It was an interesting day today in the Coachella Valley. Wide spread sprinkles, not enough to measure, humidity increasing, and cloud cover. With that, Palm Springs officially reached a high of 94. Resulting in a record for the lowest maximum temperature for the day…

RECORD REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
930 PM PDT TUE JUL [...]

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On this day in…
1998: It was 123° at Thermal, 119° at Borrego Springs and 118° at Palm Springs.
1995: A heat wave started on this day and ended on 7.29. It was 123° at Palm Springs on 7.28 and on 7.29. On this day it was 120° in Coachella, 113° in San Jacinto, 112° in Riverside, [...]

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Here are some photos I took, and a corresponding radar image at the height of its intensity, from last night’s late evening pop up thunderstorm north of I-10 between Thousand Palms and Indio. Check out the photo gallery for the whole collection

Composite radar image at 11:05pm 7/25/07

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