With temperatures expected to soar to 105 to 106 degrees today through Sunday, the City of Lathrop is offering two locations in town where those without air conditioning can cool down during the heat wave.
Meanwhile, Manteca’s cooling center — located at the transit center, 220 Moffat Blvd., is expected to be open all three days. Call 209-456-8080 for more details.
Today from 12 to 7 p.m. the Lathrop Police Department will use its Community Room at the Lathrop Police Department – located at 940 River Islands Parkway – for residents that either don’t have air conditioning or are having issues with their unit during the heat wave.
On Saturday, July 1, the cooling center will be shifted to the Lathrop Generations Center located at 450 Spartan Way across from Lathrop High School from noon to 7 p.m.
If nobody has arrived or is using the cooling center by 6 p.m., the sites will close for the day.
While California has been experiencing cooler than usual temperatures – San Francisco failed to hit 70 degrees this month for only the third time in the last 100 years – the scorching heat that parts of the state are known for is expected to arrive with a vengeance.
Today, according to the National Weather Service, Sacramento is expected to log its first triple-digit day of the year while community in the Southern San Joaquin Valley like Bakersfield and Hanford are expected to hit 105 degrees while Fresno pushes towards the 110-degree mark.
But they won’t be only cities burning up over the weekend.
Accuweather forecasts that Lathrop will hit 105 degrees today, 107 degrees on Saturday, and drop down to 106 degrees on Sunday – a three-day whammy heading into the Fourth of July holiday where fireworks usage is expected to be high.
Because of the extremely wet winter and the unusually cool spring, fire officials are warning Californians to use caution this holiday because the heat wave will dry out the abundant vegetation that was able to grow thanks to the excessive amount of water and could provide ample fuel for fires to burn out of control.
And options for cooling off this weekend aren’t as plentiful as they usually are when the mercury soars past the century mark.
Because of the massive snowpack still sitting in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the bitterly cold temperature of the rivers that are fed by the melting snow, the National Weather Service is recommending that anybody planning on getting into a river in California this holiday wear a lifejacket – and that’s only in areas where rivers are legally accessible.
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office only removed restrictions on the San Joaquin River this week after water conditions improved – also leading to the agency removing the evacuation warnings from both Haven Acres and the Airport Court area. The river was closed at its source from Friant Dam through Madera and Fresno Counties until earlier this month due to the high-water levels and the overall conditions.
To contact Bulletin reporter Jason Campbell email jcampbell@mantecabulletin.com or call 209.249.3544.
