‘We are looking at the potential for record heat’

Near-record temperatures forecast for the week

MOSES LAKE — It being July and North Central Washington being desert country, it’s to be expected that it’s going to be hot sooner or later. And it will be hot, darned hot, although temperatures are forecast to moderate at least a little bit by the weekend. Steven Van Horn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Spokane, said the Moses Lake and Wenatchee areas will be the first to experience the hottest temperatures, but it will get hot region-wide. “There’s a very high heat risk for the central and north central parts of the state,” Van Horn said.