WEST SEATTLE WEATHER: Heat alert, library changes for next 2 days

For the third consecutive week, a two-day heat wave is in the forecast, and it’s generated a Heat Advisory alert from the National Weather Service. The alert is for noon tomorrow (Wednesday, August 24th) to midnight Thursday night; temperatures could get into the low 90s. Because of the hot weather, the two local branches of the Seattle Public Library that are not, or not fully, air-conditioned will change their hours: The Southwest (9010 35th SW) and West Seattle/Admiral (2306 42nd SW) branches will both open early tomorrow, at 10 am, and will both be closed Thursday.

anonyme August 23, 2022 (5:32 pm)

Southwest is a fairly new branch and it is ridiculous that it was not built with air-conditioning. Nor does it make sense that neither of these branches has been retro-fitted. Instead of huge ‘library’ levies that provide services entirely unrelated to library needs and then eliminating fines so that no one need ever feel the horrendous burden of personal responsibility, perhaps libraries should be fitted out with the basics found in any other modern facility.

WSB August 23, 2022 (5:41 pm)

During his visit to High Point, as reported in our coverage, new chief librarian Tom Fay said SW will get full A/C (I believe it’s already partly A/C’d) next year.

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