HEAT WAVE; COOL POOL GIVES ONLY RELIEF.Byline: Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writer As soaring temperatures baked the Southland for a third straight day Thursday, one of the coolest places in town was the swimming pool at Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. Memorial Park in Pacoima. Arturo Zepeda, 17, said he barely paused between school and home before heading for the pool just a few blocks from his house. ``It's fresh and cool,'' Zepeda said as he wrestled in the water with his younger brother Wiki is aware of the following uses of "'Younger Brother":
Outside the pool, he said, ``It's so hot, it's burning.'' Lifeguard Jennifer DaSilva watched a group of more than 30 swimmers float, bob and paddle about the water. ``We usually don't have anyone here. It's great. I hope it stays this way.'' Although the mercury topped 92 degrees Thursday at the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Civic Center, 98 in Woodland Hills and 93 in Burbank, relief is in sight. Temperatures are expected to cool down this weekend to highs in the low 80s, said Greg Martin, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard. The heat wave is the result of a ridge of high pressure over the southwestern United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. that is blocking out the deep marine layer referred to locally as ``June gloom,'' Martin said. The high pressure system has ``helped squash the marine layer we would typically have this time of year,'' he said. Those with asthma, emphysema emphysema (ĕmfĭsē`mə), pathological or physiological enlargement or overdistention of the air sacs of the lungs. A major cause of pulmonary insufficiency in chronic cigarette smokers, emphysema is a progressive disease that commonly and other respiratory problems yearned for the end of the heat wave. ``I've had 25 percent more calls,'' said Rose Davis, a customer service representative for Abbey Medical, a Canoga Park business that provides medical supplies, oxygen and respiratory equipment. ``Because of the heat, it's harder to breathe, especially for children with asthma and for the elderly with emphysema,'' she said. The hot weather can make life trying even for parents of healthy kids. ``As the temperatures soar, so do tempers,'' said Janet Jackson of Lake View Terrace, who was at the Hubert Humphrey Memorial Park pool with her 10-year-old daughter, Jasmine. ``Kids get irritable and fussy,'' said Jackson, who finds that the water cools off even the most hot-headed hot-headed Adjective impetuous, rash, or hot-tempered hot-headedness n hot-headed adjective volatile children. The heat forced some schools, including Limerick Avenue Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Canoga Park, to adopt shortened schedules. The decision on whether or not to call a shortened day is made by the principal and regional administrator, said Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. spokesman Shel Erlich. The shortened schedules occur only at schools where less than half the classrooms have air conditioning. When the forecast is for temperatures of 95 degrees, the decision must be made for the following day, because notes must be sent home to parents, Erlich said. So far, he said, no schools have closed because of the weather. National Weather Service officials also issued warnings about the ultraviolet index level, expected to be 9 in the Los Angeles area today. A reading of 7 to 9 means that a person with fair skin could be sunburned sun·burn n. Inflammation or blistering of the skin caused by overexposure to direct sunlight. tr. & intr.v. sun·burned or sun·burnt , sun·burn·ing, sun·burns To affect or be affected with sunburn. in 7 to 8 minutes. The reading indicates what the UV exposure is expected to be at noon when the sun's rays are at their strongest. CAPTION(S): chart, 2 Photos PHOTO (1 -- color) Tina Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the smiles at a cool splash of water in a swimming pool at Pacoima. Evan Yee/Daily News (2 -- color) Young soccer players take a break Thursday to cool down and avoid dehydration during a match at West Valley Park. Gus Ruelas/Daily News Chart: Feeling the heat |
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