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This extraordinary reading comes hot on the heels of a previous record set on Sunday, when the same buoy in Manatee Bay registered a temperature of 100.2 degrees.
One Western New York town could reach 100 degrees on Friday. Records could be broken across the region.
Major cities in the Northeast and New England, including New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, are under heat alerts through at least Friday as dangerous temperatures that have been scorching the western and southern U.S. over the last several weeks push into the eastern half of the country.
A heat wave is expected to start on Wednesday, with it likely feeling north of 90 degrees each day through Saturday. Heat index values could soar above 100 degrees, even hitting 104 at the peak of the heat wave.
More than 100 degrees at night in Phoenix? All-time highs two years in a row in Rome? Readers are taking note of this climate change-fueled reality.