The heat advisory for the entire region<\/a> has been extended to 8 p.m. Saturday, with more random showers likely. As to when something resembling comfort returns to Philly, \u201cThat\u2019s the million-dollar question,\u201d said Matt Benz, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc.<\/p>\nSimilar conditions could persist into the late next week, he added. <\/p>\n
Highs might not get much past 90, but with the atmosphere this steamy, head indexes up to 104 are possible. Both Camden and Delaware CountiCounty has posted a \u201ccode red\u201d heat advisory, even though the conditions are not expected to approach the official criteria of two consecutive days of highs of at least 95 degrees.<\/p>\n
Waves of air from the Gulf Stream and the Gulf, itself, continue to wash over the mid-Atlantic region, said Brian Hurley, senior branch forecaster at the federal Weather Prediction Center, in College Park, Md., adding that is going to continue.<\/p>\n
On the plus side, drought conditions continue to ease, and officially in Philadelphia, rainfall since Jan. 1 is now about normal, recent rains having wiped out a significant rain deficit. <\/p>\n
However, the rains have come in fits and starts and have been less generous in some areas, and overly generous elsewhere, and have had a knack for outwitting science.<\/p>\n
Those random downpours are going to continue<\/p>\n
\u201cMultiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms each afternoon and evening may become strong to severe,\u201d the National Weather Service in Mount Holly warned Thursday.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t expect much notice.<\/p>\n
Case in point: Around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the weather service posted a missive, \u201cThe threat for flooding has diminished tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shortly thereafter, flood warnings went up for portions of all four of Philly\u2019s Pennsylvania neighboring counties.<\/p>\n
That followed afternoon downpours the caused extensive road flooding in Philly and neighboring areas as a corridor of heavy rain cut thought he city. <\/p>\n
Michael Silva, a meteorologist in the Mount Holly office, was among those who hadn\u2019t seen it coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore work, I was about to go out twice for walks,\u201d Silva said. \u201cThen I looked at the radar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Showers are possible late this afternoon and in the evening, said AccuWeather\u2019s Benz, and they are likely to be more numerous and widespread on Friday.<\/p>\n
The outlook for the weekend for Philly and the Shore<\/p>\n
Saturday is expected to a clone of Thursday, as a so-called Bermuda high pressure system over the North Atlantic continues to lure steamy air northward. Winds circulate clockwise around centers of high pressure; thus, areas to the west of the center, where Philly happens to be, experience winds from the south and southwest.<\/p>\n
Benz sees an outside chance that an approaching front provides a very temporary and modest measure of relief on Sunday. Don\u2019t bet on it, however. He said it is going to encounter a whole lot of resistance along the way.<\/p>\n
The outlooks are similar for the Jersey Shore<\/a>, which is likely to be quite a popular destination this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Skin-clinging humidity, random downpours, heat indexes in triple figures, steamy nights. Welcome to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[110493,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-260512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-flash-flooding-heat-wave-philadelphia-weather-forecast","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260512","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=260512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}