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Your SoCal Weather Report For Tuesday, June 4: Warming Trend Continues With Excessive Heat In The Deserts This Week
Forecast highs for Monday afternoon.
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A warming trend continues and will bring excessive heat for the desert communities come Wednesday.
Quick Facts
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- Today’s weather: Warm, mostly overcast
- Beaches: 70s
- Mountains: 70s-80s
- Inland: 80s-90s
- Warnings and advisories: Excessive Heat Watch
Today's skies will be mostly overcast with some sunshine peeking out in the later afternoon for the valleys and sunnier conditions in the deserts.
Highs along the coast will be in the 70s, low 80s for the inland coast. The valleys and inland areas will see highs in the 80s, up to 95 degrees for the Inland Empire. Expect tonight's lows to be in the low 60s, upper 50s and in the 70s for the deserts.
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The deserts are seeing a significant warmup ahead of an excessive heat wave happening tomorrow. Today high desert communities will experience temperatures from 92 to 101 degrees, up to 103 in Coachella Valley.
About the advisory
Come Wednesday, the National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat watch for the high and low desert — that includes the Antelope Valley, Apple and Lucerne valleys and Coachella Valley.
Here's a breakdown of what to expect:
Hot, hot... ohh, hot deserts☀️. Hottest temperatures expected Wednesday 06/05 through Friday 06/07 this week. Take it easy outdoors and bring your biggest water bottle with you 💧. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/HmgUIqoLt0
— NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) June 3, 2024
This excessive heat will start Wednesday morning through Friday evening. Now is the time to prepare ahead of the heat.
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Tips to stay cool
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- Kiddie pool
- Lotions in the fridge
- Eat spicy foods in the basement (or on the floor) while wearing a damp shirt and listening to the rain setting on your white noise machine
- Make sure ceiling fans are running counterclockwise
- Wet paper towels. Fold into ankle and wrist cuffs. Freeze. Wear. Repeat.
- Build a DIY AC
- Build a mini cold air fan
- Build an "evaporative cooler for immediate heat relief"
- Make a barricade of fans and ice cubes
- Go to an air-conditioned store and browse for as long as possible (Target is a good option for this).
- Close all the curtains, preferably the heat-absorbing kind
- Or open all the windows, depending on the breeze situation
- Cool bath or shower twice a day
- Wash your sheets before bed but don't dry them — put them on your bed damp (provided you're dealing with a dry heat)
- Portable A/C unit
This day in history
On this day in 1963, it was 22 degrees in Big Bear.
Things to do
- Free Ice Cream Scoops: If you ever wanted to understand the wild, world-travel-inspired flavor combos at Wanderlust Creamery, look no further than the new book, The Wanderlust Creamery Presents: The World of Ice Cream by chef and founder Adrienne Borlongan, available starting June 4. To celebrate, all locations will be offering a free scoop to anyone who buys the cookbook in-store or has pre-ordered the book (with a valid receipt).
- Katherine Vaz With Laura Warrell: Novelists Laura Warrell and Katherine Vaz sit down at Zibby’s on Montana Ave to talk about Vaz’s latest book Above the Salt, which follows a love story between two Portuguese refugees during the American Civil War. Vaz is the first Portuguese American to have her work recorded for the archives of the Library of Congress (Hispanic Division); Warrell, who wrote last year’s Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award.
Check out our full list of things to do this week.
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