WEATHER: Temps remaining up, triple digit heat index expected until after Labor Day

The heat isn’t going anywhere, even as the unofficial end of summer has arrived to Northwest Georgia this weekend.

NWS Peachtree City is keeping a heat advisory in effect through at least Saturday, September 5 at 8 p.m., and the heat index will remain well above normal through Sunday as the temperature will remain up thanks to a cold front pushing in from the north and colliding with a high pressure system that’s settled over the southeast that has kept temperatures high.

Long and short? Overly hot, sticky and gross feeling through Saturday, and chances for rain on Saturday will give way to more sunshine and light clouds over the weekend.

The only good news about the upcoming forecast is that the heat is supposed to break starting next week. Highs on Labor Day will be in the upper 80s and low 90s around the region, and remain in the low 90s through the remainder of the week. Temps will get down in the upper 60s overnight during the week to come.

Don’t expect any rain showers to help bring the temperature down further through until the end of the coming week, with chances of rain expected for Sept. 11.

Ceremonies shouldn’t get interrupted during the morning hours for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.

Triple Threat in the Pacific

Karina, Lowell and Marie – three hurricanes at one time are swirling in the Eastern and Central Pacific, with storms Karina and Lowell both having the potential for threatening to impact the Hawaiian Islands. This is the third round of storms in recent weeks that have impacted the islands with high winds and surf, but have not hit directly.

Lowell is a strong hurricane, with 150 mph sustained winds and is southwest of the island chain, while Karina remains a lower-grade storm with just 85 mph winds. Hurricane Marie south of Baja California is carrying sustained winds of 100 mph, with it likely to lose strength as it moves west-northwest at 7 knots.

The two larger storms should remain out of the path of Hawaii, but Hurricane Karina is moving west toward the islands and could bring winds and higher surf to the islands by Monday as the storm loses strength and becomes a Tropical Storm again.

No movement is being tracked in the Atlantic region at the moment, but Tropical Storm Edouard moved inland this past week and left the Texas gulf coast inundated with 20 inches of rain in some spots.