At 3:52 p.m., the temperature hit 97 at Philadelphia International Airport, making it the warmest day of the summer of 2007. That beat the official high of 96 on both July 9th and 10th.
It didn't quite reach the city's record for the date, 100, set in 2001, but it did hit 100 at Atlantic City.
That's a sure sign of a hot land breeze from the west; that's not going to happen at the Shore with an east wind off the ocean, unless global warming is way out of hand. And it got all the way to 103 at Baltimore Inner Harbor.
From here it should get nothing but better, with temperatures heading toward more-tolerable levels, and the weekend continues to look dry and pleasant.
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