PHILADELPHIA — After the hottest day of the year, for an encore Philadelphia could experience its hottest day in a decade on Sunday as temperatures make a run at a record-breaking 100, or about 10 degrees higher than it is expected to be in Miami.
The official high at Philadelphia International Airport reached 98 Saturday, shy of a record, but with a heat index reaching 100 degrees, hot enough.
“You guys are roasting pretty good,” said Bob Smerbeck, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc., in State College, where it wasn’t exactly in the “code blue” zone as temperatures there reached the low 90s.