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Your Morning Wake-up Call for August 1, 2011

By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 1, 2011 12:34PM

We don't need to remind you that this is the last full month of summer around these parts and you're probably seizing it for all it's worth as much as we. So what does the first day of August have in store for us? An air quality alert, for starters. It's also hot and humid with a high in the lower 90s and a heat index pushing 100 in places. Later this afternoon there's a chance for some thunderstorms before the rains roll back into the area in earnest tomorrow.