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The dog days of summer are in full swing this weekend, with plenty of people looking for someplace to cool off.
Saturday
It will be a hot Saturday throughout the southern Plains, Midwest, South, Southeast and the East Coast. Highs will be in the 90s, with a few triple-digit readings across parts of Texas, the southern High Plains and across the interior South, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. High humidity will make it feel even hotter, with dangerous triple-digit heat indices. A few scattered showers and thunderstorms will pop-up across the Deep South and Southeast, bringing only temporary hot weather relief.
The Upper Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and northern New England will be on the northern fringes of the heat, which will also be the location for thunderstorms. A few organized storms will produce damaging winds and hail along with downpours capable of flash flooding. The northern Plains and northern Rockies will be mild with highs in the low to middle 70s.
Thunderstorms will also pop-up along the central Rockies spine and a cloud burst producing flash flooding cannot be ruled out in a few of the canyons and valleys. The rest of the West will be quiet. Temperatures will be in the 70s and 80s throughout the Northwest and Mountain West, with the Southwest, southern California and Great Basin being in the 90s. The low desert locations will eclipse 100 degrees.
Sunday
Signs of the heat wave breaking will become more prominent Sunday. A weak front will battle the hot air and produce thunderstorms from the central Plains eastward into the central Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, eastern Plains and Appalachians into the Mid-Atlantic. Even with these storms, temperatures will still be in the 80s and low 90s.
The Southeast, South and Southern Plains will still be locked in the hot and humid pattern. Temperatures will be in the 90s Sunday afternoon, with heat indices near 100 degrees. A few showers and thunderstorms will pop-up, but that will do little to cool things down.
The Northern and north-central Plains, Upper Midwest and northwestern Great Lakes will have the nicest weather of the weekend. A refreshing air-mass diving out Canada will produce lower humidity and temperatures in the 70s and low 80s.
Outside of afternoon thunderstorms developing over the Rockies, the Western U.S. will remain quiet and hot. Highs will be in the 90s and 100 in the Southwest and southern California, with 80s found in the rest of California, the Mountain West and the Northwest.