WEATHER: Heat exhaustion possible

the high heat quickly dries excess sweat and the first warning sign of heat exhaustion, a headache, can be ignored.

“This really can be dangerous to you,” he said. “Kids are just out for summer, and they want to go outside and they don’t realize they can get heat exhaustion very quickly.”

Rice said he recommends staying indoors, but if you’re outside to wear sunscreen and a hat. He said it takes a few weeks for a person’s body to acclimate to heat, but due to the drastic rise in temperatures, people are more susceptible to heat exhaustion in the coming days.

“The thing that is most obvious is when you stop sweating,” Rice said. “When you have a headache and get lightheaded and you stop sweating, what’s happening is your internal temperature is rising. Your brain can only take so much heat.”

Chuck Smith, the Sutter County public information officer, said if residents stay hydrated and stay in air conditioned areas, the high heat won’t pose a serious threat.

“It’s going to be a moderate heat level in terms of danger,” Smith said.

He said Sutter County emergency officials are also monitoring temperatures, but the nighttime lows do not meet the criteria to open relief centers.

Hannah Chandler, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento, said the heat wave doesn’t necessarily mean the Yuba-Sutter area is in for a summer-long swelter.

“We still have the weather fluctuations like we’ve been having where we’ll be hot and then cool down later,” Chandler said. “Currently, we’re under a high pressure system that’s going to stick around for a long time, and that’s why we have extended hot weather.”