Whether you head to the beach or stay inland, it will be miserably hot Saturday.
Jim Hayes, a meterologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, Burlington County, said highs will be in the mid to upper 90s and feel like 105. And because there will be a land breeze, "any cooling the sea breeze might bring won't happen," he said.
A heat advisory will be in effect until Saturday evening for the entire region, including along the coast - something Hayes said does not happen every year.
The temperature at Atlantic City International Airport in Egg Harbor Township reached 97 degrees Friday but did not set a record for the day. Saturday will be another story, Hayes said. The record for July 24 is 93 degrees, and the forecast calls for a high of as much as 99 degrees. Sunday will be just as hot, but not as humid.
This month is already one of the hottest Julys on record for southern New Jersey, the worst stretch coming July 4 to 7, when temperatures hovered around 100.
Be ready for today's heat index to top out around 105 degrees - pressofAtlanticCity.com