Seattle weather: 90s, potential storms and then a cooldown

Well, hi there everyone from the FOX 13 Weather Center. I'm meteorologist Ilona McAuley. The much advertised heat has arrived and it is arrived in a big way. We've got some of the locations around western Washington expected to see some of the hottest temperatures so far this year. Today and tomorrow we are going to continue to see that hot conditions and the hazy conditions continue into Wednesday with another day with the heat advisory. All of this of course is going to continue to increase the fire danger through much of the week. We have a chance for some thunderstorms once again on Thursday. We'll show you that coming up and then finally starting to see some slightly cooler temperatures by the time we get into the end of the week and the weekend. The smoky skies are sticking around as well for at least another few days. The wind direction of course with those offshore flow winds will continue to push the smoke in from eastern Washington as well as over the border in parts of Columbia. That smoke will impact more of Skagit and Whatcom County. By the time we get into Wednesday evening though, you can start to see the wind direction turning so that onshore flow will help to push the smoke back off to the east just a bit. Not going to clear it out totally, but it'll look much different by the time we get into the middle and the end of the week. Look at the roller coaster of temperatures. We're going to go from 94 degrees tomorrow, then cooling off into those low eighties for thursday friday and then finally back down into what I like to call the Goldilocks weather with those temperatures back into the seventies. Checking out that future cast, not much in the way of rainfall as we mentioned for us today or tomorrow, we will start to see the remnants of that tropical system elida pushing in some of that moisture coming in from the south once again. And that's where we have the potential of seeing one or two isolated chances for showers, maybe a rumble of thunder. The best chances would be in some of the locations around the cascades and the cascade foothills. We'll watch it closely, especially for the fact that we could potentially talking about some additional lightning and then finally it will push out of here pretty quickly. Thereafter storm prediction center does like the chance for those weak storms mainly off to the south come late Wednesday night, a little more widespread as we get into thursday. And of course this is not where we want to see that is in eastern Washington and in central Washington where it's already really dry. But we'll continue to hone, hone in on that forecast and watch it really closely as we get to thursday tonight. Not a lot of relief from the heat. It is going to be uncomfortable sleeping today and tomorrow 65 for the overnight low will be at 63 in Shelton high temperatures tomorrow, 94 Seattle triple digits in Centralia. That's not the only place to, we're going to continue to see 100 degrees possible out there in Issaquah upper nineties expected on the east side in Bellevue and down into Pierce County as well. Your seven day forecast will show we back off that heat for thursday friday and then finally cooling off even more by the time we get into the weekend and on into early next week.