HEAT EMERGENCY– Resources to Keep Informed

If you haven’t heard about the hot weather coming this weekend you are truly disconnected. The local news has been tracking the coming heat, while local and state governmental agencies are sending out warnings and tips about burn bans, surviving hot weather, and looking out for our neighbors and our pets.

We are not used to hot weather in the Pacific Northwest, especially in June (normally it is “Juneuary”) and especially temperatures in the 90’s to 100’s. A high pressure area is setting up over us that is providing the heat. A high such as this is unusual to occur in June. Normally it will set up later in the summer, according to KIRO TV meteorologist Claire Anderson. So, hopefully, we will have a little cooler rest of the summer not a repeat of hot and dry weather as we have now.

Many local and state resources are chiming in on social media and the news about burn bans and taking care of ourselves in the 100-degree weather. Here is a handy listing of resources to learn about how to handle the heat and to keep up with the latest heat related information,

 

National Resources:

Ready.gov with information on how to survive extreme heat:

https://www.ready.gov/heat

 

National Weather Service:

https://www.weather.gov/sew/

  

Snohomish County Resources:

Burn Ban Press Release:

https://www.snohomishcountywa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2138

 

Fire Marshal:

https://www.snohomishcountywa.gov/1113/Fire-Marshal

 

Snohomish Health District:

Cooling Stations:

https://www.snohd.org/BusinessDirectoryii.aspx?ysnShowAll=0&lngNewPage=3&txtLetter=&txtZipCode=&txtCity=&txtState=&txtBusinessName=&lngBusinessCategoryID=31&txtCustomField1=&txtCustomField2=&txtCustomField3=&txtCustomField4=&txtAreaCode=

 

Information on surviving extreme heat:

https://www.snohd.org/228/Weather