Highs will drop briefly into the low 90s on Friday which marks the official start of summer. Next weekend looks sweltering with highs in the mid-90s. Plenty of sunshine is expected.

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Muggy conditions will continue with daily afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Wednesday looks sunny and dry - but the trade off will be temperatures rising back to 90 degrees. By the weekend ...

“Well, it’s APT time . . . again,” I want to say with the on-camera inflections of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, 1993, dejected by the day’s repetition.