As we previously reported, the National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for inland East Bay areas and an Excessive Heat Watch for coastal and bayside areas through the Labor Day Weekend.
Temperatures in the inland East Bay are expected to start with high temperatures in Contra Costa and Alameda counties of over 90 degrees and by Monday temperatures are forecasted at 110 degrees in Brentwood, and at least 104 degrees in Concord, Walnut Creek, Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore.
Per the order of the East Bay Regional Park District’s Fire Chief, due to possible high fire risk, the Park District will be closing the following parks/areas beginning Sunday, September 4 thru Monday, September 5:
- Wildcat Canyon
- Tilden
- Botanic Garden
- Sibley
- Huckleberry
- Claremont Canyon
- Reinhardt Redwood
- Leona Canyon
- Anthony Chabot (except Campground)
- Five Canyons
- Lake Chabot
- Kennedy Grove
- Sobrante Ridge
- Sunol
- Ohlone
- Mission Peak
- Vargas Plateau
- Garin/ Dry Creek Pioneer
- Pleasanton Ridge
- Dublin Hills
- Sycamore Valley
- Bishop Ranch
- Las Trampas
- Briones Regional Park
- Crockett Hills
- Black Diamond Mines
- Clayton Ranch
- Contra Loma
- Thurgood Marshall
- Deer Valley
- Round Valley
- Morgan Territory
- Brushy Peak
- Vasco Hills
- Vasco Caves
- Shadow Cliffs
- Waterbird
- Roberts
- Diablo Foothills
- Nejedly Staging Area located in Carquinez Strait
Do not enter closed parks. If you arrive at a park and find that it has been closed, please do not disregard the closure and enter. If you do, in the event of an emergency, police and firefighters may not be able to find and evacuate you.
All shoreline parks will remain open. These include:
- Antioch Oakley Shoreline
- Big Break
- Bay Point
- Martinez/Carquinez (not Crockett Hills)
- Point Pinole
- Miller Knox
- Point Isabel
- McLaughlin East Shore State Park
- Judge John Sutter
- Crown Beach
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Oyster Bay
- Hayward Shoreline
- Coyote Hills
- Ardenwood Historic Farm
- Dumbarton Quarry Campground
The following swim facilities will remain open.
- Lake Temescal
- Castle Rock Pool
- Cull Canyon
- Don Castro
- Quarry Lakes
- Lake Del Valle
What can you do during an Excessive Heat Warning?
- Cancel outdoor activities during the hottest times of the day.
- If you do visit open parks, visit early in the day when it is cooler and bring plenty of water.
- Stay hydrated in a cool place.
- Find places with air conditioning. Libraries, shopping malls, and community centers can provide a cool place to take a break from the heat. Please seek out cooling centers in your area.
- If you’re outside, find shade.
- Wear a hat wide enough to protect your face.
- Wear loose, lightweight, light-colored clothing.
- Drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated.
- Do not use electric fans when the temperature outside is more than 95 degrees. You could increase the risk of heat-related illness. Fans create air flow and a false sense of comfort, but do not reduce body temperature.
- Avoid high-energy activities. Check yourself, family members, and neighbors for signs of heat-related illness.
For the latest forecast updates, visit weather.gov/bayarea
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Smart move to close these parks. Look at the fires in Northern California, Oregon and Idaho.
Gavins answer to fires is shutdown life as you know it. You are the co2 problem. That’s why they call it “man made climate change”. Some of you will understand this sooner than others. But you will all understand soon.
This step is the start of the Climate Lockdowns that will be rolled out in the not so distant future.
Funny how Death Valley and states such as AZ and NM have excessive heat all the time but no Ca agency has ever shut down Death Valley nor those respective states to protect their citizenry from heat strokes, etc.
Makes you wonder what the real motive is, huh?
Also, I guess the State frauds don’t think we adults have enough intelligence or common sense to take care of ourselves.
Not to mention, just like the beaches and parks during the Covid fiasco, now they are shutting down places where people go to enjoy themselves in the once great outdoors before weather modification prograns destroyed our wildlands.
Just sayin’!.
Totally agree. This is a communist move.
There isn’t much enjoyment in hiking or walking in 100+ weather, drive to the beach or by the water somewhere. Death Valley don’t have the same fire danger as around here, not very populated and not a lot of greenery that and dry grass, brush etc. that can catch fire. There are 3 or 4 major fires already burning in California, do we really want to temp fate?
Thank you for obeying pur closure of nature … you are truly obesient citizens … enjoy your holiday weekend in the #METAVERSE … the only place where we can socially engineer you into total subordination … which we are doing freely now, right before your very eyes. welcome to our new ‘new normal.”
This is what COVID HOAX compliance got you. They know exactly how gullible the bay area people are. THIS is why I have called it out the whole time. It’s a shame how 99% of you comply. It’s not hard to see how people willingly got on the trains in germany. People are dumb.
Closing parks and open space is the first step. The next step will be banning driving on 100+ days.
I had to refer to a photo I took (for the date) back on June 21, 2022 where the ground (dirt) measured a temperature reading of 166 degrees F.
Yet, there wasn’t a non-stop media propaganda campaign as we’re seeing regarding this current so called heat wave.
This has gone way beyond the boy crying wolf.
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