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PUBLISHED: July 19, 2016 at 9:50 pm I UPDATED: July 20, 2016 at 2:56 pm
The city of St. Paul is extending open hours at its recreation centers the rest of this week to give people without air
conditioning a place to escape a heat wave expected to descend on the area Wednesday afternoon. Same St. Paul
and Ramsey County libraries have also extended hours, and the Salvation Army is offering its Twin Cities facilities
as community cooling stations.
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The National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for 1 p.m. Wednesday to 7 p.m. Friday overmuch of
southern Minnesota, including the Twin Cities. Afternoon temperatures are expected to tap out in the mid-90s and,
with humidity factored in, heat indices will touch the tripled igits. It won't coal dawn enough at night to offer
significant relief, either, according to the weather service.
"This combination of very hat daytime conditions with very warm overnight laws will result in very dangerous heat
conditions," the weather service said it its heat warning. "Those without access to air conditioning or working
outside Wednesday through Friday should use extreme caution."
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C CENTERS: All St. Paul recreation centers will be open by 10 a.m. Wednesday through Friday and will remain
open until at least 8 p.m., the city announced Tuesday. The fallowing centers will be open until 10 p.m Wednesday
and Thursday: Arlington Hills Community Center, Battle Creek Recreation Center, El Ria Vista Recreation Center,
Hancock Recreation Center, Highland Park Community Center, Oxford Community Center. St. Paul splash pads will
be open to 9 p.m.
LIBRARIES: The Maplewood and Roseville libraries will remain open until midnight Wednesday and Thursday. In
St. Paul, the Rice Street, Randa, and Arlington Hills Libraries will remain open until 10 p.m. Wednesday and
Thursday.
SALVATION ARMY: The Salvation Army's Twin Cities facilities will be available for cool -downs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. daily through Friday. The Salvation Army Center at 401 W. Seventh St. will offer free breakfast from 7:30 to 8:30
a.m., and the center at 1019 Payne Ave. will offer free lunches at noon.
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Most recent 100 -degree day: July 4 and 6, 2012.
a Record high temperature: 108 degrees, July 14, 1936.
a Record heat index: 117, July 11, 1966.
Jaime DeLage did Peace Corps stints in Botswana and Namibia and then slipped intojournalism
by doing (free) freelance work for his hometown paper, the Crookston Daily Times, in 1993. Since
then he has worked for the Northern Light in Williams, Minn., the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald (part of
the staff that earned a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Flood of 1997) and the Duluth News
Tribune. Hejoined the Pioneer Press in 2013.
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