An intense and prolonged July heat wave kept the San Diego area in its sweltering grip Wednesday, generating more potentially health- endangering temperatures in some areas with little relief in the extended forecast.<\/p>\n
The oppressively hot conditions, which are due to linger through the weekend, include thermometer readings in the mid-90s to just over 100 degrees in the mountains and up to 119 in desert communities. The National Weather Service issued an extreme-heat warning for those locales until at least 8 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n
In the arid, sun-blasted eastern reaches of the county, even the nighttime lows are expected to be quite warm \u2014 remaining in the upper 80s to mid-90s on Thursday and Friday, meteorologists advised.<\/p>\n
For coastal and inland-valley areas, where temperatures are expected to climb as high as the lower 90s and 105 respectively, a less urgent NWS heat advisory was scheduled to remain in effect over the same period.<\/p>\n
Authorities advise people in the hottest spots to prevent heat-related ill health effects by drinking plenty of non-alcoholic fluids, staying out of the sun during the warmest times of the day, taking shelter in air- conditioned spaces if possible and checking up on at-risk friends, relatives and neighbors.<\/p>\n
People are also reminded to never leave children or pets in a parked vehicle for even a minute, as inside temperatures can rapidly reach deadly levels.<\/p>\n
Monday and Tuesday should cool a few degrees each, but more temperature-raising high pressure could return near the end of next week, forecasters advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intense and prolonged July heat wave kept the San Diego area in its sweltering grip Wednesday, generating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[443,18235,19931,101044,164092,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-409390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-heat-wave","tag-hot-weather","tag-july-weather","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}