After yesterday's scorcher, calmer days ahead

Yesterday marked record temperatures for many counties across the US as well as the Northeast. As you can see in the map below, much of the region was baking in the 80's with no shortage of sunshine to make the temps feel even hotter. There were plenty of 90's as well as you go into NJ and southbound.

The reason though why it felt much worse though was because of the high humidity as well as the fact that lows were still in the 70's for the NY metro area or the upper 60's for New England, meaning that there was no break from the hot weather. For those without central air or a good AC system, this also meant that your houses were unable to take a break and take in some of the cooler air to prepare for the hot day.

Enough about yesterday though, onto today:

It will be anywhere from 7-13° cooler today than it was yesterday across the Northeast, with clouds and showers during the day tapering off in the afternoon and leading into sunny skies. Those showers on the radar currently located in western PA will hit the NY metro area in the afternoon, but everything farther to the west will miss us completely.

The same can't be said unfortunately for places like Minnesota. As you can see they have a very large area of heavy showers and thunderstorms drenching the state, and the chance for showers/storms will continue for them over the next 5 days.

Back to the Northeast though, once we get rid of the showers today, Friday Saturday Sunday even into Monday looks like we'll have plenty of sunshine, and more manageable temperatures in the mid-upper 70's. Looking forward to it.

-Mike Merin