The heat and humidity in the Northeast will end with a bang as severe weather precedes a cold front that will cause temperatures to drop.
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00:00 Looking across New England today,
00:01 sticky and steamy.
00:02 Look at temperatures in the 90s and
00:05 even the upper 80s in Burlington,
00:07 the lone city here on the board
00:09 with a thunderstorm in your
00:11 AccuWeather exclusive forecast.
00:12 Not thunderstorms all day long for Burlington,
00:15 but a spotty storm,
00:16 especially in the afternoon,
00:17 will keep things just a tiny bit cooler
00:20 than let's say Hartford, Connecticut.
00:22 At 99 degrees today,
00:23 that's brutal for any time of year,
00:26 considering Hartford should be at 79.
00:28 A 20 degree difference.
00:30 Now we do have AccuWeather real
00:32 field temperatures here along I-95
00:33 back into the 90s and even triple digits.
00:36 Cities like Boston,
00:37 Hartford, Providence,
00:38 all the way back down toward Atlantic City,
00:41 Washington DC,
00:42 Baltimore and Virginia Beach are
00:43 going to feel like they're close
00:45 to 105 degrees today.
00:46 You might notice,
00:47 so if you've been watching this week
00:50 and you should be that these AccuWeather
00:52 real field temperatures are a little
00:54 bit more limited toward the coastline
00:56 than they have been the past few days.
00:58 Why? Because of this right here,
01:00 we have a cold front moving through
01:02 the Northeast and it is bringing
01:04 showers and thunderstorms and it
01:06 will cause problems,
01:06 but the silver lining is that it's
01:08 helping to get rid of some of that heat.
01:11 Now in terms of the problems,
01:13 well, they're pretty big.
01:14 We have the potential for strong to
01:16 even severe thunderstorms today in
01:18 major cities like Burlington back
01:19 toward Buffalo, Pittsburgh,
01:20 even as you're heading down toward
01:22 the nation's capital,
01:23 even into Albany, New York.
01:24 We have that potential for damaging
01:26 gusty winds and some really heavy rain.
01:28 As we move into Friday,
01:30 it's more of the same story,
01:32 the same front in the same upper
01:34 level system that's causing all the problems.
01:36 Well, doesn't really want to
01:37 go anywhere very quickly,
01:39 so these thunderstorms just move
01:40 a scooch out to the East,
01:42 including now cities like Manchester,
01:43 NH, Worcester, MA,
01:44 back out toward Hartford,
01:45 New Haven into Long Island and New York
01:48 all the way to Philadelphia and Washington DC.
01:50 It's the same problem that we're looking at here.
01:53 Damaging gusty winds and heavy rain.
01:55 Really honing in on that heavy rain threat.
01:57 Considering it's been such a wet end of
01:59 the summer across the Northeast,
02:01 especially into New England,
02:02 and we do have more in the way of that
02:04 heavy rainfall right to the West of I-95,
02:06 the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania,
02:08 back on towards Southern New York
02:09 and even out toward the Berkshires.
02:11 Make sure you are staying tuned to
02:13 the forecast as localized flash
02:14 flooding as possible,
02:15 even as we head to the weekend and those
02:17 thunderstorms don't quite leave just yet.
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