Forecasters issued excessive heat warnings for Thursday and Friday in the northern Sacramento Valley, Trinity County and Siskiyou County.
Nighttime low temperatures are forecast to dip only to the low 80s or high 70s Thursday into Friday, Wanless said, which doesn’t give the body much time to cool off and can be dangerous.
“Stay hydrated, stay in air conditioning if you can,” Wanless said. “It will be especially dangerous for those vulnerable populations, the elderly [and] children … so check on your neighbors.” The northern Sacramento Valley is usually hot this time of year, often around 100 degrees, but Wanless said the heat forecast for Thursday and Friday is out of the ordinary.
There’s a “possibility of breaking records in Redding,” Wanless said. “The forecast high temperature for Redding [on Thursday] is 113, and that’s actually the record we have for that date.”Temperatures are set to hit 100 degrees in Portland on Tuesday, which is expected to be the hottest day of a heat spell that meteorologists believe will be unusually long for the region, which rarely sees such scorching weather.
The heat wave coming to Northern California is caused by the same ridge of high pressure that’s brought extremely high temperatures to
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