EVANSVILLE – If you don’t know what 114 degrees feels like, you’ll get a chance to correct that next week.
That’s how high heat indexes could reach in the Evansville area as residents endure yet another brutally hot stretch in a summer that’s been full of them.
Kate Hickford with the Paducah, Kentucky office of the National Weather Service said the feel-like temperature could hit 107 Thursday after hovering around 105 a lot of the day Wednesday. That heat will stick around all weekend – and only get worse at the beginning of next week.
The heat index Monday will be around 105 again. Tuesday, meanwhile, “looks awful,” she said, with feel-like temperatures potentially reaching 110 or greater.
The peak – or nadir, depending on how you look at it – will arrive Wednesday, July 23, when that unspeakable 114-degree figure comes into play.
It’ll be horribly humid in Evansville, too
That will all come with a thick stew of humidity. Hickford said the dew points will stall out in the mid to upper 70s.
That will make the atmosphere feel like a heavy, wet blanket – and bring lingering chances of rain. According to the NWS long-term forecast, the Evansville-area has anywhere from a 20% to 60% of rain through Saturday.
Oppressive summer heat
This hot stretch is just the latest in what’s been a consistently stifling summer.
Late June brought a “heat dome” that ballooned Evansville heat indexes to 104 degrees or more. Between June 21 and June 27, the actual high temperature never dipped below 94 degrees, NWS records state.
So far this month, the high daily temperature has been 90 or hotter 12 of 16 days. That batting average will only increase in the next week.
This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: It’s going to be really, really hot in Evansville for quite a while
Reporting by Jon Webb, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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