Record Setting Labor Day Weekend....The Heat is On!

As I sit here at the keyboards on this Friday morning heading into Labor Day, the last big Holiday of the warm weather period, I note that it is already 75 degrees at 6am.....it's going to get worse before it improves, and that won't come until later in the weekend.  It will hot, record hot, for today and tomorrow, in Ohio, and the temperatures and conditions are going to be mighty uncomfortable for players and fans alike on the football gridirons tonight at the High School level, and tomorrow when the first weekend of college football kicks into high gear....

Friday September 2nd  Record High near 98 under sunny skies
tonight it will drop down to the upper 70s before daybreak
Saturday another Record possible  High of 96 and finally with a front coming through, the high Sunday in the lower 80s with a 60% of storms...Monday Labor Day will see more fall like conditions with a high in the low 70s ....let's say 71 and a low overnight 49, the coolest since May.

Photo-Gulls, Ducks, and other Waterfowl frolic in Grand Lake as Summer winds down....

July 21st on Average the Hottest Day of the Year....and today is no exception

One month past the official beginning of Summer, the worm starts to turn...so they say.  July 21st is on average, the hottest day of the year here in the northern hemisphere...in western Ohio, it appears today will indeed be our high mark for temperatures...with maybe, just maybe, a slight decrease in temperatures to follow.

Today, Thursday July 21, 2011:  Near Record Temperatures and a Heat Warning...High near 100 under mostly sunny skies....tonight partly cloudy and a low about 80.

Tomorrow as the Grand Lake Festival in Celina kicks off, the chance of rain will pick up....30% chance of storms, with a high of 95...rain chances increasing during the weekend to come. 

Photo-Grand Lake at the coolest point of the day, just before sunrise this morning...the temperature on the in-car thermometer read 78...

Record Heat on the Way?

The hot, humid, dangerous heat indices weather continues through the weekend...and tomorrow we may see triple digits in western Ohio...

Celina and the Grand Lake Region saw some spotty, but welcome, downpours early yesterday morning, then again before nightfall last night....that will give way to oppressive heat and humidity for the next few days, with tomorrow being the worst of the bunch:

Wednesday July 20th...Partly Cloudy, Hot, and Humid high of 97
tonight...humid conditions under partly cloudy skies low 78
Thursday July 21st...near record heat, with dangerous conditions to continue..High 100

Rain is possible with storms and high humidity through the coming weekend:

photo-from July 19, 2011...West Bank area Park at Grand Lake, Celina, Ohio....Ducks and a Blue Heron move on and over the lake at Sunrise:  Photo-Copyright protected by Pat Houseworth