Bermuda High Soaks 80 Million East Coast Residents in Amazon-Like Humidity
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Updated · The Washington Post · Aug 7
Bermuda High Soaks 80 Million East Coast Residents in Amazon-Like Humidity
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Aug 7
Summary
80 million people from Washington to Boston are sweltering in extreme humidity expected to last into the weekend, with Thursday conditions matching Miami and New Orleans.
New York's peak humidity was roughly on par with the Amazon Rainforest after air over the city spent 10 days traveling north from Cuba.
The surge is being driven by a Bermuda high that shifted west from the central Atlantic to hug the East Coast, pulling tropical Caribbean air northward in a clockwise flow.
That high is forecast to flatten and drift south next week, allowing humidity across the Northeast to ease gradually after several more days of oppressive conditions.