The humdidity is particularly bad. I felt and probably will again today, like I was back in Up Nort Wisconsin.
This is from the online Oregonian.
June, which has been averagely high and averagely wet to date in Northwest Oregon, is about to get un-averagely hot.
Think steamy--a kind of Midwestern, humid kind of heat, with high dewpoints, which will shoot the heat indices to near 100 starting Friday and extending into next week.
“The higher the dewpoint, the more humid it is,’’ said Andy Bryant, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Portland. “Our dewpoints are usually pretty low. But when they are high, it’s harder for your body to get rid of heat. It’s going to feel a lot warmer than usual.”
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In other words, you sweat more but the sweat doesn’t evaporate as quickly. People, and pets, tend to wilt.
Bryant said a big dome of high pressure will push heat into the region from Arizona and Utah, where temperatures could push into the 120 range during the next several days. The forecast high in Phoenix today is 119 degrees.
Around here, high temperatures will spike to near 90 Friday through Sunday, before rising into the mid-90s Monday and Tuesday, Bryant said. The heat will again be accompanied by a moist, southerly flow, bringing dewpoints up again into the highly uncomfortable range.
Temperatures will moderate Wednesday into the low to mid-80s, and stay there into the Fourth of July holiday.
Most of the record highs for the next several days are in the high 90s to 100s, so we may not break any records. But it’s going to feel like it.
For relief, Bryant said, head to the coast, where highs will be in the upper 70s, to near 80 degrees. With no fear of dewpoints.
--Stuart Tomlinson
