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Heat Wave to Hit San Diego County

Temperatures are expected to reach the 90s in Poway.

1. A heat wave will strike San Diego County Wednesday, when temperatures will climb into the 90s at the beaches and the 100s in inland areas, forecasters said. Offshore flow and an unusually strong upper level high pressure centered over the coast will produce "very warm temperatures" Wednesday and Thursday, according to a National Weather Service advisory. Temperatures were expected to cool throughout the region Friday, but still be running 5 to 10 degrees above normal for this time of year.

2. Authorities sought Tuesday to determine what prompted an apparent murder-suicide that claimed the lives of the longtime editor of an East County community newspaper and her estranged husband. Deputies checking on the welfare of Judy Winter-Meier, 61, found her body and that of her 59-year-old husband, Jim, in their Borrego Springs home early Monday evening, according to sheriff's officials and the Borrego Sun, the biweekly publication for which Winter-Meier had worked since the mid-1970s.

3. The siren system that would alert Camp Pendleton and neighboring communities in the event of an emergency at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station will undergo annual testing next week, Southern California Edison announced Tuesday. On Oct. 19 between 10 a.m. and noon, 50 sirens located in the communities around the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station—including Dana Point, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano—will be activated several times for about three minutes each time.

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