With the summer heat wave in full swing in southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip — even for a bear.
Police in the city of Burbank responded to a report of a bear sighting in a residential neighborhood and found the animal sitting in a hot tub behind one of the homes.
After a short dip, the bear climbed over a wall and headed to a tree behind the home, police said in a statement on Friday.
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Police released a video of the animal in the neighborhood, which is about 16km north of Los Angeles and near the Verdugo Mountains.
The Burbank police have issued warnings for residents to avoid bears and to keep all garbage and food locked up to discourage bears from coming to their residences.
Meanwhile, the heat wave that has gripped the US southwest throughout the month is to begin abating with the late arrival of monsoon rains.
Forecasters said that today, people in metro Phoenix, Arizona, would begin to see high temperatures fall below 43.3°C for the first time in a month.
On Saturday, the high temperature in the desert city with more than 1.6 million residents climbed past 43.3°C for the 30th straight day, the National Weather Service said.
The previous record stretch of that temperature or higher was 18 days in 1974.
There were increased chances yesterday of cooling monsoon thunderstorms, although wet weather can also bring damaging winds, blowing dust and the chance of flash flooding, the weather service said.
The overnight low at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport fell to below 32.2°C for the first time in 16 days, finally giving residents some respite from the stifling heat once the sun goes down.
Temperatures were also expected to ease in Las Vegas and Death Valley, California, where the weather service said that an expected high of 50°C on Saturday was to fall to 45°C by tomorrow — along with a slight chance of rain.
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