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Over the last decade, thermometers in that neighborhood have climbed to 110 degrees or hotter at least two dozen times.

Not when a summer heat wave threatens to drive the thermometer up to 119, and the civic conversation turns to the desperate need for cooling centers.

“I don’t want my bare feet on that,” says ranger Anna Marini as she shows her thermometer gun reading to a couple visiting from Switzerland, who are appropriately awed.

Tuesday, saying conditions would be dangerously hot, with the thermometer expected to reach 110 degrees.

The thermometer read 95 degrees but down on the beach volleyball court, with all that gleaming white sand, it felt like 102.