It’s time to sizzle. Tuesday is day one of high temperatures in the 90s.
Blazing sun will make for a somewhat typical hot summer day, but Wednesday and Thursday take the cake as the hottest of the hot in this spell.
A fiery hot ridge …
Massachusetts
Fire up the duck boats! What we know about the Celtics’ Boston parade
It’s a moment 16 years in the making. But when will Boston hold a parade for the Celtics’ 2024 NBA Championship?
As the buzzer sounded on Monday’s blowout win over the Dallas Mavericks, that had yet to be announced — no one wanted to jinx the team’s quest for an 18th title banner.
“OK, we don’t use the ‘P-word’ ahead of time in Boston,” Mayor Michelle Wu said last week, before Game 4. “But should there be something huge to celebrate, we will be prepared and have announcements in the days ahead, just to make sure we are carefully planning for and mapping out all the logistics.”
We asked Wu about Game 5 on Monday morning, and here’s what she told us.
“Today is going to be wild. The whole city is ready, we’re with them and feeling good,” the mayor said about the game.
We asked about the upcoming heat wave and how it would factor in to any celebrations, and she said there were meetings going on Monday morning at City Hall, “to talk through what the projections are and what the forecasts are, if it is likely to be above a certain threshold of the heat index for multiple days at a time.”
Later Monday, Wu’s office declared a heat emergency in Boston, triggering cooling centers and other measures to keep the population cool.
“It’s also the last week of school in the Boston Public Schools, and so there’s some half days, and we’re thinking about how that affects students who might need a full day of support as well,” Wu said. “So we’ll have more to come probably very shortly on that front.”
What’s the forecast this week in Boston?
It’s going to be hot all week, potentially dangerously hot. A heat wave is expected to start Tuesday and last at least through Thursday, if not Friday.
Thursday may tie the day’s record of 98 degrees.
This is a developing news story.
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Massachusetts faces brutal heat wave, may feel like 106 degrees; Michelle Wu declares heat emergency for Boston
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SUV passenger killed by second vehicle after crash with deer in Braintree, police say
A woman was killed when she was hit by an SUV in Braintree early Sunday after her own vehicle had hit a deer on Route 3, Massachusetts State Police said Monday.
The driver of the SUV that hit the deer was also hospitalized in the incident, reported about 3:10 a.m., according to police. He and the woman who died were from Roxbury; she was not immediately identified.
In the first crash, a northbound Toyota Rav4 being driven the the Roxbury man, 63, hit the deer and stopped in the right lane near the 40.2 mile marker, police said. Both he and the woman, who was 35, got out to see how badly the SUV was damaged.
A Jaguar F-PACE SUV in the right lane swerved to avoid the stopped Rav4, hitting the passenger in the breakdown lane.
The woman was rushed to a hospital with serious injuries and was later pronounced dead, according to police. It wasn’t immediately clear how the driver was hurt or what his condition was on Monday.
Police didn’t say if the driver of the Jaguar stopped or if they would be facing charges. The crash remained under investigation by state police as of Monday evening.
