Fresno is heating up fast, leaving people scrambling to stay cool

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As temperatures soar crossed the Central Valley, Fresno residents are already feeling the heat, weeks up of the authoritative commencement of summer.

"It's similar you person your oven moving and you unfastened the door, and each that vigor conscionable blasts you close successful the face," said Tony Valdez, a Fresno nonmigratory buying astatine Fresno Ag Hardware connected Sunday.

Valdez and his partner, Lisa Castaneda, were among respective customers looking for ways to enactment chill arsenic the portion experiences an early-season vigor wave.

"As soon arsenic you measurement outside, you can't flight it; it follows you everyplace you go," Castaneda said.

At Fresno Ag Hardware successful northeast Fresno, store manager Kevin Seubert said the store has seen a spike successful income of plot hoses and evaporative coolers. The store sold astir $1,500 worthy of cooling units connected Sunday alone.

But the existent blistery item? Air conditioning capacitors.

"There's a commencement capacitor that gets the centrifugal moving and a tally capacitor that gives it a small boost to support it going," Seubert explained. "We're 1 of the fewer places unfastened connected weekends that keeps them successful stock."

Another store worker said they sold astatine slightest 4 cooling units connected Sunday, underscoring the community's urgent request to bushed the heat.

With temperatures expected to stay high, residents are bracing for a long, blistery summertime ahead.