Region braces for a week of heat and high humidity

“Oppressive” humidity is forecast to make the temperature feel like triple digits around Baltimore through the Fourth of July holiday as a heat wave moves into the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. The heat index “may top 110 degrees in some locations for several days,” the National Weather Service cautioned. In Baltimore, it’s forecast to approach 100 degrees from Tuesday through the weekend. High temperatures are forecast in the lower to mid-90s through the week. But with humidity expected to surge to the highest levels the region has seen this summer, it’s forecast to feel as much as10 degrees hotter. “High pressure at the surface and aloft over the southeastern U.S. will be responsible for pumping oppressive dew points in the low to middle 70s across the Mid-Atlantic,” the weather service’s Baltimore/ Washington forecast office said. The dew point is the temperature at which moisture in the air condenses into liquid; the higher the dew point, the hotter and stickier it feels. and disrupted the event at the Severna Park Community Library on Saturday. Rob Sapp, an Anne Arundel County Public Library board member, said he was shoved after he asked Miller and another man to be quiet. Anne Arundel County Libraries spokeswoman Christine Feldmann said about 30 protesters prayed, carried signs and talked peacefully on McKinsey Road outside the 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Drag Queen Storytime sessions, which brought in about 300 parents and toddlers. Two protesters went into the second story time, where Feldmann said they began shouting at the performer, Feldmann said Miller and the other man, who was not arrested, are banned from Anne Arundel County Public Libraries for a year.

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