Weather related discussions for the Coachella Valley and surrounding areas
July 31
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…
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July 27
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, [...]
July 26
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
July 26
July through mid-September brings Thunderstorms here in Southern California from time to time and with that here’s an interesting fact…
At any given time, there are nearly 2,000 thunderstorms occurring over the planet.
The U.S. has over 100,000 thunderstorms annually. The estimated number of global thunderstorms in a single year is about 16 million.
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