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Heat wave moving from California eastward
SAN DIEGO, Southern Californians endured another day of blistering heat Saturday, with temperatures soaring past the century mark.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported by noon it reached 111 degrees in Borrego Springs, 106 in Ocotillo Wells, 101 in Ramona and 100 in Valley Center. Nineties were common through the region away from the coast.
The Los Angeles Fire Department an 11 percent spike in calls Friday but no heat-related deaths in the city, the Los Angeles Times reported. It hit 104 degrees in the San Fernando Valley Friday, and Westwood set a record of 90 degrees and Long Beach tied its record of 95.
The death of a 54-year-old Central Valley worker at a vineyard in Arvin Wednesday was being investigated by state officials as possibly heat-related, the Times said.
"Because of the dangerously warm temperatures, people should be cautious to drink liquids and check on their neighbors," Bonnie Bartling of the National Weather Service said.
Relief is on the way for California, Bartling said, with highs expected to begin moderating Sunday as a heat-fueling, high-pressure system departs.
However, the pain will just be shifting eastward. Accuweather.com says it will get dangerously hot in parts of the South and Plains states through at least the middle of the coming week. The Midwest and mid-Atlantic won't be immune, either, Accuweather.com said.
Temperatures Sunday will surge into the 90s and past 100 degrees from the deserts of Southern California across Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas.
By Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday temperatures will fade a bit in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Houston, but get hotter and stickier from Kentucky and Tennessee southward to the Gulf Coast and eastward through the Carolinas and Georgia.
SAN DIEGO, Southern Californians endured another day of blistering heat Saturday, with temperatures soaring past the century mark.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported by noon it reached 111 degrees in Borrego Springs, 106 in Ocotillo Wells, 101 in Ramona and 100 in Valley Center. Nineties were common through the region away from the coast.
The Los Angeles Fire Department an 11 percent spike in calls Friday but no heat-related deaths in the city, the Los Angeles Times reported. It hit 104 degrees in the San Fernando Valley Friday, and Westwood set a record of 90 degrees and Long Beach tied its record of 95.
The death of a 54-year-old Central Valley worker at a vineyard in Arvin Wednesday was being investigated by state officials as possibly heat-related, the Times said.
"Because of the dangerously warm temperatures, people should be cautious to drink liquids and check on their neighbors," Bonnie Bartling of the National Weather Service said.
Relief is on the way for California, Bartling said, with highs expected to begin moderating Sunday as a heat-fueling, high-pressure system departs.
However, the pain will just be shifting eastward. Accuweather.com says it will get dangerously hot in parts of the South and Plains states through at least the middle of the coming week. The Midwest and mid-Atlantic won't be immune, either, Accuweather.com said.
Temperatures Sunday will surge into the 90s and past 100 degrees from the deserts of Southern California across Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas.
By Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday temperatures will fade a bit in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Houston, but get hotter and stickier from Kentucky and Tennessee southward to the Gulf Coast and eastward through the Carolinas and Georgia.