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After another round of flooding, a heat advisory is in effect Thursday

Yet more rinse-and-repeat flood warnings were posted for Philadelphia and portions of adjacent counties Wednesday as more downpours oozed through the region.And don’t be surprised if more pop up later in the week as the atmosphere will remain thickened with so much skin-clinging water vapor that “it’s not going to take much” to turn on the faucets, said Michael Silva, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.As one indicator of the atmospheric saturation: The weather service has posted a heat advisory for Thursday as heat indexes could rise to 100 or better — even though temperatures won’t get much past 90. That’s all about the humidity in what could be the start of a more muggy wave, as opposed to a traditional heat wave. The moisture in the air on Wednesday was such t
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