Highs are expected to remain in the mid-80s throughout the week amid mostly sunny daytime weather.

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Tuesday will be clear with temperatures kicking up to around 86. Tuesday night will remain mostly clear with a low around 63.

Wednesday and Thursday should be identical to Tuesday with sunny conditions and a high around 85. Wednesday night will be mostly clear with a low around 64, and Thursday night will be the week’s first glimpse at mostly cloudy conditions.

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Some clouds will stick around into Friday, as conditions will be partly sunny with a high near 84. Friday night, conditions will shift to mostly cloudy with a low around 64.

Friday was mostly cloudy during the day and reached a high near 80. Temperatures cooled off into the low 70s and mid-60s through the night.

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A cold front made its way across the region Saturday, bringing some showers in the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

The sun is forecast to come back out Sunday, with a high near 75 and an evening low around 57.

Monday will be sunny with temperatures warming to a high around 81, dropping into the 60s at night.

Dry and sunny conditions are expected to remain next week with temperature highs in the upper 80s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

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Wednesday is expected to be mostly sunny with highs in the upper-70s before partly cloudy conditions at night, with a low in the high 50s.

Mostly sunny conditions will continue into Thursday with a high in the upper-70s. During the evening, it will become mostly cloudy with a low in the low 60s.

Going into the weekend, the chances of rain will return. On Friday, temperatures are forecast to reach back into the 80s, but there will be a 20% chance of rain. Friday night will have chances of rain increase to 30%, while temperatures fall to a low around 67.

Saturday and Sunday will have highs of 77 and 75, respectively. However, Saturday will have a 50% chance of rain that will drop down to 30% at night.

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According to the National Weather Service forecast, Monday will be mostly sunny, with highs in the lower 80s. Winds between 10 and 15 mph  are expected with gusts up to 25 mph.

In the evening, conditions will remain clear with a low in the mid 50s.

Tuesday is expected to have sunny conditions and a high in the mid 70s. The evening will be mostly clear with a low in the mid 50s.

Wednesday will be slightly warmer with highs in the upper 70s before partly cloudy conditions roll in at night with a low in the upper 50s.

Sunny conditions will continue into Thursday with a high in the upper 70s. Nighttime conditions will shift to mostly cloudy with a low in the mid 60s

Friday will bring the first chance of rain this week, with partly sunny conditions, a 40% chance of showers and highs in the upper 70s. Clouds will increase Friday night, with a 40% chance of rain and thunderstorms. Lows will hover in the mid 60s.

There’s a 50% chance of showers with highs in the upper 70s on Saturday, while Sunday will be mostly sunny with highs in the lower 70s.

“It might be heat stroke. He’s a football player,” a coach told 911, according to a recording obtained by The Progress-Index in Petersburg, Virginia. “We’ve been putting water on him. … We got ice we’re trying to put on him.”

Jayvion Taylor was taken to a hospital where he later died, the first in what would prove to be a deadly month for young football players.

In the next three weeks, at least five other high school and middle school football players would die in practices or games, according to news accounts. Among them was Leslie Noble IV, 16, the Franklin High School lineman who similarly collapsed at practice Aug. 14 and was remembered at funeral services Wednesday in Randallstown as a gentle, joyous giant.

The Maryland Medical Examiner has not yet released a cause of the teenager’s death, although dispatchers that day referred to heatstroke. Of the six athletes’ deaths found in news reports, two resulted from head injuries from tackles on the same day: Caden Tellier, 16, in Selma, Alabama, and Cohen Craddock, 13, in Madison, West Virginia.

In addition to Noble and Taylor, news accounts referred to the possibility of heat in the deaths of Semaj Wilkins, 14, of New Brockton High School in Alabama, and Ovet Gomez Regalado, 15, of Northwest High School in Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

The deaths have alarmed and saddened many who approach August with both anticipation for the coming football season and fear of the dangers that poses. Already by its high-contact nature a potentially dangerous sport, the record-breaking heat of recent years has heightened the risk for its players.

“You go through summer with your fingers crossed and hope you don’t see any heat-related injuries,” said Marty McNair, who has become an advocate for player safety in the six years since his son Jordan died of heatstroke suffered during a University of Maryland Terrapins practice. “It’s been horrific as far as student athlete deaths.”

While it’s difficult to discern trends in young athletes’ deaths because the total numbers remain thankfully low, experts say, July and August tend to present the most danger to football players.

“We don’t want to see any,” said Kristen Kucera, who directs the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Any amount of deaths in August we’re concerned about.”

The center’s data show two of the three high school football deaths reported last academic year occurred in July or August. For the two prior academic years, ending in June 2022 and June 2023, 6 of 11 and 3 of 7, respectively, occurred during those summer months.

“Everyone is increasingly concerned about heat across the board and not just in sports,” Kucera said.

And indeed, in Baltimore, a Department of Public Works employee, Ron Silver II, died of hyperthermia Aug. 2, prompting the city to pause trash and recycling collections Wednesday after temperatures climbed to 99 degrees.

With the last 10 years the warmest in nearly 175 years of recorded history, there is heightened urgency to finding a way to protect those who work or play in the heat of the summer.

One leading heat researcher predicts football will have to abandon its traditional role as a fall sport.

“In 20 years, high school [football] is going to be a spring sport,” said Douglas Casa, the CEO of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut. “It’s going to happen. Climate change is happening so much faster than we thought it would.”

The institute, which researches and seeks to prevent heat-related deaths in sports, labor and the military, is named after the Minnesota Vikings linebacker who died after suffering heatstroke at training camp in 2001.

Football’s current calendar puts the most vulnerable kind of athlete in the most rigorous kind of training at the riskiest time of year, Casa said.

“You take 300-pound kids in the hottest time of year and you put all this gear on them,” he said. “Big people heat up faster, and they cool down slower.”

Casa has helped multiple sports organizations, from the National Association of Athletic Trainers to the International Olympics Committee, develop guidelines for keeping athletes safe while practicing or competing in the heat.

In 2009, he co-wrote a consensus statement in the Journal of Athletic Training that outlines preseason heat acclimatization for secondary school athletics, which the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association recommends in its safety guidelines.

The first two days of football practice should only include helmets, per the recommendation. Shoulder pads are added for days 3-5, while introducing contact with blocking sleds and tackling dummies. Full contact should begin no earlier than day 6. Two-a-days shouldn’t be stacked back-to-back without a rest day in between. And the two practices are recommended to be separated by at least three hours in a cool environment.

Easing into the season is important given how quickly athletes can become dehydrated in the heat, both through sweating and breathing heavily in exertion, said Dr. Sunal Makadia, director of sports cardiology for LifeBridge Health, which operates Sinai Hospital in Baltimore and other facilities.

“This time of year, a lot of these players might either be new to the sport, or de-conditioned over the course of the summer, and they’re going in full-speed,” he said.

Makadia said the heat can be dangerous for everyone, from otherwise healthy kids to highly trained athletes to those who may have underlying heart conditions that previously were undiagnosed but emerge on the practice or playing field.

As a parent and a recreation league coach himself, Makadia recommends kids be screened by physicians before participating in a sport. That way, a doctor can review any symptoms, medications or family medical history that could contribute to potential problems, he said.

Spurred by tragic deaths, Maryland legislators have passed two laws in the last three years to improve safety for young athletes.

The Jordan McNair Safe and Fair Play Act passed in 2021 after the Randallstown native, whose death exposed a bullying culture on the Terps team and led to the firing of the football coach and the resignation of the chairman of the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents. The law addresses, in part, guidelines for preventing and treating brain injuries and heat-related illnesses in higher education.

McNair’s death also inspired the introduction of a bill in Congress, which has not passed, requiring colleges and universities to create emergency heat plans.

Reform at the middle and high school level also came in 2022, a year after a 17-year-old Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School football player died after suffering a brain injury when he was tackled in the end zone of a fall 2021 game. The Elijah Gorham Act mandates that middle and high schools develop emergency action plans, including having defibrillators and cooling equipment available.

Casa said he was heartened that it’s increasingly common for schools to have automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, and immersion tubs that can begin life-saving measures on the field before paramedics arrive.

No one should die from heat stroke, said Casa, who himself survived an episode as a 16-year-old running a 10K race. You simply have to cool a player down within the “golden half-hour” after symptoms emerge, he said, which is why more than 80% of high schools now have immersion tubs.

“It’s 100% survivable,” Casa said. “You have a tub of ice and water and your kid lives.”

Parents should ask if schools have a plan and the equipment to handle a player’s crisis, as well as an athletic trainer on site.

After hearing of Noble’s death, Maryland Sen. Shelly Hettleman, who helped pass both the McNair and Gorham legislation, did her due diligence to make sure Franklin High had the recommended safety measures in place.

“There was a trainer there. There was an AED nearby. It sounds like people responded as they should have,” the Baltimore County Democrat said. “Sometimes things like this are gonna happen, tragically, even when you have the best of policies in place, which I think happened here.”

Now, Hettleman is wondering: Can further preventative measures be taken? What kind of physicals are these young athletes undergoing before taking the field? And why is it happening in football more than other sports?

“I think it behooves us to look at that too,” Hettleman said. “I’m not hearing about field hockey players dropping dead on their fields, right? Or cross country runners?”

In the 2021-22 academic year, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, there were 65 catastrophic sports injuries to high school or college athletes representing 10 sports, 36.9% being fatal. Of the 65, 52.3% were football players and 53.9% were cardiac or heat related.

Noble’s death brings the issue home again, much as did that of McNair, whose family lived in Hettleman’s district.

“This is a local tragedy,” Hettleman said, “but it’s within a context of larger issues that are happening to our younger athletes all over the country.”

The Baltimore region is expected to see showers and a possible thunderstorm Saturday night, with temperatures expected to dip to 70 and an 80% chance of precipitation. That will drop to a 50% chance of expected showers Sunday, with a high of 88 and a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11 a.m. Sunday night the chance of rain drops to 30% while temperatures are expected to dip into the mid-60s.

The Labor Day forecast calls for sunny skies and temperatures near the low 80s, dropping into the 50s at night.

Saturday reached a high of 85 with patchy drizzle in the early morning before 10 a.m. and isolated showers after 5 p.m.

The high temperature Friday reached around 75 with overcast skies and less than an inch of rainfall. Temperatures dropped to the low 70s at night.

The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay, Tidal Potomac River and the I-95 corridor through central Maryland as an isolated severe thunderstorm Saturday evening could produce 60 mph wind gusts with hail possible.

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Tuesday and Wednesday will be mostly sunny with highs near 77 and 79.

“This morning our crews started early to beat the heat, but due to the extreme temperatures, all collections and solid waste operations have now concluded for the day,” the Department of Public Works said around 6 p.m.

Temperatures by the Inner Harbor broke 90 degrees after 10 a.m. and peaked at 99 around 4 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures are expected to drop into the 80s on Thursday.

“Our leadership and management teams were in the field today, actively communicating with crews, and assessing the impact of the heat in real-time,” DPW spokesperson Mary Stewart said. “If and when conditions become unsafe, we are fully prepared to suspend operations and will resume them when it is safe to do so.”

Residents whose trash or recycling was missed should call 311 to report it, as crews will address missing pickups this week, DPW said.

On Aug. 2 when temperatures hit 99 degrees, 36-year-old DPW worker Ronald Silver II died on the job of hyperthermia, according to the medical examiner. In July, before Silver’s death, a report from the city’s inspector general said DPW facilities and trucks had broken air conditioning and did not provide enough water, ice and fans for workers.

On the decision to halt services Wednesday, Stewart said the move is not a “permanent benchmark” and that the department is still working with an outside firm to review their policies.

“Once that assessment is complete, we will work with them, the union, and all other relevant stakeholders to outline any necessary changes to our approach,” she said. “In the meantime, we will continue to adjust as needed and take necessary precautions like today’s announcement.”

The Baltimore Department of Health issued a Code Red extreme heat alert for Wednesday when the temperature in Baltimore is expected to jump from 77 at 6 a.m. to 96 by noon and 101 around 3 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The heat index, a measurement of how hot the air feels and how uncomfortable people are likely to be based on the temperature combined with the humidity, is expected to reach 106.

“To protect our sanitation workers, crews will start earlier in cooler temps,” the Department of Public Works said on social media. “If it gets too hot, we’ll pause operations and resume when safe.”

Baltimore worker’s on-the-job death comes amid rising heat-related fatalities

The department added that trash, recycling and street sweeping would resume the next safe business day, but did not respond to a request for comment about a specific temperature threshold for work stoppages.

On Aug. 2 when temperatures hit 99 degrees, 36-year-old DPW worker Ronald Silver II died on the job of hyperthermia, according to the medical examiner. In July before Silver’s death, a report from the city’s inspector general said DPW facilities and trucks had broken air conditioning and did not provide enough water, ice and fans to workers. Last week City Council members questioned DPW officials over workplace safety.

Here’s a look at some of the weather events:

Midwest sizzles under heat wave

Millions of people in the Midwest have been enduring dangerous heat and humidity.

An emergency medicine physician treating Minnesota State Fair-goers for heat illnesses saw firefighters cut rings off two people’s swollen fingers Monday in hot weather that combined with humidity made it feel well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 degrees Celsius).

Soaring late summer temperatures also prompted some Midwestern schools to let out early or cancel sports practices. The National Weather Service issued heat warnings or advisories across Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. Several cities including Chicago opened cooling centers.

Forecasters said Tuesday also will be scorching hot for areas of the Midwest before the heat wave shifts to the south and east.

West Coast mountains get early snowstorm

An unusually cold storm on the mountain peaks along the West Coast late last week brought a hint of winter in August. The system dropped out of the Gulf of Alaska, down through the Pacific Northwest and into California. Mount Rainier, southeast of Seattle, got a high-elevation dusting, as did central Oregon’s Mt. Bachelor resort.

Mount Shasta, the Cascade Range volcano that rises to 14,163 feet (4,317 meters) above far northern California, wore a white blanket after the storm clouds passed. The mountain’s Helen Lake, which sits at 10,400 feet (3,170 meters) received about half a foot of snow (15 centimeters), and there were greater amounts at higher elevations, according to the U.S. Forest Service’s Shasta Ranger Station.

Tropical storm dumps heavy rain on Hawaii

Three tropical cyclones swirled over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, including Tropical Storm Hone, which brought heavy rain to Hawaii; Hurricane Gilma, which weakened to a tropical storm on Tuesday; and Tropical Storm Hector, which was churning westward, far off the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico.

The biggest impacts from Tropical Storm Hone (pronounced hoe-NEH) were rainfall and flash floods that resulted in road closures, downed power lines and damaged trees in some areas of the Big Island, said William Ahue, a forecaster at the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu. No injuries or major damage had been reported, authorities said.

Deadly Alaska landslide crashes into homes

A landslide that cut a path down a steep, thickly forested hillside crashed into several homes in Ketchikan, Alaska, in the latest such disaster to strike the mountainous region. Sunday’s slide killed one person and injured three others and prompted the mandatory evacuation of nearby homes in the city, a popular cruise ship stop along the famed Inside Passage in the southeastern Alaska panhandle.

The slide area remained unstable Monday, and authorities said that state and local geologists were arriving to assess the area for potential secondary slides. Last November, six people — including a family of five — were killed when a landslide destroyed two homes in Wrangell, north of Ketchikan.

Flash flood hits Grand Canyon National Park

The body of an Arizona woman who disappeared in Grand Canyon National Park after a flash flood was recovered Sunday, park rangers said. The body of Chenoa Nickerson, 33, was discovered by a group rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, the park said in a statement.

Nickerson was hiking along Havasu Creek about a half-mile (800 meters) from where it meets up with the Colorado River when the flash flood struck. Nickerson’s husband was among the more than 100 people safely evacuated.

The flood trapped several hikers in the area above and below Beaver Falls, one of a series of usually blue-green waterfalls that draw tourists from around the world to the Havasupai Tribe’s reservation. The area is prone to flooding that turns its iconic waterfalls chocolate brown.

During Code Orange alerts, children, people with asthma and other groups sensitive to polluted air are urged to avoid strenuous activity or exercise outdoors, the National Weather Service said. The threat level is above yellow, which is moderate, but below red, which is unhealthy, and purple, which is very unhealthy.

Wednesday is expected to be hot and stormy with a high temperature around 98 with a heat index around 104. The index measures how hot the air feels and how uncomfortable people are likely to be based on the temperature combined with the humidity.

The Baltimore Department of Health also issued a Code Red extreme heat alert for Wednesday.

“With the anticipated high temperature tomorrow, I am issuing a Code Red Extreme Heat Alert,” Mary Beth Haller, the interim health commissioner, said in a statement. “I urge residents—especially older adults, young children, people with pre-existing health conditions, first responders, and frontline workers —to stay hydrated, avoid strenuous outdoor activities, and seek relief in shaded or air-conditioned spaces whenever possible.”

Baltimore City Schools announced Tuesday night that due to the forecast and mechanical issues, Sinclair Lane and Arlington elementary schools and Pimlico Elementary/Middle were released three hours early Wednesday. Baltimore City College was released at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. Lunch was provided.

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A chance of showers and thunderstorms is expected to start at 8 p.m. Wednesday and last through the night, when the low temperature is in the mid-70s with a 40% chance of rain.

Thursday, the high temperature is expected to drop back into the mid-80s with a 40% chance of rain in the afternoon and increase to 50% at night.

Friday is expected to be cloudy with a high temperature around 78.

A chance of showers and thunderstorms is expected to return Saturday, starting around 2 p.m. and lasting through the night.

Sunday and Monday, which is Labor Day, are expected to have highs in the mid-80s. There’s a chance of showers on Sunday, while Monday is expected to be mostly sunny.