CountyofSantaBarbara
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued Excessive Heat Warnings and a Fire Weather Watch for parts of Santa Barbara County for July 2-8. Detailed weather forecasts are available at https://www.weather.gov/lox/.
Significantly hot temperatures will be felt throughout Santa Barbara County this week (July 2-8), especially in the Cuyama and Santa Ynez Valleys and interior mountain areas. Temperatures in some areas are forecast to exceed 100 degrees!
Community Cooling Relief
In addition to community-based cooling options such as malls, movie theaters, parks, and beaches, the following locations are available to the public to seek relief from the excessive heat. This list will be updated on www.ReadySBC.org if more locations are made available.
Cuyama Valley
- Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center
- Address: 4689 Highway 166, New Cuyama, CA, 93254
- Phone Number: (805) 345-1961
- Hours of Operations:
- Wednesday, July 3: 10am-6pm
- Thursday, July 4: Noon-6pm
- Friday, July 5: 10am-6pm
- Saturday, July 6: Noon-6pm
- Sunday, July 7: Noon-6pm
- The Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center is air conditioned (AC)
- Both service animals and non-service animal pets are welcome at this site.
- Joseph Centeno Aquatics Center (Cuyama)
- Address: 290 Wasioja Street, New Cuyama, CA, 93254
- Phone Number: (805) 729-7508
- Hours of Operations:
- Wednesday, July 3: 1pm-5:30pm
- Thursday, July 4: Noon-5pm
- Friday, July 5: 1pm-6:15pm
- Saturday, July 6: 1pm-6:15pm
- Sunday, July 7: 1pm-6:15pm
- Service animals are welcome, however non-service animals that are pets are not allowed at this site.
Santa Ynez Valley
- Solvang Library
- Address: 1745 Mission Drive, Solvang, CA, 93463
- Phone Number: (805) 688-4214
- Hours of Operations:
- Tuesdays and Fridays: 10am-5pm
- Wednesdays and Thursdays: 10am-7pm (NOTE: The Solvang Library will be closed Thursday, July 4 for the holiday and will reopen Friday, July 5)
- Saturdays: 10am-4pm
- Sundays and Mondays: Closed
- The Solvang Library has air conditioning (AC)
- Service animals are welcome, however non-service animals that are pets are not allowed at this site.
- Buellton Library
- Address: 140 West Highway 246, Buellton, CA, 93427
- Phone Number: (805) 688-3115
- Hours of Operations:
- Mondays and Tuesdays: 10am-7pm
- Wednesdays: 10am-5pm
- Fridays and Saturdays: 11am-4pm
- Sundays and Thursdays: Closed
- The Buellton Library has air conditioning (AC)
- Service animals are welcome, however non-service animals that are pets are not allowed at this site.
- Santa Ynez Library
- Address: 3598 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez, CA, 93460
- Phone Number: (805) 688-4214 (Solvang Library Branch)
- Hours of Operations:
- Saturdays: 1pm-4pm
- Service animals are welcome, however non-service animals that are pets are not allowed at this site.
- Los Olivos Library
- Address: 2374 Alamo Pintado Avenue, Los Olivos, CA, 93441
- Phone Number: (805) 688-4214 (Solvang Library Branch)
- Hours of Operations:
- Saturdays: 10am-1pm
- Service animals are welcome, however non-service animals that are pets are not allowed at this site.
South Santa Barbara County
- Goleta Valley Public Library
- Address: 500 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, 93117
- Phone Number: (805) 964-7878
- Hours of Operations:
- Wednesday, July 3: 10am-7pm
- Thursday, July 4: Closed for the 4th of July holiday
- Friday, July 5: 10am-5:30pm
- Saturday, July 6: 10am-5:30pm
- Sunday, July 7: 1pm-5pm
- The Goleta Valley Public Library has air conditioning (AC)
- Service animals are welcome, however non-service animals that are pets are not allowed at this site.
Paratransit Resources
If you are an individual who has a disability or other access or functional need (AFN), and require transportation to a community cooling relief location, contact a paratransit provider near you:
- Easy Lift Santa Barbara | Phone: 805-681-1181
- SMOOTH Santa Maria | Phone: 805-922-8476
- Santa Ynez Valley Transit Dial-A-Ride | Phone: 805-688-5452
- COLT Lompoc ADA Curb-to-Curb | Phone: 805-736-7666
Heat Precautions and Tips
Here are some precautions and tips to stay cool when it’s hot outside:
- Drink plenty of cool, non-alcoholic beverages, especially those without sugar or caffeine. Do not wait until you are thirsty to drink. If you have fluid restrictions from your doctor, ask to see how much you should drink while the weather is hot.
- Take care of those who might not be aware of high temperature dangers or be able to react accordingly – especially the elderly, young children, and pets. Check on your neighbors.
- Limit outdoor activity. Try to schedule outdoor activities during the cooler parts of the day, like morning and evening hours. Be sure to wear sunscreen and rest often.
- For those who work outside, be sure to take frequent rest breaks in a shaded area or air-conditioned room, if possible. Stay hydrated and take action by moving to a cooler space if you feel signs of heat exhaustion.
- Take regular breaks in the shade or in an air-conditioned room. A few hours in air conditioning can help your body stay cooler. Taking a cool shower or bath can help too.
- If you do not have air‐conditioning, consider arranging to spend at least parts of the day at another space that is cool. Electric fans may provide comfort, but when the temperature is in the high 90s, they will not prevent heat-related illness.
- Wear appropriate clothing. Lightweight, light-colored, loose-fitting clothing works best.
- Know the signs of heat exhaustion. If someone becomes dizzy, nauseated, or sweats heavily, find a cooler location for him or her immediately.
- Know the signs of heat stroke. Heat stroke is much more serious than heat exhaustion. The symptoms are similar to heat exhaustion, but also include hot, flushed skin. With heat stroke, the person often stops sweating and the skin will be unusually dry. If heat stroke is a possibility, call 911 immediately. Heat stroke is life threatening!
- Do not leave children (and pets) unattended in vehicles. It only takes a matter of minutes on a relatively mild day for a vehicle to reach deadly temperatures.
Be thankful if you’re along the coast. The marine layer is hanging in there and cooling it down.
The rest of Santa Barbara County (to which the excessive heat warning applies) is roasting,
and it will be even hotter in the coming week.
The weather channel states highs in the seventies next 5 days. Temp now 59 degrees 9a on the 4th. How do you explain the vast differences?
Once again, our rube weatherman prognosticates.
Just wait, you’ll find out. Be sure to hydrate, but those alcoholic beverages ore off limits.
NWS (the National Weather Service, the guys with the cool equipment) forecast 95 on the SB side of the mountains tomorrow, 94 Saturday:
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Santa+Barbara&state=CA&site=LOX&textField1=34.4208&textField2=-119.697&e=0
They forecast 100 for zip code 93105:
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=34.4422&lon=-119.7361
Micro climates, distance from the ocean, and where the weather station is located. This has always been the case on the central coast.
Shit, this ain’t even close to hot.
Although physicians would warn you to take precautions.
And realize that everyone reacts differently to high temperatures.
Weather Channel uses SBA which is City of SB and right next to the water.
The Weather Channel likes to use Airports because they have a lot of cool weather gear
It is 64 there at SBA now, and 79 at the Botanic Gardens, 71 behind the Riviera. If you forecast dangerous heat, better to be high than low, better to lean towards the hotter of the microclimates
When I lived within the city limits up in the hills, it could be RED FLAG Fire Warning high 90’s or 100+ degrees with single digit humidity and offshore wind gusts of 40mph. It would be would be mid 70’s 40% humidity and a light onshore breeze at the beach.
In the 1970’s there was a fire in the hills, fog at the beach. Two totally different worlds less than 2.5 miles away as the crow flies
The heat map show purple for all of Santa Barbara, right down to the water. In the meantime high temp tomorrow (Fri) is forecast to be 79 degrees. Not that unusual for SB this time of the year.
We realize you’re just attempting to cast FUD on climate science with all this nonsense, but you should really learn the difference between weather and climate, or you’ll continue to sound like a clown.
From the NWS
“special emphasis along the Central Coast down to southern
Santa Barbara County where highs could reach near 100 away from
the IMMEDIATE coast”
I capitalized IMMEDIATE . I don’t fault the NWS mapping tool for not being able to delineate a 1-2 miles wide strip at that 1″ = 50 miles scale.
I know a meteorologist who used to be the local weatherman on a TV station in Buffalo, NY where lake effect snow forecast is often hard to quantify. He told me that when he was hired, his station manager took him aside and said “no one ever gets fired for being high on the snow forecast numbers – you go low and everyone who goes out and has a heart attack while shoveling snow is going to be blamed on you”
If their map can’t accurately depict the most populous areas it shouldn’t be used.
Increase the power of your reading glasses. I looked at that map a couple of days ago and could see a strip of white at the immediate coast.
Just use the reporting sites on Wundermap to see the temps. We all know different areas have different temps, we get it. I only got up to 93 today, which is nice, a relief.
https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap
It’s summertime.
Implying, in a FUDdy way, that 100 degree temperatures are somehow normal here.
I have been here 50+ years. Yes. 100 degree temps in the summertime are an occasion summertime norm. It comes in waves.
100 degree heat has been rare here, and of short duration, until recently..