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Posted: July 13 2006,5:17 am |
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The heat is on.
The National Weather Service is predicting temperatures around 115 degrees for the next few days, with highs of 117 degrees possible for Saturday and Sunday for Lake Havasu.
With temperatures that hot, residents should expect heat advisories, right? "Wrong", says National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Bailey.
“We don't issue heat advisories. We issue excessive heat warnings, which has a higher criteria,†Bailey said.
The Phoenix area has been under a heat advisory for the past few days. Even though Lake Havasu City is typically hotter by a few degrees than Phoenix, the city does not see advisories because Mohave County falls under the Las Vegas office of the National Weather Service.
The Las Vegas office looks at the temperatures for the hottest parts of the United States -- southern Clark County, eastern San Bernardino County and Mohave County - when determining what temperatures are normal and what should call for extra caution.
“Any day out here can be dangerous in the summer. But when we approach record highs, that's when we take a look at issuing a warning,†said Bailey.
“We're averaging the record high. Say, for example, today's high is 117, tomorrow is 122 and the following day is 115. We don't want to issue a warning every day; that desensitizes people to the danger. We're aiming for the days that are really unusual.â€
Bailey said that expected temperatures over the next week should be within two to three degrees of the first step of the warning procedure.
“We're starting to flirt with the warning criteria, not quite there yet,†Bailey said.
July is traditionally the hottest month of the year for Lake Havasu City, although the record high for the city -- 128 degrees -- was seen in June. It was June 28, 1994, when record temperatures combined with bacteria in the lake to create one of the greatest economic downturns in city history.
Elevated bacteria at a few of the city's beaches and coves forced Mohave County Environmental Health officials to order no body contact with the water in those areas. However media outside of Lake Havasu City, reported Lake Havasu as contaminated and closed.
The news spread quickly and effectively killed July Fourth and Labor Day tourism activity that year and visitors stayed away the following year. It took about four years for the city's bed and sales tax, as well as issuance of residential building permits, to rebound to pre-July 1994 levels.[/color]
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