Record Temps Set to Bake Northeast

Temperatures are expected to top 100 degrees this week in cities from New York to Washington as an intense summer heat wave hits the Eastern Seaboard and brings hot and steamy weather to New England, the Midwest and southward to the Carolinas.

The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for today through late Wednesday in New York, New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware, predicting that temperatures could spike to 102 degrees in some areas.

But the private forecasting firm AccuWeather.com says, "The heat wave just now beginning could last for seven days or more and would be one of the worst, early-summer heat waves on record."

The heat will be compounded by increasingly high humidity levels, the National Weather Service said, explaining on its website that "surface high pressure over the mid-Atlantic states will keep hot and increasingly more humid conditions across the area through mid-week."

Temperatures could reach 102 degrees in New Jersey, 101 in Philadelphia and near 100 in New York, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced 100 cooling centers would be open to provide relief for those who do not have access to air conditioning.

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