{"id":260306,"date":"2026-08-06T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:42:08","slug":"philadelphia-weather-heat-advisory-issued-as-6th-heat-wave-of-summer-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260306\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia weather: Heat advisory issued as 6th heat wave of summer begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dbd6uw8tr7t7q5w5.jpg\" alt=\"Philadelphia weather: Thursday forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dbd6uw8tr7t7q5w5.jpg\" alt=\"Philadelphia weather: Thursday forecast\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-50c11e5b=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Philadelphia area is bracing for the start of its sixth heatwave of the summer on Thursday, with sweltering hot temperatures and added humidity.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for most of the Philadelphia area starting Thursday through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The advisory calls for sweltering hot temperatures that will combine with humidity to make it feel like 100 degrees or hotter.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Forecasters say it will like the mid-90s on Thursday morning, and triple digits during the early afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A similar weather day will follow on Friday, with temperatures expected to climb into the 90s and feel even hotter.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Philadelphia area is expected to officially reach its sixth heat wave of the summer on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Forecasters say both Saturday and Sunday will be hot and humid as the region remains locked into a steamy weather pattern.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Philadelphia area is bracing for the start of its sixth heatwave of the summer on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139,539,69,71,70,593,1133],"class_list":["post-260306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260306","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=260306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}