Town’s restaurants close during record heat

The weather dealt La Conner another bad hand last weekend, three of a kind of daily highs over 90 degrees Saturday-Monday, recorded at the WSU Extension Research Center on Memorial Highway. These may be record high temperatures for Friday through Tuesday in the region. The National Weather Service issued a “Long-Duration, Record-Breaking Heat Event” from its Seattle office June 23 for Friday through Monday and then Monday night extended it until 11 p.m. Tuesday.

Tuesday’s forecast at the Burlington airport was sunny, with a high near 89 degrees.

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