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❤️ Donate Tuesday, May 19, 2026 ☀️ Hot and humid, with a high near 93 and a small chance of scattered showers later in the day. Good Morning Boston, A heat advisory takes effect today at 11 a.m. across most of Massachusetts , with potentially record breaking temperatures in the forecast for this time of year. The record for May 19 in Boston is 90 degrees. We could even come close to the city's all-time high for the entire month of May: 97 degrees, set all the way back in 1880. Now, to the news: Pool prep: State officials opened more than a dozen Boston-area spray decks yesterday — five days ahead of schedule — to give locals some relief from the heat. "They were originally scheduled to open Saturday, so this is an early opening for us," Shawn DeRosa, the Department of Conservation and Recreation's director of pool and waterfront safety, told WBUR's John Bender. ( See the list of spray decks here .) Save the dates: Per u...