Hot weather continues for much of the upcoming week, but as the ridge of high pressure that’s baking us slides westward, that will allow for some moisture to work its way back in, inviting showers and thunderstorms to develop each afternoon on the seabreeze.

First, though, we need to get through Monday. The Extreme Heat Warning will continue overnight Sunday into much of Monday with sweltering conditions occurring even overnight as air temperatures fall to just around 80° while heat indices remain above the 90s heading into Monday morning. Once the sun comes up, temperatures should once again soar well into the upper 90s, and may touch 100° at a few spots as well. Dewpoints in the mid-to-upper 70s will once again send heat indices well toward the 113° mark, which is why the Extreme Heat Warning will continue into Monday evening. However, there will be a risk for a few more thunderstorms in the afternoon with the ridge weakening and retrograding westward. Given the very hot weather, instability will be easy to come by, and a few storms could be on the strong or even severe side, so we’ll need to keep an eye on that.

Monday will represent the peak of the heat wave, but we’ll continue to see hot weather for much of the rest of the week, with heat indices 105-108° remaining common each afternoon through Friday. Additional heat advisories will be possible, but there will also be better chances of relief from thunderstorms each afternoon, with rain chances increasing as we head into Friday and the weekend as a front pushes southward. This should help bring the heat wave to an end with highs perhaps dropping into the upper 80s on Saturday and even the mid-80s on Sunday, albeit with widespread shower and storm chances. (If it’s not one, it’s the other, after all.)

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