After a stretch of cool weather, the Lehigh Valley is set to face its first heat wave of the year.<\/p>\n
Things will already begin to warm up Saturday, with a high of around 80 expected. Temperatures will then approach highs near and above 90 degrees starting Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0Bermuda high pressure over the western Atlantic Ocean will lead to an \u201cincreasingly hot and humid air mass\u201d moving into the region, forecasters said.<\/p>\n
During the heat wave, conditions will be mostly clear, with no rain expected, according to the weather service forecast.<\/p>\n
The heat is expected to break Wednesday afternoon and evening.\u00a0Showers are likely as the region transitions away from the summer-like highs.<\/p>\n
By Thursday, a more seasonable high temperature in the low 70s is expected. That will still be warmer than the past week, when highs struggled to make it out of the 60s.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the extended forecast from the weather service:<\/p>\n
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 81. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.<\/p>\n
Saturday night: A chance of sprinkles with a slight chance of showers between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., then a slight chance of showers after 5 a.m. Increasing clouds, with a low around 62. Southwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.<\/p>\n
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. West wind around 5 mph.<\/p>\n
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 61. Calm wind.<\/p>\n
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 90. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 68.<\/p>\n
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 93.<\/p>\n
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 70.<\/p>\n
Wednesday: Showers likely after 2 p.m. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. Chance of precipitation is 60%.<\/p>\n
Wednesday Night: Showers likely, mainly before 8 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. Chance of precipitation is 60%.<\/p>\n
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 74.<\/p>\n
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51.<\/p>\n
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a stretch of cool weather, the Lehigh Valley is set to face its first heat wave of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":["post-194518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}