National Weather Service Hanford

Temperatures will taper down into the 90s this weekend. That’s still toasty, but it’s a slight respite from the first heat wave of the year ahead of summer. Another heat wave will arrive Tuesday.

An excessive heat warning will take effect Saturday morning in the San Joaquin Valley and last through Monday, as an extended heatwave swelters the state.

As the final installment in the Water Whiplash series, a meteorologist who foresaw “unprecedented” and “unparalleled” flooding reflects on the lessons we can draw from our recent wet winter—and how we can prepare for weather extremes in the future.

When Nikiko Masumoto was 9-years-old, she remembers hail pouring down on her family’s organic peach and nectarine farm. It was at the end of June, the…