It's another brief heat wave coming up this week for 4 days. We will likely have another Heat Advisory for the Evansville area this Tue-Thu, with the heat possibly lingering on Friday.
This thread was created for our Fall T-Ball program at McCutchanville/Evansville, IN that is playing evening games this week.
We should note that HEAT WAVES are huge air masses that can be predicted days in advance with high confidence, while many rain events can't be known until we wait to see if they actually develop on the LIVE RADAR.
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Highs for upcoming week: Days 3-7.
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/medr/medr_max.shtml
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The Heat Index will still be at 95+ deg. F at 6pm on Tue-Wed and probably Thu! Probably Thu, only because Thu is 4 days from now and the relief on Fri could get here a day early!
Highs Wed-Thu below(Tue will be just as hot). Keep in mind that the Heat Index (what it feels like and the impact on our bodies) will be 10 degrees higher than these actual thermometer readings because of the high dew points/humidity.
Temperatures will be dropping from those late afternoon highs but the Heat Index will still be above 90 deg.F at 7pm.
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Local Evansville, IN weather source:
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=281&y=89&site=pah&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=281&map_y=89
Monday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. East wind around 8 mph.
Monday Night
Clear, with a low around 68. East wind around 7 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with a high near 96. South southwest wind 5 to 8 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 73. Calm wind.
Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 96. Calm wind becoming south southwest around 6 mph in the morning.
Wednesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 73. Calm wind.
Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 95. Calm wind becoming west southwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
Thursday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 71. Light and variable wind.
Friday
A slight chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. Calm wind becoming west northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
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Again, the Heat Index on Tuesday-Thursday will be 10 degrees higher at times and reaching well above 100. In the afternoon, probably not dropping below 90 until well after 7pm.
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The stat in the left/bottom corner is for 6pm, Tuesday. Temperature 92 deg. F, Heat Index 98 deb. F!
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https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=284&y=87&site=pah&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=284&map_y=88
Tuesday
High: 98 °F
.HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM CDT /NOON EDT/ TO 8 PM CDT /9 PM EDT/ TUESDAY... * WHAT...High temperatures in the mid to upper 90s, with stifling humidity creating Peak Heat Index values up to around 105 degrees. * WHERE...All of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and southeast Missouri. * WHEN...From 11 AM CDT /noon EDT/ to 8 PM CDT /9 PM EDT/ Tuesday. * IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses.
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This is the AI generated numerical weather guidance for Tue and Wed in Evansville, IN. Note the bottom left corner stats at 6pm on Tuesday, the time that I picked because a T-Ball game is schedule to start at 5:30 pm(which will be even hotter than 6pm. Temperature of 91 deg. F and Heat Index 100 deg. F.
See the pediatric and youth sports guidelines above for a Heat Index this high. Not metmike, the AUTHORITIES, ALL OF THEM AGREE WITH THIS! Violating this advice is unnecessarily putting the health and lives of young children at risk.
Earlier this month, this happened with similar conditions, a heat advisory in the Knoxville, TN area(with a Heat Index just LESS THAN 100 deg F). These were middle school kids and they were NOT participating in a a sport, while being outside for around an hour.
They were under severe stress from the bomb threat which likely contributed too.
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It does seem odd that so many students were impacted in just an hour with a Heat Index under 100 above but with a bomb threat being a MUCH higher threat, you must follow protocol for the safety of the children and the actual heat/humidity didn't seem hot enough to cause this. I speculate that extreme stress from the bomb threat, likely triggered a cortisol hormone gush which made them especially vulnerable to the heat that morning.
Safety of the children should always take priority using the advice of well established heat advisory guidelines here in 2026.
A program that blatantly violates that could end up with 1 (or more) critical heat related illness and potential disaster that should have been avoided.
Again, not my interpretation. I love the heat and do 1 hour intense steam sauna's 2 times a week with my tent/sauna at home.
Putting children at risk of harm from dangerous heat because you don't know any better is ignorance. Putting children at risk of harm from dangerous heat after being crystal clearly informed of the science and rock solid definitions of the conditions for what defines that risk from authoritative sources......but doing it anyway is called gross negligence.
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