G od morningd welcome to news 4 midday. We begin with our weather alert. Right now were under anxc eessive heat warning. In fact, 31 states are under some kind of heat alert. That means 150 Million People are impacted by this weather. And the feels like temperatures are going to t 100 degrees today. Yo think thats ba oh, baby just you wait until tomorrow. Lets get the stage set herem storm t4 meteorologist chuck now. Joins us breakdown what we can expect. Heat indexes running 105 to 110 degrees for three days in a row. , tomorrow and again on sunday. Hazy skies an code orange air quality. So folks that have respir ory or cardiac sensitivities, this is not the weather you want to be spending outside. Theres the excesse heat warning outside for all of the listening areanow. Heat index values over 110 degrees, onespecially saturday. Saturday i think will be the peak of the heat wave. Right now itslready 90 degrees with the heat index close to 100 degrees at 11 02 in the morning. Ur theres
Degrees. By 7 00 p. M. Low 90s but its feeling close to 100 when you factor in the mugginess. Most of us are dryt there. I cant rule out a few isolated showers and thunderstorms, in especially northern virginia. Again, most of us are dry. Everybody is warm. That should say 81 at 11 00 p. M. , but it will feel more like 91 at 11 00 p. M. When you factor in the humidity. Heres the latest check of storm team 4ar rad the d. C. Metro area is looking dry. Back to the west, showers into washington county,he panhandle of West Virginia and out into lualay. This is about the dangerous heat. More on how hot it will feel as the week wears on coming up in my fl forecast right around 4 20. Thanks, amelia. Folks, as those temperatures rise well be on weather alert later this week, and the best h thing toe with you, our nbc washington app. That or a fan. Can you make weather your home page there and getts alerent right to your phone at any time. Pat . Its been one year since a 10yearold girl sitting o
105 in frederick, maryland, and 112 degrees ileesburg right now. Heres the latest warning. Everybody here in pink is under an excessive heat warning until 9 00 p. M. Tonight. For feelslike temperatures until 9 00 p. M. , around 100 degrees or hotter. Again, we have a heat warning in effect for tomorrow and a heat ay. Ch in effect for su for your evening planner, check it out. At 90 degrees right now. It still feels like 105 degrees at 7 00 p. M. 9 00 p. M. The sun is down and still feeling like 100 degrees out there, and by 11 00 p. M. It feels like 95 degrees. Now coming up at about 4 20, im going to be walking you throughout your day tomorrow hour by hour with the feelslike temperature and also breaking down what is the difference between a watch and ag . Warn pat, back for you. Thanks, amelia. Our coverage of this dangerous heat is just getting started. Coming up in five minutes were working for you on how to save on your electric bill. Then later in the hour your heat and your heal
It is very niceut there. We will stay in the mid70s as we go through the 7 00 a. M. Hour. Plenty of sunshine once that sun comes up and that will take our temperature into the upper 80s today. Now yesterday weere about 94 degrees where we topped out. Looking a lot better out there today. Not a lot going on in radar. High pressure over us and give us blue skies out there throughout the day today. Looking pretty good. Now, head down to our friend in ae south. Tropical depression,ng probably dowded there throughout the day today. A lot of moisture still associated with and heavy rain working its way up through the missivyippi valley and h rain down through louisiana where i see a Flash Flood Warning pop up down there. We are watching the rain that will make the way through midwest and to the middle east and midatlantic and extremely hot temperatures. The hottest we have seen so this summer. We will talk about that coming up but lets talk about the road with melissa. Good mornind gmorning.
We tve back into mid70s and then upper 80s for day time highs today which is about normal for this time of year. Dry out there. Low humidity. Also patchy fog in some spots but we are dry and quiet out there this morning not quiet everywhere. We continue to track this moisture and its a lot of moisture moving in from barry. Take a look at the rain moving into louisiana and jackson, pp mississi we will continue to see heavy rain push into the midatlantic. We will talk about that and talk about the heat and humidity heading our way and some of the hottest temperatures we have seen yet this year is coming up. First, lets talk to melissa with traffic. Good morning. Connecticut avenue at university boulevardhopper 4 over this. Sounded like an unconscious person in a vehiclehere. They have rescue there on the scene so a ttle bit of a southbound delay on connecticut avenue there at university boulevard. Inner loop express lanes add dd bk road have opened but ride of the roadway a slow down bec