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Date: July 05, 2024 at 18:57:00
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: it's cookin'!!! |
URL: https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/palm-springs-record-high-temperature-19556949.php |
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Palm Springs breaks all-time record high temperature amidst Calif. heat wave
By Amy Graff, Kendra SmithUpdated July 5, 2024 4:26 p.m.
LATEST July 5, 4:09 p.m. Palm Springs’ record high temperature of 123 degrees was broken Friday, the National Weather Service confirmed over the phone to SFGATE. Though the organization won’t officially record it as a record-breaking temperature until 5 p.m. Friday, the temperature reading taken at 3:53 p.m., which represents the hourly high, showed a temperature of 124 degrees, the organization said.
July 5, 3:21 p.m. California’s historic heat wave could topple a Palm Springs temperature record Friday.
The popular travel destination in Southern California’s Mojave Desert measured a high of 123 degrees just before 2 p.m. Friday, tying the city’s record-high temperature, Miguel Miller, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, told SFGATE.
“It doesn’t feel good outside,” Miller said. He added that the relative humidity is only 5%. “It’s a dry heat,” he said.
Palm Springs International Airport has hit 123 in four other instances — June 17, 2021; July 28 and 29, 1995; and Aug. 1, 1993 — with records going back to 1926.
Miller said it’s “probably a little more likely than not” that the gauge will hit 124 later in the afternoon. He said the office won’t officially call it until 5 p.m.
“Since we’re only at 2 in the afternoon, I’d say, yeah, it could push to 124, although there is a southerly breeze coming in from that more humid area around the Salton Sea, and that may cap the temperature where it’s at.”
Miller said over the past several days during the heat wave, the highest temperatures have been recorded at 3 or 4 p.m.
The weather service takes the temperature every five minutes at the gauge and then takes an average to report the high every hour. The hourly highs are used to determine records, Miller explained.
California has seen simmering temperatures since the start of the week amid a marathon heat wave. A robust ridge of high pressure has stalled over the West Coast and is bringing the heat. “The upper high ridge that’s creating all this hot air and pushing it down and compressing it and making it all hot is extra strong,” Miller said. “It’s not moving anywhere.”
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Date: July 08, 2024 at 21:28:05
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: it's cookin'!!! |
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it felt like stepping into a hot oven...fires now
starting to happen, smokey outside....oye
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Date: July 06, 2024 at 08:22:42
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: it's cookin'!!! |
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and it did hit 124F. At that time, it was the same temp
as Furnace Creek in Death Valley.
was checking on other temps in the area yesterday
afternoon. It was 94F here. Bakersfield was 108F, Mojave
was 114 at the same time.
After looking at the other temps, I shup and stopped
whining about the 94F lol.
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Date: July 06, 2024 at 17:12:07
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: it's cookin'!!! |
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96 on my porch this afternoon...hottest it's been in my time here...been right around 90 all week...5+/- miles inland...
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Date: July 06, 2024 at 20:04:25
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: it's cookin'!!! |
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yeah, it got up to 102F here, 4300 feet up.
And we were a cool spot relative to the areas east of us
in the mojave desert, and west of us in the central
valley.
Weather forecast doesn't give much relief over the next
week, either.
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