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The National Weather Service is forecasting extremely hot conditions in the local area over the Labor Day weekend, with temperatures predicted to exceed 100 degrees in Mountain View on Friday and Saturday.
Temperatures in Menlo Park and Atherton are also forecasted to peak on Saturday, with highs near 100.
The weather service has issued an excessive heat warning from 11 a.m. Friday to 9 p.m. Monday.
The weather service warns of a high risk of heat-related illness especially for sensitive groups, such as elderly, children and sick people, as well as pets and livestock. The heat will be dangerous to anyone without proper hydration or adequate cooling.
People are advised to schedule holiday weekend activities in the morning or evening when temperatures will be cooler and there will be less exposure to direct sunlight.
“Drink plenty of fluids … stay in an air-conditioned room … stay out of the sun … and check up on relatives and neighbors,” the weather service advises.
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106 degrees out there currently. Hot! And it’s only Friday.
looks like Moffett topped out at 106. I believe the all time high to be 107, so didn’t hit that, but the september high was (105?) I think.
The article gives a good advice on how to survive extremely hot days. What the article did not mention, though, is how unusual is such a weather for Mountain View. All climate models agree that the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in atmosphere inevitably leads to more extreme weather events. The extremes become the new norm, and this is not the norm we would like.
This should remind us that we have to do something about climate change, and not just complain about bad weather. There are technological solutions we all know – renewable energy, hybrid and electric cars. What is missing is a sensible economic policy, such as Carbon Fee and Dividend that would accelerate a transition to clean energy by placing a fee on fossil fuel use and returning the collected revenue directly to all households. Want to make this happen? Go to https://citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/CA_Silicon_Valley_North/
Yes, it was hot yesterday and today. An alert from Santa Clara County on the emergency alert system that buzzed on all phones yesterday was possibly helpful the first time and in multiple languages, yes possibly. But the repeat alerts sent during the day and evening yesterday and this morning and again this afternoon, multiple times, is overkill. Some people are switching off the alerts because they are so annoying.
Boy who called Wolf comes to mind.
The boy calling wolf was calling out a danger that did not exist. The alerts were for an actual danger that was occurring. Maybe you were just in a mood that found you easily irritated. If only you could control what your cell phone does. If only.
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What nonsense, of course I know how to use my phone. The point being that there has been overkill and many people are turning their alerts off because of the nuisance alerts over the past few days. You may or may not think that this was a fair use of the Emergency Alert System, but one alert containing the information in several languages would have been a much more proper way to communicate the information. Instead, the repeated alerts with annoying buzzers in which several people in a room kept receiving the alerts was not necessarily helpful.
The boy who called wolf meant that when a real emergency came nobody believed the call. The analogy here is that when a real emergency alert comes through, all of us would have turned the alerts off and none of us would get the urgent information.
I support your right to get really really upset about this. Hopefully some other aspect of the world will be to your exact liking to balance out the negative issue you perceive this one to be. The energy and time you have for this topic is admirable.