After a a lot wanted break from the depraved scorching climate, prepare to begin sweating once more.
The warmth and humidity shall be coming again to the Boston space this week, with temps approaching a sweltering 100 levels and it feeling like greater than 100. The most oppressive day is anticipated to be Thursday.
“Following a couple of nice days of relief from the heat and humidity, it will start climbing back this week,” Bill Simpson, meteorologist on the National Weather Service’s Boston workplace, advised the Herald on Sunday.
The final day of July on Sunday with sunshine within the 80s was a “near perfect day” to shut out the summer time month, he famous.
But after the beautiful Sunday, warmth and humidity will enhance all through the week. Temps on Monday must be within the mid-80s earlier than leaping into the low 90s on Tuesday.
Forecasters have their eyes on Thursday when excessive temps ought to attain the higher 90s and warmth index values ought to eclipse 100 levels.
Thankfully, the acute warmth must be brief lived because the sample breaks down round Thursday evening into Friday, forecasters stated. An approaching chilly entrance may ship a spherical of rain showers and thunderstorms, and convey temps down into the 80s.
Even although these rain showers are anticipated, it gained’t present a lot drought aid. The Boston space — and Massachusetts total — is dealing with a major drought after months of little rainfall.
With solely 0.62 inches of rain measured at Boston Logan International Airport throughout July, it was the fourth driest July within the metropolis’s recorded historical past. The driest July in Boston’s historical past was 1952, when 0.52 inches of rain fell.
The 0.62 inches of rain over the last month is lower than 20% of the traditional 3.25 inches of July rain.
The extraordinarily dry July this yr comes after one of many wettest summers in 2021. Last yr was the second wettest July on report as greater than 10 inches of rain fell. Tropical Storm Elsa’s heavy rains helped contribute to that prime complete for the month.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”