The oppressive heat and humidity of the early week should break today, to be replaced by off-and-on rains, cooler temperatures and perhaps the remnants of an indecisive tropical storm.

“We’ve been in a southerly flow for the last couple of days,” said Dennis Feltgen, National Weather Service meteorologist. “We’ve been building humidity for the last couple days and we’ve been building up heat. But that’s all going to be changing.”