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Uploaded: Friday, September 18, 2009, 12:48 PM
Updated: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 6:28 AM

Heat wave rolling into Bay Area
High temperatures expected Sunday through Wednesday

Posted by heating, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood, on Sep 18, 2009 at 2:04 pm

amazing long time residents arent talking about this constant year long heat. global heating is here. who knows what will happen, you never need heavy coats anymore in california! only 25 years ago you needed to wear a jacket at least 5 months straight per year! no more havent worn a jacket more than a few weeks anymore. too much heat never cools down. maybe it could revers and be warm and wet or maybe even freeze ,climate damage is an unknown

Posted by It's too Hot, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood, on Sep 18, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Is it true, that all city union workers are to go home with pay. If the the weather approaches 100 degrees.

That is what I heard. Don't know if it's true

Posted by neighbor, a resident of another community, on Sep 18, 2009 at 5:54 pm

Patience folks. It's hot in California in September...every year. My gosh...what if you lived in NYC or DC, where they deal with for months each summer.

If you are so angry on the first day of a heat wave, are you going to lose it by day 3 or 4?

Go to the movies, take a cool shower, cool off physically and emotionally.

From much of the discussion found on this site, Palo Alto seems like a very very angry place...not a pleasant community at all.

Posted by cool off in hot weather?, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Sep 18, 2009 at 6:30 pm

And most of our school children will be in classrooms that have no a/c.

Posted by yawk, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood, on Sep 18, 2009 at 6:51 pm

of course its hot in new york,but this isnt new york!! this is bay area,a looooooong tradition of rain wind cold nights for months! its climate change. you cannot compare another cliomate with this one! thats like saying to the polar bears ''warm,well you havent been to new york,as the poor bear drowns! that shows how western civ has this idea of ''this place that place'' like the world is asimple childs game!

Posted by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Sep 18, 2009 at 7:06 pm

According to scientists and The Economist the Sun spot activity has gone, this means we are beginning the next mini Ice Age, temperatures will fall for many many years to come.

This 200+yrs cooling cycle gives us plenty of time to use up fossil fuels and replace them with nuclear etc.

Enjoy the last of warm weather for a long, long time

Posted by neighbor, a resident of another community, on Sep 18, 2009 at 7:28 pm

Get a grip. Develop some patience. Stop whining for heaven's sake. Golly...who would WANT to work in Palo Alto, where you could be fired for hot weather?

Palo Alto, California is not equatorial -- look at a globe or a climate map. Even with climate change...OUR average Sept. temperatures over the years haven't changed very much here (yet).

Your kids will make it for a few days without air conditioning. Never had it in my LA schools, and I've seen a LOT of hot California Septembers.

Don't even think about traveling abroad in the summer...they have no A/C in unless you stay at an American chain hotel.

Posted by heat wave?, a resident of the St. Claire Gardens neighborhood, on Sep 23, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Sharon is right. Sunspots and radiation effects on the earth are one of several growing explanations for the cyclical nature of our earth's climate. No "climate change" models take into account this latest data, nor the place of our earth in the cycle around the sun, nor the tilt of the earth as it slowly shifts. Don't think SUVs and factories have too much to do with those things, do you?

For all who jump on the "global warming and we are all going to die if we don't DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW" bandwagon, wanting to lower the quality of life for millions of lives here and across the globe for a cap and trade bill based on non-scientific climate models that have been disproven....

please explain why the heat wave didn't materialize,then please explain why we should risk so much economic well-being and loss of yet more liberty on a non-problem.

BTW, I predict a ferocious heat wave sometime in October...always happens so far in the last 15 years I have noticed it...