{"id":196599,"date":"2026-05-19T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196599\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:56:07","slug":"heat-wave-roasts-philadelphia-region-could-reach-hottest-may-temps-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196599\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave roasts Philadelphia region, could reach hottest May temps on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Philadelphia area is under an AccuWeather Alert as, what will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/likely-first-heat-wave-brings-180713294.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:likely be the first heat wave of the year;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;likely be the first heat wave of the year&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely be the first heat wave of the year<\/a>, roasts the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Plenty of people were outside, dining al fresco, and going for a run to enjoy the warmth on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, on Tuesday, we could hit the highest May temperature on record for Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">From the fountains at Dilworth Plaza to water ice at John&#8217;s in South Philly, as the temperatures spring up, everyone&#8217;s finding a way to cool off &#8212; even dogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With high temperatures in the upper 90s on Monday, and again Tuesday and even into Wednesday, we have entered our first heat wave of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The heat wave comes right before Memorial Day, which is the earliest heat wave since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The current hottest May day sits at 97 degrees, set on May 30 and 31 back in 1991, according to Meteorologist Payton Domschke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The air was soupy and thick on Monday, yet some runners persevered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The heat doesn&#8217;t affect our workout. It&#8217;s a mental thing &#8211; it could be hot, cold -whatever. We still out here,&#8221; said Coach Rick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The heat is expected to break midweek when a strong cold front brings showers and a few storms on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures should be much cooler as we head into the Memorial Day holiday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia area is under an AccuWeather Alert as, what will likely be the first heat wave of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3667,28287,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-196599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-heat-wave","tag-payton-domschke","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196599","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=196599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}