The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has announced Thursday will be the fourth straight day a Spare the Air alert is in effect in the region due to hot weather and weak winds that will combine with motor vehicle exhaust to create unhealthy levels of smog.

Temperatures that were expected to peak Wednesday at about 110 degrees in some inland Bay Area locations will be slightly lower Thursday but still around 100 degrees in the hottest spots, according to the National Weather Service.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.