in New York City.<\/p>\n
How to prepare for severe storms<\/p>\n
People with outdoor plans should keep an eye on changing conditions through Saturday evening and be prepared to move indoors if storms approach.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service advises people to seek shelter inside a sturdy building when severe thunderstorms threaten and to avoid flooded roads if heavy rain develops.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
This article was written using information from the National Weather Service and FOX Weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Strong to severe thunderstorms could develop across parts of the New York City area Saturday afternoon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21392,536,534,9,24,56,63,65,64,119490,119491,78721,79546],"class_list":["post-317013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fox-weather","tag-heavy-rain","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-saturday-afternoon","tag-severe-thunderstorm-warnings","tag-severe-thunderstorm-watch","tag-severe-thunderstorms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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