BEAT THE HEAT? WATER WORKS.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer The San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. is known for its high temperatures, but residents unable to get to the beach or a pool can still find cool spots. The nearness of trees, the orientation of a neighborhood to the mountains and a nice breeze can make all the difference between suffering and relief. Burbank is one area that consistently has temperatures 10 degrees cooler than parts of the West Valley, said Bruce Rockwell, spokesman for the National Weather Service. Valley Village and Sherman Oaks residents said the presence of trees in their neighborhoods also cools their streets. ``None of these places are real cool, but they're not quite as hot as the others,'' Rockwell said. Dan Schroeder, 60, plays softball at McCambridge Park in Burbank with a team made up of members of his Glendale church. ``We like playing here because, no matter how bad it is, there seems to be a little bit of a breeze,'' Schroeder said. ``Makes it tolerable.'' The cooler weather may even make for better gamesmanship games·man·ship n. 1. The art or practice of using tactical maneuvers to further one's aims or better one's position: . ``Our team is called the Salem Lutheran Heat, so we don't mind the temperature,'' he said. For residents of Palmdale, cooler weather came in the form of a sudden thunderstorm thunderstorm, violent, local atmospheric disturbance accompanied by lightning, thunder, and heavy rain, often by strong gusts of wind, and sometimes by hail. Sunday afternoon. Sue Freeman had plans for the evening but found herself marooned with other neighbors by late afternoon with water covering the headlights of their cars. ``It's insane,'' said Palmdale's Freeman, 39, of the deluge at about 4:15 p.m. at 27th Street West and Sandstone Court. ``We just had a monsoon - I'm higher than my knees in water. It's so bad we can't get out of our driveways.'' There was a flash flood warning A Flash Flood Warning is issued when a flash flood is imminent or occurring in the warned area. A flash flood is a sudden, violent flood after a heavy rain. Rainfall intensity and duration, topography, soil conditions, and ground cover contribute to flash flooding. for Lancaster and Palmdale until 6 p.m., Rockwell said. Humidity from remnants of Hurricane Emily The name Emily has been used for five tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, and five tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. It was used in the Eastern Pacific before the formal naming system was instituted, and then it was used on the old four-year lists. contributed to the storm, which dumped four-fifths of an inch of rain and pea-size hail for about an hour, he said. In other areas, the weather was cooler Sunday than it had been in recent days. It was 88 degrees in Burbank, 91 in Van Nuys, 85 in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or and 77 in both Oxnard and Camarillo. This was a dramatic drop from last week, when temperatures Friday reached 109 in Woodland Hills. But at the Travel Town Museum The Travel Town Museum is an outdoor transportation museum in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. The primary collection focus of the Travel Town Museum is the history of railroad transportation in the western United States from 1880 to the 1930s. in Griffith Park Griffith Park is a large public park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is situated in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,210 acres (17 km²) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. on Sunday, Shanae Smith, 34, and her family enjoyed the breeze and the shade trees at a birthday party. ``This is much more bearable bear·a·ble adj. That can be endured: bearable pain; a bearable schedule. bear than where I just drove in from,'' said Smith, who lives in Moreno Valley. ``It's like being in the desert right there.'' Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) David Anderson, 8, of West Hills flies into the air Sunday after being launched by his father, Eric, at the Woodland Hills Swimming Pool. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer (2) A surfer takes advantage of the hot weather to ride the waves at Topanga State Beach on Sunday. Thousands headed to local beaches to beat the heat. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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