Kansas City-area cooling centers open; here’s where to go

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On Monday, it got all the way up to 100 degrees in the late afternoon. And it’s going to be miserably hot for a few days. It bears repeating each year when it gets this unbearable that the heat can freaking kill you if you’re not careful. Last summer 40 people in Missouri and 62 people in Kansas died from heat-related causes.

Kansas City-area cooling centers are now open. If you don’t have air conditioning, go hang out someplace that does. Playing checkers with strangers in an air-conditioned senior center is always preferable to heat stroke. The locations and hours are listed after the jump. Here’s a searchable map of all the centers. And check out Jackson County’s tips for avoiding heat-related health problems.

Just remember, the Crown Center fountains are no longer a cooling center.