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Doesn't it look lovely outside?
Cloudy, almost sultry if you will.
What's it gonna be today? 65º? 70 perhaps? Will this wonderful day crest the 80º-mark?
Too right it will. It's predicted to be 97º today. It was 99 yesterday.
We're sure we're not the only ones who've had enough...
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Today, meteorologist Miles Muzio from KBAK Channel 29 posted his prediction for "No More 100" days on his blog at BakersfieldNow.com. He cites a trend of "trofiness" (I can't find a definition of this word) and medium- and long-range computer models. He also says his "No...
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It seems like every summer people freak out about the heat like they've never felt it before, like it's not an eventuality.
Guess what, people. Bakersfield is hot. It's kind of our thing.
This seasonal amnesia happens back East during the first snow of winter. Motorists forget that snow is...
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It's so hot in Bakersfield that ...
you know someone's going to post an "It's so hot in Bakersfield" list!
Thanks to b.com blogger, Tiffanilynn, for getting us started this summer.
We particularly like No. 4:
"You find out in August that it only takes two fingers to steer a...
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The weather of this past week may cause West Nile virus problems from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
First, let's start locally.
The hotter it gets the faster mosquitoes breed and the faster the virus replicates.
It reached 110 degrees Saturday, according to Weather.com. And while...
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Talk about miserable. We bypassed the rest of spring these past few days and landed smack dab into the middle of the worst summer temperatures.
104 degrees. That's not a gentle reminder that summer is on its way, it's a boiling beatdown, the kind of surprise that keeps us inside, AC unit...
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I'll never forget the day I covered Latino family day at the Kern County Fair four years ago. As I interviewed a Folklorico dancer, our makeup dripped down both of our faces. Then, suddenly, I was blind. My mascara had run into my eyes and they were on fire. I squeezed my eyes shut. The dancer...
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In my opinion and experience, the legal system in this country has been convoluted for years (maybe decades), but today they proved without doubt that their priorities are skewed severely out of place. I just read in the BC that, in Phoenix, AZ, a cop left his police dog in his car for hours on a...
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It's friggin hot! My swamp cooler is at the point where it won't catch up. So I've given up on it and I'm hiding in my bedroom in the evenings, which has a little electrical window unit. Ahhhh, nothing better than just relaxing in bed with cool air blowing on me. I was asleep by 9 p.m.!
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This may be a silly question to someone who knows the in's-n-out's of cars... but is there any way to "enhance" my car's air conditioning system? It is WAY TOO HOT outside this summer and my air takes half the distance towards my destination to finally cool off. Is there a...
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Heat stabilized air quality
By Sarah Ruby
When mercury rises, air pollution doesn't necessarily follow.
Consider the recent heat wave. Temperatures soared to a high of 116 degrees in parts of Kern County, yet the air did not get appreciably worse. In some cases, the air was better than it...
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My contact at the air district passed along this graphic, which shows during our heat wave Fresno and Bakersfield had better air quality than the rest of the state.
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Our editor Davin McHenry raised a good point about air quality. Usually, when temperatures go up, the air gets worse. But if you look at our 108+ degree days, the air did not get appreciably worse. In some cases, the air was better than it had been when temperatures were cooler.
There are a...
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