Ohio gets early taste of extreme summer heat

CINCINNATI (AP) — Ohio’s soggy spring weather has been replaced with some of the hottest temperatures ever seen this early in the year.

Highs in or close to the 90s are expected throughout the state today and Wednesday.

Cincinnati has declared a heat emergency and has opened its 26 recreation centers as cooling centers. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports forecasters say the city on Wednesday could approach the day’s record high of 98 degrees, set in 1874.

National Weather Service meteorologist Andrew Snyder in Wilmington says it has been more than 10 years since Cincinnati has experienced such intense heat so early in June.

The sizzling pre-summer temperatures follow what forecasters say was Cincinnati’s wettest spring on record. The season was the third-rainiest ever for both Columbus and Dayton.