KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Good Saturday bloggers,
The rain is over for now and the water in the ground is going to slowly evaporate — plus the normal summer humidity will add up to extreme humidity.
The dew point will likely reach 80° at some point this weekend.
The highest dew point ever recorded in the U.S. was 90° in Appleton, Wisconsin, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and 91° in Melbourne, Florida. The highest in the world was 95° in Saudi Arabia.
I have a quick lesson on the dew point in the video below.
Temperatures will not be that extreme, but with the extreme humidity, the heat index will climb to as high as 110° to 115°.
The rain chance is low this weekend, but we have plenty of fuel for thunderstorms with the extreme humidity and average heat.
In order to get thunderstorms, we need the fuel to be triggered to develop thunderstorms. There are some small, hard to detect triggers the next several days — this is what makes the forecast tricky.
Have a great weekend and stay healthy!
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