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Get ready for a hot and muggy two days.



Heat advisory issued Thursday with feels-like temps up to 107, severe storms possible later in the day

<p>Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here checking in with our forecast that continues to be hot and humid across the entire area. Here's a look out there right now though, lots of sunshine that is really helping to warm us up for the majority of us. We're looking at fields like temperatures in the low triple digits as we go through the remainder of today, we do have a heat advisory in effect until eight o'clock this evening. What that's saying is we could see heat index values up to about 100 and seven degrees for us today. So it is definitely going to be one if you're outside for any extended period of time to keep the heat in mind. Another thing to consider here, we have a severe risk outlined from the storm prediction center. I really think with the way things are looking currently, this is very much overdone. I don't think we're going to see much in the way of any severe weather or any storms for that matter. Here's a look at futurecast. We go closer to the evening. There's eight o'clock, we are completely quiet there on futurecast, so it would not surprise me if they drop that severe risk tomorrow though, we have another one outlined to level one. And I do think, especially as we get to tomorrow afternoon and evening, we could see a few storms coming through, but the next couple of days it's nothing that I would cancel any plans for. We get closer to Friday night plans. There's at eight o'clock in the evening. If you're headed out for dinner plans, relatively quiet and dry across the area. Just a straight shower is possible. We look at the next seven days. Here's temperatures 96. Today we go to 95 tomorrow weekends, a little bit cooler, at least milder. But then we also see scattered storm chances both Saturday and as we head into Sunday.</p>

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