Heat Wave Prompts Hazardous Weather Outlook For Bay Area
The National Weather Service Sunday issued a hazardous weather outlook for early this week and midweek for portions of the Bay Area.
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The National Weather Service Sunday issued a hazardous weather outlook for early this week and midweek for portions of the Bay Area.
A heat advisory was issued Saturday for the Bay Area and a fire warning for the East Bay hills is in effect through 9 p.m.
Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties are allowing dairy farmers to bury or compost hundreds of carcasses because a rendering plant is overwhelmed.
Growers and winemakers in Northern California have started irrigating early and humidifying barrel rooms to get ahead of the heat.
South Bay neighbors who lived near one of the two senior citizens who died from heat-related complications earlier this week remembered 87-year-old Setsu Jordan's smile.
It was only a month ago that a female black bear was slated to be euthanized by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife after she injured a home owner with a swat from her paw after breaking into a Kern County house.
For the first time in history, the Alameda County Fair cancelled a day of horse racing Thursday as temperatures began soaring toward triple digits.
Santa Clara County health officials on Wednesday confirmed that two San Jose residents died on Monday due to heat-related conditions during the ongoing heat wave gripping the Bay Area.
Power outages that at one point Tuesday left over 10,000 PG&E customers without electrical service in the East Bay have been reduced to about 2,200.
When it comes to getting airplanes off the ground in broiling weather, it's not the heat or the humidity. It's the air density.
With temperatures beginning to soar again toward triple digits, a massive fallen tree limb triggered a power outage to more than 1,800 PG&E customers in a Walnut Creek neighborhood.
Fresno Humane Animal Services has been left with nearly 1,000 small animals after California authorities seized them from a truck trailer.
State power officials have projected near record electricity demands for at least the next two days as temperatures soar to record heights in many areas of California.
Napa police issued a warning Monday to local pet owners about the dangers of leaving dogs inside vehicles during the current heat wave.
Heavy rains and snow this past winter has left rivers flowing higher than average and reservoirs near capacity.
Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously thought and they are going to grow more frequent, according to a new comprehensive study of fatal heat conditions.
High temperatures in nine San Francisco Bay Area locations were new records for Sunday's date, National Weather Service officials said.
Central Valley high temperatures will range from 105 to 110 degrees Sunday and Monday.
Bay Area residents living inland are being warned to protect themselves from the heat, as near triple-digit temperatures are expected on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Forecasters are expecting unseasonably hot inland weather throughout the Bay Area over the weekend with temperatures in the triple digits.
arming springtime temperatures in California are expected to accelerate melting of the state's record snowpack, sending water surging down a major river in Yosemite National Park.
Forecasters said Sunday they expect the Merced River in Yosemite National Park to go about a foot over its banks.
Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics "Thriller," ''Rock With You" and many other hits, has died of cancer in London at 66.
A heat advisory has been issued for Sunday and Monday in the San Francisco Bay Area as western winds keep cool ocean air out to sea.
Expected hot weather has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a heat advisory for the Bay Area early next week.
