Heat advisory in effect on Friday, hot and humid weekend ahead in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — If you thought it was hot and humid on the Fourth of July, get ready to bake and sweat even more on Friday.
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for all counties along the I-95 corridor and the Lehigh Valley both Friday and Saturday, as temps will top out between 90 and 95 degrees, with feels-like temps over 100 degrees.
The hottest time of the day will be between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., which is also when the greatest chance for pop-up storms will occur. That small chance of rain will increase more on Saturday - the main highlight of Friday's weather is the heat.
At this point the region is under the "general thunderstorms" (non-severe) category, but we will be watching for any stronger storms to develop. Take all the necessary heat-related precautions and stay in the air conditioning whenever possible.
Around late afternoon and especially closer to 5 p.m. Saturday we'll see the best chance for scattered showers and storms as a cold front approaches from the west.
The cold front doesn't bring us much relief, but by Sunday we'll feel a slight reduction in the humidity. It will still be hot with highs in the low 90s.
In the tropics, Hurricane Beryl remains a dangerous hurricane, making landfall on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula on Friday morning.
The National Hurricane Center says the center of Beryl made landfall on the coast of the peninsula, just northeast of Tulum.
Beryl has weakened to a strong Category 2 with winds at 110 mph, just below the cutoff for a Category 3.
Eventually the storm will head toward southern Texas and should arrive there by Monday after crossing the Gulf of Mexico. While it will be much weaker, it could bring flooding rains to an area recently impacted by Alberto.
Keep it close to CBS Philadelphia as we continue to monitor the tropics and forecast for the upcoming holiday weekend.
Here's your 7-day forecast:
Friday: High of 93, low of 74, hot, isolated storm
Saturday: High of 91, low of 78, storms likely
Sunday: High of 91, low of 76, partly sunny
Monday: High of 93, low of 76, some sun, a storm
Tuesday: High of 91, low of 75, p.m. t-storm
Wednesday: High of 89, low of 74, a few storms
Thursday: High of 87, low of 73, partly cloudy
