After setting a record Sunday and aiming at another one Monday, Philadelphia’s longest heat wave of the season to date might execute a dramatic exit. The city's “heat health emergency” remains in effect Monday.
After setting a record Sunday and aiming at another one Monday, Philadelphia’s longest heat wave of the season to date might execute a dramatic exit.remain in effect Monday as the air could be even more infused with shirt-soaking moisture, said Sarah Johnson, warning coordination meteorologist at the weather service’s Mount Holly Office.
Based on an informal survey of fans who attended the Phillies-Chicago Cubs game on an afternoon when shade at Citizens Bank Park was as wanting as the Phillies’ offense, a whole lot of sweltering local residents and visitors would welcome a dose of “normal.” They opted for shade and visited the inflatable mister that the Phillies set up on a concourse near home plate. It wasn’t exactly a cold shower.
“But when I stood up I started feeling dizzy and nauseous,” she said, sitting in one of the air-conditioned lobbies, drinking water and cooling off. Her husband was insistent that they needed to get home. On the West Coast, forecasters warned of extreme heat arriving early this week and lingering until the weekend. Temperatures could break daily records in Seattle, Portland and Northern California by Tuesday and climb to the highest level since a heat wave last year that killed hundreds of people across the Pacific Northwest.
This was the city’s first heat emergency, and the weather service’s first heat warning, of the season.
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