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I heart of the heat is along the mississippi river. this is the heat index, the temperature and humidity combined. dew points in the 80s, which means oppressive. dangerous, 116 is what it feels like in memphis, 112? jackson, rock, you know its bad in the south when they break records in little rock in the month of august. theyre going to break a record today. 106. unbelievable heat. it continues through the workweek. maybe down a few degrees but still extremely warm. we have nothing to complain ...

Take it easy and drink plenty of water if youre going to be outside. in terms of the forecast, anot whole lot of relief here. dallas over the century mark, dew points in the mid-70s, and in atlanta, 90s. one place you will see a little bit of relief, the carolinas and the northeast had some cool air come to that neck of the wood. youll be in the 70s to low 80s, so thats one place you want to be if you have a beach vacation there. but heat in the south, stomplz in the -- storms in the upper midwe...

Well. the carolinas in virginia have been hot. one place that remains hot, the deep south. heat advisories and excessive heat warnings. biloxi and northern mississippi into the action. all of louisiana and arkansas as well. it will be over 100 degrees. the heat indeces 105 to 115. not a lot of relief. a long streak of 90 degrees plus days. you will be over the century mark for the next three. memphis in that area down in new orleans. you add to the humidity with dew points in the mid 70s. it wil...

Take a look at the temperatures right now, here is what were looking at. a little better, certainly, a cold front moved through the eastern seaboard and brought heavy rain and thats brought also some very nice relief for the dew points and theyve lowered. much less humid for your day today. look at the satellite radar pictures. as you head across the southeast, florida will have a few thunderstorms and the southeast is near record breaking temperatures across areas of florida and the carolina co...

>> those are the 20%. >> shepard: yesterday the idea was by the time i got off work tonight, everything would be fine. >> by the time you get off work tomorrow, it will be fine. tomorrows highs, back into the 80s. maybe flirting with 90 in new york. friday even better, better over the weekend. you should be around 84 this time of year in new york city. still above average across the area but well take this over 100. >> shepard: 87 looks great. yesterday the humidity -- it was below 30%, the humi...

Even our friends in boston were 95. but what was different yesterday is it was that old dry heat. it was almost desert like in many of these areas. the dew points were very low and it wasnt hazy hot and humid, it was just hot. you notice that one of the hottest spots in the country was that area around philly to new york. the only hotter or big city have you to go out there to phoenix where it was 104. what are we in store for today? it will be a little bit warmer. d.c. about 99. new york city e...

Outside. going to hit you in the face. the humidity is little bit on the low side. these are the dew points. 70s, thats humid. kansas city and dallas. air mass from d.c. to boston not as humid. not quite a dry heat bike the deserts but not the high humidity for the heat index thats up around 110. heat index today about 100 to 105 in the areas and you will see it. 98 in new york today. 99 in d.c. forecast on tuesday does call for even new york city to hit 100 degrees. the last time new york city ...

Chicagos got some great stuff. >> yeah. i was wondering, there are not many people on the beach. then i realize its 9:00 a.m. im surprised there are that many people. theyre getting their spots early. the airports are fine. the weather looks really nice. the exceptions are down f youre traveling to dallas, houston, san antonio, even oklahoma city, thats where you see rain and thunderstorms. possible delays. as of now, green all across the board. weve been talking about the low humidity, chicago ...

Last spring weekend. we jump into summer on monday. this is going down as the warmest global spring season we ever had. also for the month of may, it was the warmest we ever saw. so that is the base facts for what happened in this spring. we jump into summer, it already feels like it. humidity is oppressive. when you get dew points in the 70s from oklahoma city to little rock and nashville, memphis, st. louis, and kansas city, were talking about dangerous heat and dangerous oppressive humidity o...

Subject of a internal investigation that is currently taking place by the seattle police department. severe weather left at least one person dead. the thunderstorm carried winds up to 70 miles per hour which downed trees and also downed power lines. a driver was killed when a fallen tree smashed on top of his car. we want to say good morning to bill karins for a look at the weekend forecast. bill, good morning. >> thomas, what would you consider hot? >> 75 and the studio lights. >> you have to...