AccuWeather Meteorologist Reveals Where Real-Feel Temperature Will Be Over 100 Degrees Fahrenheit

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On "Forbes Newsroom," AccuWeather meteorologist Paul Pastelok discussed the heat wave roiling the U.S. and the forecast for the next few days.

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00:00So I said the Northeast and much of the U.S. is bracing for a heat wave. Let's

00:04zoom out Paul. How many states, how many people will be affected by this heat

00:09wave? Well we're estimating about a hundred and thirty five million plus are

00:14going to be affected by this heat wave and it extends already have started

00:18actually across the lower Mississippi Valley, the Tennessee Valley. For example

00:23Memphis has already seen five days of 90 plus heat already and the heat and its

00:27indices have been up as well and this is extending all the way into the

00:31Chicago, Detroit areas at present time and working its way now into the

00:35Northeast. So New York City, Boston all going to be in play for this heat wave

00:40coming up. New York City, Boston in play. How hot will it get? What is the forecast

00:46for today, tomorrow, Thursday, Friday and beyond? Yeah and you know we're going to

00:52be looking at a lot of these places all above 90 degrees. Your factory and

00:55humidity as well is going to feel like it's over a hundred but some places in

00:58the Northeast are going to get a little hotter depending on your where you're

01:02located and we're the situation of this upper high pressure area that we're

01:07looking at over the Mid-Atlantic states. It's over top that we're going to see

01:11the hottest air coming across and so places across the interior Northeast

01:15like Albany, New York, Hartford, Connecticut, even parts of Vermont and

01:20New Hampshire, some of those areas that are on the east side down sloping wind

01:24they could experience temperatures well into the 90s even approaching 100

01:29degrees. Going back to the West, Chicago, today is the day that they could even

01:33approach 100 degrees and that's you know you factor in the humidity it feels even

01:38about 5 to 10 degrees higher. So a very hot day here for the Midwest the peak of

01:43it coming tomorrow in the Northeast. Wow so you said humidity obviously makes it

01:48feel hotter. Is that 5 to 10 degree extra heat? Is that the rule always? So if the

01:54temperature is 95 degrees and we have a certain percent humidity it will always

01:58feel like a hundred? Well we have a we have a standard we have a thing that we

02:04call the AccuWeather real field temperature. It factors in wind, sun and

02:09relative humidity all those kind of variables into the forecast and

02:13depending on where you're at it could be even worse. If you're in Arizona a lot of

02:18times it's a little drier so it doesn't feel as hot from the air temperature as

02:22much but when you're in the South Southern Plain States lower Mississippi

02:26Valley you can tack on even another 8-10 degrees because of the humidity. So it

02:30depends on the situation and it depends on where you're at to where that range

02:35is going to be on top of the actual air temperature.

AccuWeather Meteorologist Reveals Where Real-Feel Temperature Will Be Over 100 Degrees Fahrenheit

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