It might feel like a typical spring day today, but that won't last long! Record high temperatures are expected in the Bay Area this week, with some spots hitting the low 90s.

According to Mark Strudley, a meterologist with the National Weather Service, who spoke with the Chron, by Tuesday temperatures in Livermore, Antioch, Santa Rosa, and San Jose will hit the mid 80s.

By Wednesday, KRON 4 reports, the East and South Bays should expect temperatures in the 90s, a record for this time of year, Strudley says.

San Francisco will also be hot on Wednesday, with temperatures in the 80s, Strudley says. I advise you to start planting "I think I'm coming down with something" seeds at work today and tomorrow, so when you call in sick on Wednesday it has that extra air of veracity.

And call in sick you should, as Wednesday will be the single hot day this week, Strudley says. Temperatures will sharply drop on Thursday, and by Friday there might even be rain. So gather ye hooky-playing rosebuds while ye may!

Wednesday was super hot, with record-breaking temperatures across the Bay Area, and the hottest weather in San Francisco in over five years, according to the National Weather Service (and my armpits).

In an attempt to cool down yesterday, I went to China Beach, which was a stupid idea because a) packs of poorly-supervised kids made me super anxious by playing in the dangerous surf and b) going out in the sun was even hotter than sitting in my stuffy apartment. The scene from my towel:

Thank god the staffers of the SF Zoo are smarter than I am! As opposed to cooling their animals off by lying them on a towel under the punishing sun (my not-so-brilliant plan), they made an ice bath for their otters, and hit their ostriches with the hose, as you can see in the video below.

Look out you guys, that ostrich looks PISSED.

Related: Weather Report: Another Hot One, But Cooler Days Ahead

In case you are somehow oblivious to air temperature: it's hot today. Like sweaty keyboard hot. And while there's a gentle breeze keeping things from becoming simply unbearable (read: 83 degrees), that breeze may turn into a stagnant, lung-clogging, smog-filled stillness come tomorrow. So, to preserve your tender bronchioles and alveoli, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has declared Saturday, September 7th an official Spare the Air day.

We've already cracked the 80-degree threshold for Friday and forecasted temperatures, which are never really reliable in the city anyway, are expected to hit the upper 70s tomorrow as well. Those warm temperatures, combined with low winds mean vehicle exhaust will be especially suffocating over the weekend. Or maybe we'll just end up with a nice warm Saturday night.

Anyhow, the BAAQMD recommends you avoid trying to get around (or out of) the city via internal combustion engine and instead opt for public transit, a bicycle or your own two feet. (Caution: these modes of transit have been known to produce an undesirable byproduct known as "sweat.")

That said, now would be as good a time as any to give Bay Area Bike Share a spin.

Via the editor's inbox, we received the following setup:

How hot is it? Wakka wakka.

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Don't forget to check out Persephone's Bees, The Duke Spirit, The Tings Tings and Hot Tub, tonight at Rickshaw Stop. It's going to be an awesome night of music. The concert starts at 8pm and tickets are $15.

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Wednesday night is when things get real exciting. Division Day, who released their debut album, Beartrap Island on Eenie Meenie Records (Scissors for Lefty, Wallpaper, Great Northern) at the end of last year is back in San Francisco. We consistently have loved everything that Eenie Meenie Records has put out, including Division Day. They will be supported by A-Sides, an indie-rock band from Philadelphia. It should be a great show!

The Hands (pictured to the right) are a straight-up rock band from Seattle, Washington. We wanted to recommend The Hands, playing over at Kimo's in Nob Hill on Friday night, but when we googled Kimo's (to find out more information about the venue), we realized that Kimo's didn't even have a website. This is 2008, right? We checked out reviews on yelp and boy we're we surprised. Kimo's was reviewed as being "dirty and disgusting" with the "worst sound ever." Ouch. There weren't too many favorable reviews posted. (Kimo's rating is a crappy two out of five stars.) For a band who is playing SXSW later this month, we're a bit surprised they aren't playing Bottom of the Hill or Slim's. We're wondering, is it really worth going to Kimo's? From what we've read, we're a bit worried. What do you think?

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Image credit: Michelle Malkin