Fresno cooling down is good for Southwest Airlines (and their exploding soda cans)

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno’s existent tally of triple-digit vigor is adjacent to ending with a cool-down forecast for the extremity of this week. It is bully quality for anyone increasing weary of the warmth, which could see Southwest Airlines unit opening cans of soda mid-flight.

Southwest Airlines, which operates nonstop links from Fresno to Denver, Las Vegas and Dallas, has been dealing with exploding cans of soda. The Washington Post reports that astatine slightest 20 Southwest Airlines formation attendants person been injured this summertime by soda cans that exploded arsenic they were opening them.

Southwest Airlines does not service perishable food, meaning cans of soda are enduring triple-digit vigor earlier they are loaded onto the plane. According to YourCentralValley.com’s sister presumption YourErie.com, soda cans are liable to detonate if they get excessively hot. Figures from the National Weather Service amusement temperatures astatine Fresno Yosemite International Airport successful the triple-digits each time this week, with a precocious of 110 degrees Fahrenheit registered connected Tuesday.

In a connection to YourCentralValley.com, Southwest says the hose is alert of the contented and has been taking steps to support onboard beverages cooler, particularly astatine airports experiencing utmost temperatures.

Airports wherever we person a ample beingness – specified arsenic Las Vegas, Phoenix and galore successful Texas – proceed to person grounds temperatures, with terrible vigor arriving earlier and persisting passim the summer. For the Safety of our Employees and Customers, we are taking acquisition and mitigation measures connected each heat-related hazards.

Southwest Airlines started flights from Fresno successful April 2021 and is adjacent celebrating its Fresno routes with a nationalist contention to triumph a travel to the Central Valley.