Rising temperatures are expected to crank up even more in the Bay Area as meteorologists closely monitor increasing “widespread moderate to major heat risk ” that’s forecast to stifle the region early this week.
The National Weather Service is issuing a heat advisory starting at 11 a.m on Monday, which will remain in effect until 11 p.m. on Wednesday as temperatures soar to the mid-100s throughout inland portions of the Bay Area, while parts of San Francisco could climb to the mid-90s. It’s forecast to be the hottest weather recorded during the first week of October in San Francisco and Oakland in at least two years, Crystal Oudit, a meteorologist for the weather service’s Bay Area office, confirmed with SFGATE, describing it a “small heat wave.”
“It is a little weird,” Oudit said over the phone, “because the end of September is when temperatures tend to ease up.”…