{"id":1021871,"date":"2026-08-24T22:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021871\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:29:15","slug":"phoenix-could-hit-116-degrees-this-week-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021871\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix could hit 116 degrees this week: Here\u2019s what to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 First Alert Days and an extreme heat warning remain in effect through Saturday, with an air quality alert active Tuesday for the Valley and central Arizona due to high ozone levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Expect a brief reprieve Monday with early clouds and showers keeping highs around 109 degrees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, the extreme heat returns Tuesday. After overnight lows in the upper 80s, Tuesday\u2019s forecast of 114 degrees threatens to break the 2011 record of 113 degrees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wednesday will likely be the hottest day of the week at 116 degrees (just shy of the 117-degree record), followed by 115 degrees on Thursday (record: 114 degrees), 112 degrees on Friday and 110 degrees on Saturday. We may see a slight cooldown to 107 degrees by Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While the workweek looks mostly dry, a shifting weather pattern brings a slight chance of rain late next weekend into early next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 First Alert Days and an extreme heat warning remain in effect through Saturday, with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1021872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[408884,5229,5643,408885,7161,1587,7162,7163,408887,364313,42693,382777,22219,368296,315648,1589,7159,345043,408886,7158,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,315645,7160],"class_list":["post-1021871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-116-degree-forecast","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-air-quality-alert","tag-arizona-weather","tag-az","tag-az-weather","tag-azfamily-first-alert-weather","tag-central-arizona-weather","tag-excessive-heat","tag-extreme-heat-warning","tag-first-alert-days","tag-first-alert-weather-day","tag-monsoon-forecast","tag-ozone-alert","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-forecast","tag-phoenix-heat-wave","tag-phoenix-temperature-record","tag-phoenix-weather","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-valley-forecast","tag-weather-forecast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}