Have you ever been to Phoenix, Arizona in the summer?\u00a0 It\u2019s about to come to you.<\/p>\n

A heat wave is poised to break records across the Bay Area and much of the rest of California over Labor Day Weekend, starting Saturday and peaking Sunday with temperatures forecast to exceed 110 degrees in some areas.<\/p>\n

In Gilroy, the forecast Sunday is for 112 degrees, the same temperature as is forecast for Phoenix that day, according to the National Weather Service. Livermore and Walnut Creek are expected to see 111 degrees Sunday, with San Jose a relatively balmy 102 \u2014 which would break the record of 100 set in 1923 \u2014 and Oakland expected to hit 95, which would tie a record set in 1979.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese should be the hottest temperatures of the year so far,\u201d said David King, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Monterey.<\/p>\n

As if the Bay Area needed another headache, the National Weather Service on Friday issued a \u201cfire weather watch\u201d for the East Bay Hills and North Bay Hills for Monday night at 10 p.m. through Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. With low humidity levels, hot, dry winds are forecast to blow toward the ocean from Utah and Nevada, reaching up to 45 mph at higher elevations and spiking fire risk from San Luis Reservoir near Los Banos to Santa Rosa, particularly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It will be the first \u201cfire weather watch\u201d this summer in the Bay Area based on winds. A more severe \u201cred flag warning,\u201d was issued Aug.15 before the freak lightning storms which set off dozens of fires around Northern California. Another was issued Aug. 22 but cancelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now it\u2019s just a watch, but we are going to be keeping our eye on it,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n

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