7:00 AM | **Very hot in the Mid-Atlantic next few days...watching the tropics as Tropical Storm "Fred" nears Hispaniola**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metro region
Today
Early day clouds and patchy fog will give way to mainly sunny skies, hot, humid, chance of PM showers and thunderstorms, any storm that forms can be on the strong-to-severe side, highs in the low-to-mid 90’s; SW winds at 5-10 mph
Tonight
Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, chance of evening showers and thunderstorms, any storm that forms can be on the strong-to-severe side, lows in the low-to-mid 70’s
Thursday
Mainly sunny, very hot, humid, slight chance of PM showers and thunderstorms, mid-to-upper 90’s for afternoon highs
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, mild, muggy, chance of evening showers and thunderstorms, mid 70’s for late night lows
Friday
Mainly sunny, hot, humid, chance of PM showers and thunderstorms, low-to-mid 90’s
Saturday
Mainly sunny, not as hot, chance of showers and thunderstorms, upper 80’s
Sunday
Partly sunny, warm, low-to-mid 80’s
Monday
Mainly sunny, warm, low-to-mid 80’s
Discussion
The next few days will be quite hot in the Mid-Atlantic region with afternoon temperatures likely reaching at least the middle 90’s in the Philly metro region. The chance for afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms will continue given the high moisture content and generally unstable atmospheric conditions; however, much of the time will be rain-free. A cold front should arrive on Saturday and provide some relief in temperatures as we head through the upcoming weekend. Elsewhere, a tropical system near the Caribbean island of Hispaniola has intensified enough to be classified as a named storm ("Fred"). It is likely to impact southern Florida by the early part of the weekend and then spill out over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Longer term, it is quite possible that the remains of this tropical storm push northward through the eastern states to potentially result in some rainfall around here sometime later next week.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
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