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BOB MAINDELLE: Rapidly falling water temperature requires adjustment | Outdoor Sports
Since the strong line of storms that tore through Central Texas on Veterans Day, we have not had even a single hour of time where the air temperature has been warmer than the water temperature on the surface of our two local lakes. This has led to a rapid cooling of Belton and Stillhouse Hollow lakes. Before going into this weekend, the surface temperature on both bodies of water hovered near 60 degrees, a temperature we normally do not fall to until the second or third week of December. In some years, we have not reached a 60 surface temperature until after New Year’s Day. Although decreasing water temperatures are…
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Schools in high temperature areas warned to cancel outdoor activities
Schools in high temperature areas warned to cancel outdoor activities | EdSource Education Beat Podcast — Can we axe remedial classes? — Listen Now! The California Department of Public Health issued guidance to schools Tuesday cautioning them to cancel all outdoor and un-air-conditioned indoor sports if temperatures in their region put them at levels of high or very high risk, according to the National Weather Service HeatRisk forecast. Today a third of the state is at the very high-risk level of the forecast, with a small portion in the high-risk level. Schools in these areas should cancel outdoor activities during the heat…
