Heat wave coming to SLO County next week. Here’s how warm it will get
Get ready to feel the heat.
A heat wave is expected to hit San Luis Obispo County next week, according to predictions by the National Weather Service.
Inland areas will likely see the worst of the hot weather, the Weather Service said in its latest forecast.
”After what many people might consider a relatively comfortable weekend, the heat will really crank up next week,” the agency’s forecast said on Friday. “Confidence is growing that there will be a significant and prolonged heat wave.”
That heat wave will start on Monday or Tuesday and continue through the week and perhaps into the weekend, the Weather Service predicts.
The Paso Robles area is expected to see temperatures peak at 94 degrees on Monday and 99 degrees on Tuesday. By Wednesday, temperatures in the area could rise to the low 100s, according to the Weather Service.
Atascadero will see milder but still hot temperatures, hitting the low 90 degrees through Wednesday and reaching about 97 degrees on Thursday, the Weather Service predicts.
Further up north near San Miguel, temperatures will be quite high early in the week. The Weather Service predicts temperatures to rise to 98 degrees on Monday and 103 degrees on Tuesday, 104 on Wednesday and 106 on Thursday.
Residents in the San Luis Obispo area will see much cooler temperatures, with the highest predicted to be 79 degrees on Thursday.
That’s similar to coastal beach areas such as Cambria, Cayucos, Morro Bay, Avila Beach and Pismo Beach — which aren’t expected to breach the low 70s all next week, the Weather Service predicts.
It’s unlikely that the heat in the inland areas will subside after next week, however.
“What is concerning is that long-range guidance suggests that heat may build over next weekend and persist into the following week, making for a very prolonged period of high heat for inland areas,” the Weather Service said in its forecast on Friday. “Such a stretch would likely be quite dangerous, since the diminished ability for cooling would likely increase the incidents of heat related illnesses. It would also stress the power grid.”
The heat wave in the San Luis Obispo County interior valleys was made more likely by climate change, according to researchers with Climate Central, an independent science and communications organization.
The organization’s conclusion came by analyzing how likely a weather event would be in today’s world and contrasting that with an estimate of how likely it would have been in a world when humans didn’t cause greenhouse gas emissions, according to Climate Central’s vice president for science Andrew Pershing in an interview with the Sacramento Bee.
