Pamela. Its very humid out there. Heat advisories in effect as temperatures skyrocket into the 90s. We are dealing with areas of dense fog from taunton into maryland. Portland a quarter of a mile or less. Thats a dense fog advisory, and no advisories posted. Hit or miss, and its not widespread. Be aware, we will reduce visibility this morning. The high humidity, and we are warm. On our way to 90 by midday. We are tracking the potential for heat indexes in the 100s. 100 to about 105 the mid90s across the board, and advisories from noon to 7 00 p. M. Today, and it looks like we will keep the heat around for quite some time and add the chance for a couple of storms into the mix. I will have details coming up in your 7day forecast. Brianna . Pamela, youre slow and go by the gas tanks here at exit 13. Things are slowing down back to exit 11, going all the way up to this point in dorchester, this morning up north, and lets take a look at the maps upnorth if we can. A few things to keep in mi
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You walk outside and it already feels like it is very oppressive. Wherever you see that reddish color, easternmost massachusetts, the dew points are off the charts. This will be with us for the entire day. You can see it is down to about half a mile, so th that it may slow you down this morning. The air quality becomes an issue later today, especially if you have respiratory issues. Keep that in mind for later today. Temperatures were now running in the 70s, as cool as it has been , lowtomid 70s right now and once we burn off the fog sunshine throughout the day, temperatures by noon time around 95 in boston, 98 in lawrence so it will already be feeling close to 90 degrees and that feels like heat index will be around 100 degrees. Lets get you out of the roads, this may slow some folks down. Olessa this stretch looks ok, the expressway by the south a model, and traffic is getting by without any delays. Lets get to the maps and check out the rest of your trip. So far, so good into boston
That is the case this morning. Oh, it just came in there. It is comfortable. It is a tropical air in place, and thats a concern today because you go up into the 90s, and you add all that humidity. Its going to be pretty tough later on today, you can see the red color showing up here across southern new england, and this is the impact of the humidity, just oppressive, dewpoints about as high as they ever get here in southern new england, and this is with us all day long, and resulted in some fog here through the overnight hours, and southern New Hampshire, the visibility a quarter of a mile from lawrence to beverly and back to orange, as well so keep in mind that fog may slow you down. Look at the temperatures, though, already low to mid 70s out there. Worcester 71. Boston 76. The mid 70s on the cape, and it is just so soupy outside this morning. We jump into the 80s by 10 00, and notice partly to mostly sunny skies throughout the day, if you were in the 90s most lawrence this afternoon