A (compassionate) guide to sunscreen for Seattle summer
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We’re back to our regularly scheduled summer temperatures, so it’s the perfect time to get outside and have some fun.
But don’t forget: that glorious summer sun is also a danger to your skin.
It’s the perfect time of year for a refresher on how to stay safe without living in that sunscreen stickiness for the next two months.
Dermatologist Paul Nghiem, head of the UW School of Medicine Dermatology Department, brings us practical solutions.
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
| 0:01.8 | It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
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| 0:22.8 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, good morning. It's Patricia Murphy. It's Thursday. This is Seattle now. We're back to |
| 0:32.9 | our regularly scheduled summer temperatures. A perfect time to get outside and have some fun. |
| 0:39.0 | But don't forget, that glorious summer sun is also a danger to your skin. |
| 0:44.0 | We've all seen the spot on the back that got missed, right? Or the streaks that got missed. |
| 0:50.0 | That just tells you how important sunscreen is. |
| 0:53.3 | Time for a refresher on how to stay safe without living in that sunscreen stickiness for the next two months. |
| 0:59.9 | Dermatologist Paul Neum is here with some practical solutions. |
| 1:03.4 | But first, let's get you caught up. |
| 1:17.0 | The hot dry weather this week means an increased risk of wildfire. |
| 1:21.8 | On Wednesday, Washington officials banned outdoor fires on state-managed land. |
| 1:26.6 | The burn ban includes campfires, prescribed burns, and the use of charcoal briquettes. |
| 1:33.0 | Multiple fires are already burning in central Washington, but so far, no smoke in the forecast for Seattle. |
| 1:39.7 | A Seattle City Council Committee will hear about how new investments in youth mental health worked out today. |
| 1:44.5 | Seattle tested several approaches at seven SPS middle and high schools. |
| 1:54.3 | According to the presentation, the program faced budget and staffing challenges, but increased the number of students seeing counselors and decreased stigma against mental health care. |
| 2:01.7 | The initiative grew out of student activism following the shooting death of a 17-year-old student at Ingram High School in 2021. |
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