For DesiPDX, a food cart on North Mississippi Avenue, it’s just the opposite. Deepac Saxena, the owner, said temperatures inside the truck can be 15 to 20 degrees higher than outside. Without air conditioning to beat the heat and with customers flocking to the coast or the Willamette River instead, closing becomes the better option, he said.

The heat advisory includes parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, where two people died in flooding.

A push of marine air tonight will send in the clouds and fog overnight through the Chehalis Gap into the south and central Sound by Thursday morning. This will signify an end to our heat wave. While still warm Thursday after the am clouds clear, the hottest weather will be behind us - for now.

The Puget Sound region is expected to warm up into the upper-80s and lower-90s Tuesday, with the rest of the week following suit.

A day before a heat wave was set to envelop the Willamette Valley, over 1,000 EWEB customers lost power. The outage was reported on EWEB’s outage map. Around 4 p.m. on July 15, the outage map listed 13 outages in EWEB’s service territory. The outage impacted 1,116 customers at the time.

Heat alerts extend nearly statewide with high dew points making it feel closer to the mid-90s or slightly higher across the region.

The article Newark Declares 3-Day 'Code Red' Alert, Weather Forecasters Predict Another Heat Wave appeared first on Newark Patch. NEWARK, NJ — Newark is declaring a three-day “Code Red” for local residents this week amid predictions of a heat wave to come.

Emergency cooling centers in Bergen County will open on Tuesday for the upcoming heat wave that is expected to bring humid, hot weather throughout the week. Temperatures may climb into the 90s, with the potential for afternoon showers and thunderstorms, the National Weather Service said.