Massive Heat Wave to Engulf California

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It’s hot outside and getting hotter. Excessive heat warnings are in effect this week for Southern and Central California, with temperatures as high as 112 degrees in the San Fernando and San Joaquin Valleys and 115 degrees in the Inland Empire expected by Labor Day. And temperatures in Northern California are expected to be up to 20 degrees warmer than normal through Tuesday. We’ll talk about who’s most at risk, how to stay cool and how California’s state and local officials are thinking about mitigating the effects of heat and record temperatures induced by climate change. Guests: David Lawrence, meteorologist and Emergency Response Specialist, National Weather Service V. Kelly Turner, co-director, Luskin Center for Innovation; associate professor of Urban Planning and Geography, UCLA Dr. Gina Solomon, director of the Achieving Resilient Communities project, Public Health Institute; clinical professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia, representing California's 56th State Assembly District; lead sponsor, Assembly Bills 2238 and 2243 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:31.3	California is bracing for a scorching holiday weekend, where temperatures could easily be over
1:36.3	110 degrees in the Inland Empire and the San Fernando, San Joaquin, and Sacramento valleys.
1:42.3	Here's Governor Newsom.
1:43.3	We are anticipating this extreme heat to be a length and duration,
1:49.0	likes of which we haven't experienced in some time.
1:52.0	Well, look at why this is happening. Who's most at risk of getting sick, even dying, and how to stay Safe. Join us.
2:24.5	I'm Mina Kim. Welcome to Forum. It's hot and it will be for a while in California as the hottest and longest heat waves so far this year, according to forecasters, bears down on the state. Between now and next Wednesday, we're going to be experiencing a prolonged heat moment.
2:33.3	We're going to have opportunity now in the next a number of days to
2:37.2	experience many of us what many have not experienced back to back to back to back and that's
2:42.7	triple-digit weather. That's Governor Gavin Newsom at a press conference yesterday, where he
2:48.3	signed an executive order to temporarily boost the state's
2:51.3	energy supply ahead of the worst of this heat wave. David Lawrence is with us, a meteorologist,
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