A fairly standard but quite hot summertime pattern takes residence this week, keeping temperatures quite warm — perhaps threatening records at times — with the risk for a few afternoon thunderstorms each day.

Lows each day will start out in the upper 70s away from the coast, while temperatures may not fall below 80° downtown this week. This won’t offer much relief from highs that peak in the mid-to-upper 90s each afternoon. Dewpoints in the mid-70s over the first half of the week should drive heat indices into the upper 100s to 110° at peak heating, prompting some Heat Advisories. While some drier air looks to mix down each afternoon during the second half of the week, air temperatures will soar into the upper 90s away from the coast, while downtown will top out in the mid-90s. Dewpoints downtown will run a few degrees warmer than further inland due to proximity to the water, and so even though air temperatures will be lower, it’ll still feel like the mid-to-upper 100s — perhaps close to Heat Advisory territory.

Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms should develop each afternoon along and ahead of the seabreeze. As is often the case in summer, organized thunderstorms are not expected, with pulse storms developing and collapsing, producing outflow boundaries that will kick off additional storms. Where boundaries and/or the seabreeze collide, a stronger storm with damaging wind gusts will be possible. Not everyone will see a storm every day — in fact, there’s a nonzero chance some of you may be shut out of rain — but where storms do fall, a quick inch or two of rain is possible. Given the ongoing drought, we’ll welcome it however we can get it.

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