Tiburon attracts visitors near and far to beat the heat wave

Friends and families flocked to the picnic areas at Paradise Beach Park on July 4 to celebrate the holiday, enjoy the warm weather and take advantage of the shade and bay breeze that kept the Tiburon Peninsula cooler as a heat wave scorched inland areas. (Ted McDonnell / For The Ark)

After some relief over the weekend, warmer weather is expected to return to the Tiburon Peninsula this week, with a high of 81 degrees predicted for today, July 10, and 85 tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service.

Tiburon’s cooler climate and coastal breezes attracted residents from across the Bay Area last week as a statewide heat wave brought excessive-heat warnings and record-setting inland temperatures from the upper 90s into the 110s.

The weather service’s warning started July 1 and has since been downgraded to a heat advisory through 8 p.m. July 12, but locally, temperatures had remained in the 70s for most of each day, typically peaking in the low 80s with a high of 86 degrees about 2 p.m. July 2, according to personal weather systems tracked by Weather Underground.

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