Berks enjoyed a perfect summer weekend with temperatures in the mid to upper 80’s and dew points hovering around 60. The sky was mainly clear with afternoon fair weather cumulus clouds developing, as shown in the webcam image below. This was a well received break from the recent string of humid and stormy days. It doesn’t get much better then this for mid to late July and for perspective it was 12 years ago on July 22nd, 2011 that Berks set its all-time high temperature of 106 °F (CW4113 recorded 103 °F). The station recorded its all-time record heat index of 118 °F on this same day.
The short term outlook is seasonable temperatures with a slight chance of thunderstorms Monday and Tuesday. By midweek heat and humidity will build and temperatures will peak in the mid to upper 90s by Friday. We are expecting heat indexes well over 100 at this time and probably due for such a stretch. The station’s high heat index for 2023 is currently 103 (July 15th), which is quite far from the 118 in 2011. A frontal boundary is expected to approach for next weekend possibly bringing some relief and rain.
