As potentially dangerous heat rages into its third straight weekend, officials will be keeping cooling centers open — and adding new options to stay safe amid the swelter.
And for apparently the first time this summer, even typically temperate Long Beach has opened cooling centers.
That city’s health department announced on Friday morning, July 28, that Long Beach’s community centers and public library branches are available as designated cooling centers during normal business hours. Folks can find the closest cooling centers in Long Beach at longbeach.gov/CoolingCenters.
“With rising summer temperatures, some exceeding high heat index, City Health Officer Dr. Anissa Davis reminds residents to take precautions against the heat,” Long Beach’s press release said. “The Heat Index is a measure of how hot it really feels when relative humidity is factored in with the actual air temperature.”
As of midday Friday, it was 77 degrees in Long Beach, with a heat index two degrees warmer. The high for Saturday is 83, which is relatively hot for the coastal city.
Other parts of the Southland, though, will have it much worse, with triple-digit temperatures expected to again bake much of the region as a high-pressure system continue to drive up temperatures to potentially record-setting and possibly dangerous levels.
“High pressure aloft over the region will keep a very warm air mass in place through the end of the week,” according to the National Weather Service. “A shallow marine intrusion will keep temperatures closer to normal across the coastal areas, and continue a return of at least patchy low clouds and fog each night and morning.”
Midweek, the NWS issued a heat advisory through Friday night for the Santa Clarita Valley, Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area, Calabasas, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, San Gabriel Mountains and the Golden State (5) and Antelope Valley (14) freeway corridors.
Forecasters said daytime…
Read the full article here
