Heat Sticks Around

May 10, 2022

Rusty Dawkins,

Forecast highs for Wednesday are HOT! Record highs are likely for many spots. Here are the records for a few cities for Wednesday, May 11, 2022:

Cape Girardeau: 89 set in 2005
Paducah: 88 set in 2018
Carbondale: 89 set in 1914
Poplar Bluff: 92 set in 1902
Evansville: 88 set in 2018
Mount Vernon: 94 set in 1896

So many areas are in for a hot day on Wednesday with lots of sunshine, quite a bit of humidity, and not much wind.

It doesn’t get much better over the next couple of days. Thursday is looking just as hot for many of us. Here are the forecast highs for Thursday:

And Friday? Yep, still warm, just not as warm. We might see a few more clouds and storms become possible late Friday and into the weekend. But here’s what Friday’s high temperatures look like: