Is It Hot In Here -- Or Is It Just Me?
So...which area of Hell were you dwelling in yesterday?Many parts of L.A. broke records for "Hot As Hell" and Woodland Hills in the Valley was one of them.
Ahhh, Valley heat; that special level of Hot Weather intensity not known by anyone living over on the Westside; or in the ocean breeze-kissed beach communities; or even Downtown.
In L.A., the Valley is the Queen of Hot.
The DN lists the records broken yesterday .
From downtown to the ocean and valleys, more than a score of high-temperature records were set or tied on Saturday in the Southland during a third
consecutive weekend of hot weather, according to the National Weather Service. Five records were set or tied in Los Angeles County:
Woodland Hills heated up to 102 degrees, beating the record of 101 set in 1970.
Downtown Los Angeles recorded a high of 96, tying the record set way back in 1892.
Long Beach Airport reached 93, beating the record of 92 set in 1978.
UCLA in Westwood had a high of 92, beating the record of 90 set in 1967.
And Los Angeles International Airport reached 89 degrees, besting the record of 88 set in 1971.
Southern California's three recent record-breaking hot spells have all hit on weekends, which has delighted beachgoers. Meteorologists say the timing has just been coincidence.
"It is unusual that ... our heat waves this spring have predominately affected the weekends," said meteorologist Jamie Meier at the Los Angeles regional office of the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
The heat wave is expected to continue until about midweek, according to the Weather Service.
"By next weekend we will be back into our May gray and June gloom pattern," Meier said.
Meier said the National Weather Service has an official two-word explanation why the heat has occurred as if planned for the weekends:
"Go figure."
The Daily News says it won't be that hot today. According to the AccuWeather chart on their website, it should only reach 95 degrees. Actually, now that I'm looking at it (the AccuWeather forecast) again, it says the high in Woodland Hills yesterday reached 108, and not 102 as the paper reports. Using their math, that means it should really be more like 101 in the Valley!
Please, please, please remember: DO NOT keep your pets locked inside your car when it's so unbearably hot and more importantly, DON'T LEAVE YOUR KIDS IN THE CAR, either...not for a minute.
Remember to drink plenty of water, stay out of the sun during the hottest times of the day and if you know any elderly people who live alone, how about giving them a call or a visit and checking up on them to make sure they're keeping cool. Ask if they need help changing an air conditioning filter, or watering the pads of a swamp cooler.
We all need to look out for those who are especially vulnerable during these hot, hot days.
Labels: heatwaves, hell, hot, the valley
Posted by Debbie @ 5/18/2008 02:30:00 AM
9 Comments:
Heat like this should be illegal
When its hot like this crime goes way up cause the gang bangers drink all day then start to act up.
I can't believe this new Mecha editor at Daily News is allowing letters to Editor with stupid anonmous names. Goes to show her lack of class and desperation. Having said this one made me laugh.
Blame the politicians
Tony Villar (Tony Tax) helped create this mess by pretending not to know what state the economy was in. He is a complete moron if he thinks we will buy off on his statement that he didn't know the economy was going to take a dump.
As a city employee who loves Los Angeles and lives in the city, I take pride in the work I do each and every day. I don't believe for one moment that this budget crisis stems from the salaries employees receive. I firmly believe that the current budget crisis is a direct result of the poor leadership we elected.
Our mayor needs to be recalled because he is dishonest and stupid, and the City Council should also be ashamed in continuing his march to bankrupt the city. Just say no to more spending.
- LUVLA
Los Angeles
It's not even noon and I'm already whining.
The kids are whining that we're the ONLY FAMILY IN THE ENTIRE VALLEY with no swimming pool. I told them to get over it--we have sprinklers; even better, they could go outside and I'd hose them down.
Think I'll go soak a coupla of bras in water and stick them in the freezer for later. I hear it's magic on a Hell-like day. :)
xoxo
You're just soaking up the Daily News' big story, the kind that's designed to distract readers from what's really happening in the city.
As commenters keep noting on their blog and at RonKayeLA.com and all over town, this kind of thing is intended by new editor Carolina Garcia to keep the readers from what's important, while she pumps up the P R press for Alarcon -- featured on their front page recently as a saint, angels playing harps at his son's gravesite and all. (I kid you NOT.)
But never a good story about Greig Smith, the fiscal and social moderate from the Valley, who Alarcon went up against very nastily and personally I might add, on Las Lomas -- which Alarcon wanted -- and the expansion of Mission Hills Hospital -- which h
e didn't. Alarcon is always on the WRONG side of the issues, but maybe the fact that people are calling Editor Carolina Garcia a MeCHA whose true colors come out in bias like this, has something to do with it.
There's a very intentional intent at Daily News to wipe out Ron Kaye's populist, Un- P C legacy.
Why don't you join the Y or some cheap swim club, go to a municipal pool for a few bucks. Besides, it's too hot there at mid-day, get there around 5. This is a day meant to laze around doing videogrames or catching up on movies. Or save the AC and take them to a mall. Let them run around there and torture other people.
Hey VD, get the news to your friends in S-T, May 27th Zocalo is putting on a free forum at the Autry Center re: Ballots being used for competition between stores, in this case, Do It Center vs. H-D in Thousand Oaks. Who's trying to get voters to deny HD on grounds of traffic generation -- sound familiar?
It worked for them in Glendale, and we've seen this kind of thing in BH, downtown it didn't get to a ballot but one hotel fought another nearby, etc.
Free food always follows Zocalo evemts, and they're a nice spread./ Kick them a few bucks if you eat.
DON'T TELL THE MUTT AND HOMELESS CONTINGENT.
Besides lobbyists, "worker advocate" Jane you-know-who will be there, the thorn in the City's side, and a wild card: does she advocate FOR H-D, as providing work?
Correction on the Zocalo: It's not one of the Janes who'll be there (Blumenfeld or the relatively sane one but wild card, Usher), but -- roll "Lost"-type scary music: Madeline Janis. And Harvey Englander
Here is the "Zocalo" info.
Zócalo at Autry National Center
Tuesday, May 27, 7:30 pm at Autry National Center
Is Business Abusing the Ballot?
Moderated by Joe Mathews, Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation
Hotels attempt to use a referendum to block another hotel's plans in Beverly Hills. A mall takes its argument against a competitor's mall to the voters in Glendale. The owner of a local chain of hardware stores uses a ballot initiative to prevent Home Depot from opening a new store on his turf in Thousand Oaks. California businesses are increasingly taking their disputes with cities, labor and especially each other to municipal ballots in the form of initiatives and referenda. As a result, voters, not the market, are forced to pick business winners and losers and decide complex development, planning and zoning questions that are supposed to be handled by city governments. A panel of political and government leaders who have been involved in such ballot fights—including political consultants Rob Stutzman and Harvey Englander, Anaheim city councilwoman Lorri Galloway, and labor strategist and advocate Madeline Janis—discuss the trend and its costs. Why are more of these disputes ending up on the ballot? Do these measures slow growth or add to the cost of doing business in California? Are large businesses able to buy policy with expensive ballot campaigns? What other forces—poor municipal finances, weak financing, the interests of lawyers and political consultants--may be contributing to these fights?
To Reserve a Free Seat seat at Autry National Center Click Here
Great day to take my bike to the Sepulveda dam and ride around the bike paths and the bike path that runs along the bus way and sweat off the pounds and today Woodley
Ave. was closed do to a special event that was under way at Woodley Park.
And there where many LAPD cars providing security the sheriffs department and
Plenty of parking enforcement blocking traffic on Woodley a LAFD Paramedic
Vehicle present and there was even a Park Ranger great day to be a city employee
And the cost of the city services for this event had to exceed the use and permit
Fees for Special Events Woodley Park
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