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Hot streak to hit area for rest of the week

Despite the threat of some scattered showers, it should be a decent weather week for the remainder the Lycoming County Fair “if you like hot” and humid conditions, according to Kevin Fitzgerald, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in State College.

A high pressure system over the region made for very comfortable conditions Sunday and today, but look for that to change for the remainder of the week “when the high pressure pushes off to the East Coast and is replaced a flow of humid air coming from the southwest,” Fitzgerald explained on Sunday night.

Sunday’s comfortable dew point of the mid 50s will like rise to a very sticky 70-plus, he said.

As long as that high pressure sticks around, it will remain dry, Fitzgerald said. However, once it is replaced by the humid air, “there is a 50 percent chance of scattered afternoon thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday,” he said.

“Scattered” is the key word.

“With all the humidity, we could get downpours, but not everyone will get one,” Fitzgerald said. Hopefully, whatever rain hits the region will skirt around the fair in Hughesville. However, one just might want to keep an umbrella handy.

High temperatures throughout the week will be in the upper 80s until Friday and Saturday when temperatures are expected to top 90, Fitzgerald said. Overnight lows will range from the mid-60s to 75.

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