It started on the Fourth of July, and ever since then it's been firecracker hot

ROCHESTER - The 10-day heat wave the Rochester area has been experiencing is not only epic, it's record breaking, according to the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine.
Meteorologist Sarah Jamison told The Rochester Voice today that it's been above 90 degrees since the Fourth of July, and another four days of heat are forecast through Wednesday, making it a two-week affair.
Since the National Weather Service has been keeping records on Rochester temperatures, the longest heat wave was nine days in August of 2002. Jamison noted that Concord, which has been reporting high temps to the NWS since 1868, has never even had a nine-day heat wave.
Jamison blamed the record-breaking heat wave on a ridge of high pressure that started in the West and brought more heat in a weather pattern that has remained stationary for several weeks.
"The front has not been progression like in other seasons," she said. "This is like the stationary front last August that brought us all that rain, only this time we're getting just this heat in July. We're having an anomalously warm July. The length of this current heat wave is really quite remarkable."
Jamison said the she expects the current heat wave to break on Thursday, but the month will end with more high temps.
She said August is expected to be wetter, but not as bad as last year.
"August will continue with more sporadic rain activity and temps above normal.