July 27, 2008: 7:45pm

---CAMP LEGACY FORECAST---

I can not help but being excited for summer youth camp coming up August 3-6. Many people from this camp will come to the blog looking for this forecast. For this reason, the beginning of every day's post will begin with the CAMP LEGACY FORECAST. For the rest of the forecast for the next 6 days, please scroll down...

Sunday, August 3: Mostly sunny with a high of 93 and a low of 72.
Monday, August 4: Mostly sunny with a high of 92 and a low of 74.
Tuesday, August 5: Partly cloudy with a high of 95 and a low of 76.
Wednesday, August 6: Partly sunny with a 20% storm chance. High of 94 and a low of 75.

Now remember, the chance of this forecast being exactly right is very small, so keep checking back here at the blog every night for a new Camp Legacy forecast update...

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A midsummer nightmare...

Tomorrow and Tuesday will bring a HEAT WAVE into our area. The temperatures will not be records, but the dewpoints will be out the roof. Monday will have temperatures in the lower to middle 90's, but with dewpoints nearing 70 in the late afternoon, the heat indexes will be from 97-102 across the entire area depending on the temperature and dewpoint.

Just when you think it CAN'T get worse, it will on Tuesday. Temperatures will be in the middle 90's, with even a few spots getting into the upper 90's. However, with dewpoints in the lower to middle 70's, this will feel much hotter and oppressive. Heat indexes will be from 100-105 degrees on Tuesday.

Notice that the storm chance is gone for Monday and Tuesday. Along with this, the winds will be down, so haze will cover the sky, especially over urbanized areas. This will cause terrible air quality for the sensitive, so AIR QUALITY ALERTS will most likely be issued for Monday and Tuesday.

However, the storm chance will return for Wednesday and Thursday. The remnants of Hurricane Dolly will sweep through the area, giving us a relatively good chance of heavy rain from Wednesday night through Thursday afternoon. 1-2 inches of rain is possible, along with some gusty winds.

Before it hits, however, temperatures on Wednesday will rise to near or just above 90. With extremely high humidities, some places may see heat indices rise to near 100. Thursday will be very humid but the the rain cooled middle 80's.

Thus, Monday-Wednesday afternoon are in a CODE ORANGE for excessive heat and humidity, while Wednesday late afternoon-Thursday night are in a code orange for the potential for heavy rainfall.

Friday-Saturday will be drying out with average late July conditions. Temperatures will still run in the upper 80's to near 90, but the oppressive humidities will leave for the time being.

Alex C.