High heat and humidity expected through Saturday

This is a 22 news storm team weather alert. Hey, good morning to now 642. It is July 1st and of course July, the hottest month of the year for us and definitely starting off like that. We have the 20 to storm team weather alert that is up because of the high heat and humidity over the coming days. Our live camera network here is starting to show some of the sun trying to come out and we'll see a sun and cloud mix for much of the day. Extreme heat warning is up for pretty much all of western massachusetts until eight p.m. On saturday, the fourth of july for heat index values well into the triple digits. Northern Berkshire County here under a heat advisory until eight p.m. On friday. So you get the idea. Pretty much everyone is under heat alerts and it will be very hot over the coming days. Got that breeze coming in right out of the south temperatures out there into the upper sixties or 68 in Springfield and Greenfield. Also Westfield 69 the warm spot there in Great Barrington and also these dew points are in the mid to upper sixties. So it is going to be quite muggy when you walk outside and I expect that by this afternoon we'll see these dew points getting into the seventies. So it will be a very humid, hot day. Air temperature will climb into the upper nineties to around 100 degrees by this afternoon. When you factor in the humidity, it will feel like we're in the triple digits, but it actually gets even hotter over the next few days. Our all time record high temperature for Westover Air Reserve base is 102 degrees set back on June 26 of 1952. So definitely an impressive record and we're actually forecasting a high temperature of 102 for the day tomorrow. So that all time high record temperature for our area is in jeopardy and we'll keep an eye on that for tomorrow. There are some models I want to push us a little over 102 and that's the air temperature. That's not factoring the humidity 100 degrees on Friday and we'll be into the upper nineties for the day on the 4th of July. Our average highest time of year 82 degrees. Looking at the humidity here, we're going to stay very humid dew points in the seventies for today, tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow will be the peak of the heat and humidity and then we'll try to see these temperatures and humidity try to fall back a little bit going into this weekend. But you factor in air temperature and the humidity, you get what it feels like when you walk outside. It will feel like upwards of 105 for the date for this afternoon, 110 potentially for tomorrow, 107 on Friday and then we'll try to bring down the temperatures a little bit for the weekend. Uh heat index still around 100 degrees for the down Saturday for the 4th of July. So right now we're nice and dry, taking a wider view on clouds of radar. Much of the region's fine as we go throughout the rest of the day, we'll see the clouds try to really start to get out of here. Sun and cloud mix. Maybe a passing shower can't be ruled out in a few towns, very isolated as we go into this afternoon with some of that really high humidity developing. But again, I would say the majority of us stay dry and then as we go into the evening looking fine. So big story, the heat 96 to 100 for the high temperature for today, you factor in the humidity will feel like we're over 100 degrees for most of us as we go through tonight, not too much relief. We'll see temperatures into the seventies, it will stay humid as we go through tonight as well. And we only get hotter going into the day for tomorrow. Sunny temperatures in the low 100s for the day on thursday and friday and heat index values over 105 degrees by the weekend will be into the nineties for the fourth of july and also sunday. And then we finally see the heat and humidity break heading into the next week back to the eighties for monday and tuesday, nighttime temperatures, seventies and sixties. Once you got our latest forecast, you could do so by getting the free twin to do bubble lab