Highs were expected to soar into the triple digits across many inland parts of the region, prompting warnings to take refuge from the potentially dangerous heat.
, cooling centers are open in San Jose, Santa Clara, Los Altos, Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Palo Alto, Saratoga and Sunnyvale. Alameda County did not list any cooling centers open Saturday morning.
The heat wave was expected to bake most of California through the weekend, the result of a “high pressure system in the upper atmosphere causing a lot of warm air to come in from the deserts in the southwest,” said weather service meteorologist Dial Hoang. In parts of the Sacramento Valley and Central Valley, temperatures are expected to top 110 degrees. Farther south, tourists have flocked to Death Valley in anticipation of temperatures approaching 130 degrees — which would flirt with a nearly 100-year-old record set in one of the hottest places on Earth.
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