If you think it’s been hot, get used to it.
After all, these are the dog days of summer when people as well as dogs wilt in the day’s heat. Nothing unusual, says Steve Letro, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service Office in Jacksonville, as the area faces the next 15 days with heat indices of 100 or above.
Letro suggests you could cool off by remembering last winter when it snowed in Orlando and the Northeast was blizzardsville. But, really, the first part of July was not all that hot in Jacksonville.
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“During the first five days of this month, the warmest reading was 88,” Letro said.
But since then the temperature has been rising, along with the heat index, or how it makes one feel. The heat index is a combination of the relative humidity and the temperature.
July 18 was the last day Jacksonville had a heat index less than 100. And from now through Aug. 3, Letro is predicting highs each day could be between 94 and 98 degrees with heat indices of more than 100.
But, he added, “I don’t get excited with heat indices of 100 and above because that is normal at this time of year; 105 and 110 is when I get concerned.”
