Heat wave to wallop Tri-Cities. Temperature could top 100+ for days

Summer’s first heat wave is just days away — and it could be a long one.

The temperature should finally hit the triple digits for the first time this year in the Tri-Cities, after a June that was cooler than normal, according to National Weather Service data.

Temperatures will start to heat up on Independence Day, with a high of 94 forecast.

Then on Friday the high should reach 102, followed by highs of 105 Saturday and Sunday and 104 on Monday, according to the weather service forecast .

The Weather Channel which offers a longer, 10-day forecast, says temperatures in the 100s may last for seven days through Thursday, July 11.

And that could include 108-degree highs for Monday, July 8, and Tuesday, July 9.

July 8 has the potential to top the current hot weather record for the date, 107 degrees recorded in 2012.

Normal high temperatures for those dates in the Tri-Cities are about 90 degrees.

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