NATURE TURNING ON HEAT; SUMMER HITS, BUT COOL DAYS AHEAD.Byline: Alex Roth Daily News Staff Writer Summer began a week ago officially, but the mercury is only just catching up with the calendar. The summer's discomforting heat arrived Monday in 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. , with temperatures reaching the high 80s and even the 90s in some spots. Don't despair, however. It is expected to begin to cool off Thursday and Friday with temperatures in the mid-80s in the Valley and upper 60s and lower 70s at the beaches. No records were broken Monday, but the heat was intense enough to send people scurrying scur·ry intr.v. scur·ried, scur·ry·ing, scur·ries 1. To go with light running steps; scamper. 2. To flurry or swirl about. n. pl. scur·ries 1. The act of scurrying. to beaches and pools - and in search of air-conditioning repairs. ``We're booked solid,'' said Al Lopez Monday's high was 92 in Woodland Hills and 87 in Van Nuys. The Civic Center 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 reached 86 degrees. ``In reality it's quite normal for late spring, early summer,'' said meteorologist Bruce Rockwell of the National Weather Service in Oxnard. ``What's abnormal is that we waited so long to get this hot.'' Indeed, as hot as Monday was, it probably felt even hotter because the weather had been unusually cool up to now. A blanket of cool air has been hovering over the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, region, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Jonathan Slemmer, another meteorologist in Oxnard. ``We've been running cool for a while,'' Slemmer said. Some people found the cool weather pleasant. Lopez and others in the air-conditioning business found it a tad annoying. ``Anybody in the industry will tell you that when everyone is comfortable (naturally) it's bad for business,'' Lopez said. Conversely, the hot weather drove people to the beaches over the weekend and Monday. At Malibu area beaches, weekend attendance was about one-third higher than on the previous Saturday and Sunday, according to Capt. Roger Smith of 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. County Fire Department's lifeguard division. ``Usually when it starts getting baking around Agoura and the San Fernando Valley, we start loading up,'' Smith said. Meteorologists Atmospheric scientists
n. A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America, occurring periodically every 4 to 12 years and affecting Pacific and other weather patterns. , enduring into winter. Exactly the opposite of El Nino, La Nina is a stream of colder-than-usual water around the equator. In general, every El Nino has a 50-50 chance of producing a subsequent La Nina, climatologists say. Scientists say they've spotted the possible existence of a La Nina pattern in the past several weeks and are watching it closely. Where El Nino meant a rainy winter, La Nina would mean just the opposite, a very dry winter, according to Kelly Redmon of the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno. ``We're still sorting all this out,'' he said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Day campers cool off in a pool Monday at El Cariso County Park in Sylmar. Temperatures hit the high 80s and 90s in Los Angeles. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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