For a second straight day, daily high temperatures reached triple-digit highs – and for a second straight day, daily high temperature records were broken. Not just broken, but smashed.

Usually, when a record is broken, it is by a degree or two. Like yesterday. The record was 99 degrees from last year. We got to 101 degrees. Today was a different story. When you break a record by six degrees, well, that is just the exclamation point on just how hot things have been around here. Today peaked at 103 degrees - the hottest it's been in four years, but also the hottest for this date and the earliest it's been this hot in June ever.

The heat continues for tomorrow, but it eases up a few degrees. Backing down to just the upper 90s. There is a chance, a small one, that Newark peaks at 100 degrees. We certainly will keep an eye on it for tomorrow. If it does get to that temperature, it would tie the record of 100 degrees set back in 1943.

We need relief, and it comes in the form of a slow-moving weather system that will drape itself across the State. Clouds will collect late Wednesday night into Thursday. Showers and thunderstorms will develop along it. The wet and stormy weather brings an end to our first heatwave of the year. But I'm sure we will be tracking many more this summer.