TAMPA – Record heat has hit Florida hard this weekend and Tampa Bay has now hit a new high temperature milestone.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the temperature hit 100 degrees in Tampa at around 3:10 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
The previous record of 99 degrees was set on June 26, 2020.<\/p>\n
This is the hottest it has ever been in Tampa since record-keeping began in 1890.<\/p>\n
In Tampa, a heat advisory remains in effect until 7 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Big picture view:<\/p>\n
FOX 13 meteorologist Nash Rhodes says a ridge of high pressure (heat dome) and lack of rain allowed for the high temperatures on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He also says it was the perfect combination for super-charged surface heating.<\/p>\n
READ: ‘727 Day’ celebrates community in Pinellas with events, more than 100 deals at local businesses<\/a><\/p>\n Hot temperatures are expected to continue until Tuesday as a heat advisory will be reinstated again from noon until 7 p.m. on Monday, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE:>>> Follow FOX 13 on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by the National Weather Service and FOX 13 meteorologists.<\/p>\n Weather<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA – Record heat has hit Florida hard this weekend and Tampa Bay has now hit a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453,2986],"class_list":{"0":"post-41264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories","14":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}