After experiencing record-setting heat on Memorial Day, the Toledo area will be faced with possible flooding by the middle to latter part of the week.

First, the heat.

Memorial Day was a scorcher, hitting a record 98 degrees at 3:44 p.m. at Toledo Express Airport, according to National Weather Service. The previous record for May 28 was 96 degrees set in 2012.

At The Blade’s building in downtown Toledo, the temperature hit 101 degrees at 4:45 p.m.

And Toledo was not alone, according to Martin Thompson, NWS hydrometeorological technician, who said most of northern Ohio hit record highs, tied, or came close to breaking records.

The NWS records go back to 1873.

A little perspective: Toledo’s average for May 28 is 75 degrees, meaning Monday’s 98-degree day was 23 degrees above the norm.

Expect the air to be unseasonably humid again Tuesday, Mr. Thompson said, with no records broken.

Although the heat should soar into the upper 80s again, it shouldn’t break the May 29 record of 93 degrees set in 1942 and tied twice after that, in 1962 and 2006.

Daily high temperatures are expected to begin tapering off slightly after that, but remain somewhere in the 80s for most of the week.

Now, for the rain.

Yes, it’ll be mostly fallout from subtropical storm Alberto, which made landfall Monday in the Florida Panhandle with winds estimated at 45 mph, down from 65 mph about 110 miles to the south while it was still out in the Gulf of Mexico.

It’s a bit of a wild card trying to predict whether the rainfall in this area will be just an annoyance or a serious deluge, but Mr. Thompson said he and others are tracking the storm as it weakens and makes its way up here by Wednesday.

“It’ll be a system that we’re watching,” Mr. Thompson said.

NWS predicts gusts of up to 25 mph and a 70 percent chance of rain Wednesday. As of now, the chance of rain on Thursday is 60 percent, and the chance of rain on Friday is 50 percent. But that forecast could change as the storm gets closer, and the volumes of anticipated rain are presently unknown.

Whatever rain we get is expected to last through Friday night, he said.

Bottom line: Look forward to Saturday. It’s expected to be cooler and dry that day in the Toledo area, with temperatures topping out in the low and comfortable 70s, Mr. Thompson said.

Contact Tom Henry at thenry@theblade.com, 419-724-6079, or via Twitter @ecowriterohio.

First Published May 29, 2018, 12:16 a.m.