WEST SEATTLE WEATHER: Heat alert ahead

It’s almost an embodiment of the classic joke about summer in Seattle starting right after the Fourth of July. The Fourth actually still looks great – but the day after, and all the way to Monday, a heat alert kicks in. The National Weather Service’s Heat Advisory for our area will be in effect noon Friday (July 5) through 10 pm Monday (July 8). The NWS expects “Hot conditions with temperatures in the upper 80s and 90s … This will pose a moderate to major risk of heat-related illness.” This is our first heat alert since last August. (Don’t worry about tomorrow … mid-70s.)

lucy July 3, 2024 (3:01 pm)

Oh No! It’s summer and it might get hot! In the SUMMER! We are all going to DIE!

Seattlite July 3, 2024 (5:38 pm)

Seattle only has a few weeks of hot weather that is over 80 degrees. I don’t think it is anything to panic about. Keep hydrated…stay in the shade…don’t overexert without available water…wear sunscreen… If I left anything out, please chime in and add to the list.

WSB July 3, 2024 (6:14 pm)

No one’s “panicking” that I know of. However, when the National Weather Service issues an alert, as they do now and then, we publish word of that, whether it’s hot weather, cold weather, windy weather …
- Rhonda July 3, 2024 (8:31 pm)
  
  I’m panicking.
  - WSB July 3, 2024 (9:27 pm)
    
    I spent too many years living in the desert (where Las Vegas currently is 35 degrees hotter than here, 104 to 69) to panic – I complain instead – but wishing you good luck finding ways to be comfortable.
DL July 4, 2024 (12:09 pm)

@seattlelite No one is panicking. It’s an alert not an emergency. Also it’s easy to have all the answers to it when you are young, well and able bodied. For infants, pets, older adults and the homeless population, alerts can quickly become emergencies. I’m glad the state cares about everyone, not just the well and privileged.

Sunshine July 3, 2024 (6:18 pm)

Seattleite, you forgot, “Don’t take the brown acid.”I appreciate the WSB for reminding folks when weather gets more dangerous than usual!

1994 July 3, 2024 (10:12 pm)

What is the brown acid? That is a new one I have not heard about, please issue a full description and warning so we know what to avoid during the hot days ahead.
- peter July 4, 2024 (9:16 am)
  
  obviously you’re not an old hippie… brown acid was a bummer, big bummer, bummer…. Lol
- OneTimeCharley July 4, 2024 (9:20 am)
  
  This is a reference to a rumor that spread through the crowd at the original Woodstock regarding hazardously intense LSD that was ‘brown’. Not sure if that referred to the color of the substrate that it was on or the liquid itself, or if it was a rumor or true, but now you know the origin you can probably better understand Sunshine’s comment. I call it a quip, and an amusing one at that.