Hot Diggity Dog, It's Gonna Be Humid

An excessive heat warning is expected to persist through Tuesday night for much of Southern California. Coastal Long Beach? Not so much. At 69 degrees just after midnight Tuesday in the 90803 zip code, the coast was cool.

But the humidity was 85% early Tuesday morning in Belmont Shore and Naples, leaving a tropical feeling in the air.

When the temperature has spiked to 129 degrees in Death Valley, as it did Sunday, and hovered at 128 Monday, Tuesday's forecast for coastal Long Beach seems chilly.

Fog is expected to cloak the coast in patches until at least  noon Tuesday, the National Weather Service predicted. "Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

"Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 66. West wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.

As a days-long heat wave persisted, the biggest weather buzz into the pre-dawn hours was about how Death Valley's 129 degrees -  the hottest June temperature ever recorded in the country. The Los Angeles Times reported that the record beat the previously hottest temp registered last summer at one-degree less (than the 129 temp.)
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-death-valley-continues-to-broiler-after-breaking-record-...

Read more on beating-the-heat tips.

http://belmontshore.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/baking-in-the-lbc-weather-tips