The suffocating summer heat will linger on parts of the East Coast Tuesday as eyes turn to the Gulf of Mexico for possible tropical developments.
While a few degrees lower than Monday, the afternoon high temperatures in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast will be above average again on Tuesday and the rest of the week.
The high heat and humidity will make you feel over 100 degrees, especially in areas from Chesapeake Bay south to the Carolinas.
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Heat warnings are still in effect for parts of the Carolinas through the mid-Atlantic.
Heat warnings and excessive heat warnings Tuesday through the Carolinas into the mid-Atlantic.
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A cold front is giving a breather to the northeast; Northern New England will fall again in the 1970s.
High temperatures for July 20.
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It’s not only hot in the East.
The expected heat index for July 21.
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Across the west, above-average temperatures will make things uncomfortable in Washington, Oregon, and Intermountain West. High temperatures in the mid to upper 1990s will shift east Wednesday into the Rocky Mountains.
Forest fire danger in the Great Basin on July 21.
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All that heat and low humidity are creating another day of fire danger Tuesday for parts of the Great Basin.
Eyes on the tropics
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring a tropical wave that brings scattered showers and thunderstorms to South Florida and Keys Tuesday.
A tropical wave that will bring storms to South Florida will move to the Gulf of Mexico and to Texas and Louisiana later this week.
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This disturbance will carry over to the Gulf Coast, bringing wet weather and scattered storms, especially for the central and western Gulf areas in the second half of the week.
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The NHC said that as of Tuesday morning there is now a 40 percent chance that the area will become the next named tropical system.
A Hurricane Hunter Air Force Reserve plane is scheduled to investigate the system Tuesday afternoon, according to the NHC.
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Elsewhere in the Atlantic basin, an area of rain and thunderstorms has increased and is better organized halfway between the west coast of Africa and the Lesser Antilles.
There is a 60 percent chance that the system will become something else in the next five days as it moves west, forecasters said.
Severe weather, risk of flash flooding from the plains to the mid-Atlantic
Storms have soared along a cold front in the middle section of the nation.
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Severe weather and the risk of flash floods will be possible in some areas on Tuesday due to a cold front that eases the heat from the northeast.
The national forecast for July 21.
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Storms can affect an area that stretches from the plains to the mid-Atlantic and the Ohio Valley, where a frontal boundary remains the focus of the storms.
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There will be a threat of severe weather and flash floods in the northern Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley on Wednesday, according to the Climate Prediction Center (WPC).
Fox News’ Brandon Noriega contributed to this report.
