{"id":230779,"date":"2026-06-29T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:19:07","slug":"dangerous-heat-forecasted-in-philadelphia-fourth-of-july-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230779\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous heat forecasted in Philadelphia Fourth of July week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>As Philadelphia closes in on what could be its busiest weekend in history with a packed schedule of celebrations of <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/series\/philadelphia-250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America\u2019s semiquincentennial<\/a> and a Fourth of July World Cup match, meteorologists are warning of an extended period of extreme and dangerous heat for much of the week.\n<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures exceeding 95 degrees are almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/phi\/weatherstory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all but guaranteed from Wednesday through Friday<\/a> in the Philadelphia area, according to Michael Silva, a lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.\n<\/p>\n<p>While the city has not officially issued a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-code-red-extreme-heat-homeless-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Code Red\u201d<\/a> yet, the heat health emergency goes into effect when heat indices are forecast to exceed 95 degrees for three consecutive days.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Silva said a high-pressure system settling over the central United States is to blame for the temperatures, bringing hot and humid air into the region.\n<\/p>\n<p>The high humidity will push heat indices, or \u201cfeels-like\u201d temperatures, closer to 110 degrees, he said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77227,69,4001,71,70],"class_list":["post-230779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-250","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230779","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=230779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}