This will likely be a day like no other in Seattle. And a perfect day for weather mavens.
The National Weather Service calls for temperatures to reach 100 Wednesday and Thursday. That would equal the hottest day ever recorded here.
And University of Washington professor Cliff Mass has written in his blog that it seems likely we will break the record.
The record will be set at Sea-Tac Airport, though the Weather Service says the temperature could reach 105 in some locations.
And for those of you keeping notes, it appears that another record fell Wednesday. The low temperature was likely the highest ever recorded. It had been 69 degrees on Sept. 2, 1974.
Just before 7 a.m., the lowest temperature was 71 degrees.
At the same time, the weather pattern is making the air quality worse, says the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
So be careful out there. Mass reminds his readers that heat waves often don’t get the ink that other extreme weather events do but that they can be quite dangerous.
Catch a movie, soak in a pool, linger in the frozen-foods section at the supermarket.
And wait for the weekend. Temperatures might fall into the 90s on Friday but back into the 80s by Saturday.