Heat Wave Continues Another Day
July 21 2019 - 3:03PM
Dow Jones News
By Scott Calvert
The heat wave over a large section of the U.S. is again wrapping
millions of people in oppressive heat and humidity, a day after
record temperatures were set from the Ohio Valley to the East
Coast.
"It's going to be another scorcher across the Central and
Eastern U.S.," said National Weather Service meteorologist Rich
Otto. But he said a cold front will bring cooler air starting
Monday, and by Tuesday temperatures will be normal or below normal
in much of the country east of the Rockies.
About 72 million people are under excessive-heat warnings
Sunday, down from about 128 million on Saturday, according to the
weather service. High temperatures are expected to reach the
upper-90s to near 100 degrees from eastern Kansas into the Ohio
Valley and from the mid-Atlantic into parts of New England.
High humidity will make it feel like 105 degrees or worse in
areas such as the Interstate 95 corridor from Boston to Raleigh,
N.C., Mr. Otto said. He said the heat index could hit or eclipse
110 degrees in central New Jersey, eastern Virginia and the
Delmarva Peninsula, which includes Delaware and Maryland's Eastern
Shore.
Power companies in the greater New York region had crews working
throughout the weekend to respond to scattered outages.
Consolidated Edison Inc., the utility that powers most of the city,
expects to set a record for Sunday power usage, eclipsing the
record of 11,669 megawatts set Aug. 14, 2016, a spokesman said.
In Cincinnati, fans arriving at sweltering Great American Ball
Park for Saturday evening's Reds-Cardinals baseball game heard a
wintry mix of songs over the stadium sound system, including "Let
It Snow," "Frosty the Snowman" and Foreigner's "Cold as Ice."
Aaron Sharpe, a DJ who picks the stadium's songs, said his
instinct was to play heat-related songs -- but he decided to go
cold. "These people are hot enough as it is, we don't need to
remind them of that fact," he said.
Saturday's heat broke or tied records in a number of East Coast
cities, Mr. Otto said. Millinocket, Maine, reached 93 degrees,
tying a record for the date. Manchester, N.H., set a record for the
date of 97 degrees, breaking a mark set in 1949. And it hit 99
degrees at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the
highest on record for July 20.
At the same time, about 40 U.S. cities on Saturday tied or broke
records for the highest minimum temperature on that date, as
overnight temperatures remained in the high-70s or above 80 degrees
across much of the Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic and New England.
In Annapolis, Md., Saturday's sultry low of 84 degrees broke a
record for July 20. On Saturday, New York's Central Park didn't get
below 82 degrees. That tied the record-high minimum for the date
and was two degrees below the warmest low temperature observed for
any date since record-keeping began back in 1869: 84 degrees.
--Keiko Morris contributed to this article.
Write to Scott Calvert at scott.calvert@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 21, 2019 14:48 ET (18:48 GMT)
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