Thunderstorms rumbling through the Northeast have only provided a brief respite from record-breaking heat.
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00:00Strong thunderstorms will bring drenching rain tonight into the upper Midwest of southern Minnesota, northern parts of Iowa, and into Wisconsin.
00:07And we're still dealing with these repetitive storms at times. These are going to reactivate tomorrow.
00:12There are some signals that we might have a little cluster of thunderstorms on a smaller scale tonight in the middle of the night,
00:18but a better chance during the day tomorrow will return behind the storms that we're facing right now in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and elsewhere.
00:26Saturday, the more widespread, potentially stronger storms will break out into parts of Iowa with a severe risk extending into southern sections of Wisconsin along the front.
00:36East to the front, southeast to the front, it will still be hot.
00:39Now, back on June 22nd of 1988, it was really hot.
00:44Huntington hit 98 degrees. We're looking at 94 this June 22nd.
00:49Chicago hit 97. That was a hot summer there, a dangerous heat wave in June and July of 1988.
00:55Chicago, we're looking at 90 this time around, so nowhere near the record there.
00:58But we're going to be closer to the record in Columbus, 1888, 1988, hot years there, and then 2022.
01:03And in Harrisburg, we're looking to break a record tomorrow by a degree.
01:07More intense thunderstorms break out into Iowa and southern Wisconsin with the front tomorrow with wind and hail, as we mentioned, and the flash flood threat is substantial too.
01:17There is a risk of isolated tornadoes in this area as well.
01:20And then some strong storms will be firing and rumbling across northern and central Pennsylvania into upstate New York too.
01:26Sunday, we begin to get a lot more relief here in the upper Midwest, but strong and severe storms will be rumbling.
01:32St. Louis to Indianapolis, ahead of the front into Toledo and Cleveland, and we'll keep an eye out for some of them.
01:38On Saturday, again, farther east, the heat and the storms.
01:42The heat's going to be real significant farther south, but the thunderstorm threat is going to be popping in the afternoon, and here comes our front on Sunday.
01:49We're waiting for it. It's still really hot on Sunday into the mid-Atlantic.
01:52In fact, this is the peak of the heat wave into areas around Baltimore and Washington.
01:57And the rounds of storms will be rumbling through the Great Lakes and into upstate New York on Sunday, and we need to wait for that front to really arrive.
02:05That won't occur until Monday in many of these areas here near I-95.
02:10So Sunday, that leaves us on the hot side of the front, and this is going to be the peak of the heat wave in Washington, D.C., 101 degrees there.
02:18The record high for June 23rd, 98 from 1874. We did it again in 1988. We're going to be hotter than that.
02:25Baltimore, 1894. We hit 97 on June 23rd. We're looking at also 2010.
02:30This year, 101 degrees. Very hot out there.
02:33In Philly, we'll probably tie the record from June 23rd of 1888, maybe a degree hotter than 1894, into Trenton.
02:40And in Binghamton, we'll tie the record with 1975 at 89. Very steamy out there.