It's back – excessive heat warning through weekend

SPOKANE COUNTY — After a brief respite of cooler air, hot, above-average temperatures are slated to return to the area later this week and over the weekend.

The forecast has led to another excessive heat advisory to be issued by the National Weather Service from now through Aug. 15. It’s the fifth excessive heat advisory issued so far this summer.

“This will really begin to dry things out and re-energize the local fires and others in the west including those over British Columbia,” weather officials wrote on their website.

A low pressure trough delivering slightly cooler or near normal tempera...