Star Tribune: Heat waves, smoke clouds and the battle to breathe easy in Minnesota

By YWCA Minneapolis

July 30, 2021

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“There’s hot yoga, and then there’s too-hot-for yoga.

For a year and a half, the staff of the YWCA Minneapolis worked around and through the pandemic’s threat to public health. When they checked this week’s forecast, they saw more danger ahead.

As the heat index soared toward triple digits, they pulled the plug on Tuesday evening’s free community yoga class in Peavey Plaza, across the street from the downtown Y.”