Officials have issued an excessive heat advisory in southwest California through Friday and a heat advisory for Northern California through the weekend. “It’s basically everything west of the Rockies,” said Charles Bell, a National Weather Service meteorologist in the Bay Area. “I just read all the warnings about heat stroke and dehydration, and it sounds like we’re living in the desert, not beautiful Southern California where everyone goes to visit the beaches. In June, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in Northern California experienced several outages amid a brutal heat wave when the humidity kept temperatures oppressively hot overnight. The same thing is happening now in Southern California.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 30, 2017 18:23 UTC