Heat advisory in effect for South Florida
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At 2:08 p.m. on Monday, the National Weather Service released a heat advisory in effect until Tuesday at 9 p.m. for Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan and Cullman counties.
The heat index considers the actual temperature and amount of moisture in the air using the dew point or relative humidity.
A heat advisory has been issued for Miami-Dade and Broward counties for Monday and will be in effect noon to 6 p.m. South Florida also was under a heat advisory on Friday. Although the weekend was scorching hot in the region, the National Weather Service in Miami didn’t issue heat advisories for Saturday and Sunday.
The National Weather Service heat advisory began at 11 a.m. Saturday for much of North Carolina, including the all of the Piedmont, Sandhills and Coastal Plain. Temperatures in the Triangle are in the 90s today, with a heat index higher than 100 degrees.
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The National Weather Service sent out millions of extreme heat warnings, heat watches and heat advisory alerts early Monday morning.
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The National Weather Service office in Mobile, Alabama, issued a heat advisory in Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday. Heat index values are forecast to reach as high as 109℉ in portions of south central and southwest Alabama, northwest Florida and southeast Mississippi.
On Sunday at 1:18 p.m. the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC released a heat advisory valid for Monday between noon and 8 p.m. for Gaston County.
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