El Paso, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso residents are relieved to have slightly cooler temperatures this weekend, even though they have yet to see below one hundred degrees for 38 days.
“Being out for the last hour … I love it,” Pasoan Andrew Lara told ABC-7 as he strolled through San Jacinto Square in downtown El Paso. “The cloud cover is great. It’s not too hot. I’m just mostly outside. So it’s pretty cool now compared to the last few weeks.”
Lara, like many others in El Paso, has been bothered by the high temperatures of the past month.
“I like to go for a run … around 1:00 or 2:00, so that’s stopped me from going. So I’ve been doing everything in the morning and I can’t take my dogs out, it’s too hot for them,” she said.
For others, the consequences of the heat were more severe.
“Wednesday our power went out for a couple of hours and that was the worst. We have dogs so they could even feel the stress. They were panting, they were hot. It wasn’t good at all,” said Toni Bustamante of El Paso.
Although the Sun City was a few degrees cooler over the weekend, the triple-digit heat wave still lingered Sunday after reaching 100 degrees around 4 p.m., which are still potentially dangerous temperatures.
“My best advice for El Paso is to always bring something you can cover up,” said El Pasoan Louis Vasquez. “Always stay hydrated…so you can keep going.”
