He's OK; Death Valley is an almost 500 mile drive from his home in Napa; CA is a huge state and has many climate zones and Napa is way up to the North of San Francisco; the area there is seeing some very unusual high temperatures in the 90s F, when the norm is around the 70s this time of year; here in the Southern CA area, we are seeing temps in the mid-90s and low 100s; I just saw a weather report saying the nearby city of Lancaster recorded a Monday high of 111 degrees, and that is not a desert area; suffice to say it has been a bit 'toasty' of late and the trend is expected to continue for several more days; the worst part here in SoCal is we have a combination of very high heat, high humidity, and bad air quality caused by smoke from various brush and wildfires in the area, the resulting inversion layer making the air a bit stifling with or without a face mask...
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