Today, at 3:59pm, marked the arrival of summer.  And we are sure feeling it! 116° in Palm Springs and 118° in thermal!
Records set or tied for Friday the 20th from the National Weather Service:
RECORD REPORT

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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
530 PM PDT FRI JUN 20 2008

…HIGHEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN OR [...]

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First things first… sorry about the lack of posts on the blog lately and the delay in replying to comments and e-mails. I have been quite busy this spring. Hopefully with the “slowdown” of summer I will be able to post more frequently.
An update on traffic, over the past 6 months DesertWeather.com has [...]

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From 112° on Monday to 79° on Friday with a chance of sprinkles? That’s a mistake, no, that is the change we will see this week due to major shift south in the jet stream that will brake down the current, strong, high pressure that has brought us the 17 degrees above normal temperatures we [...]

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Wow, the heat came on strong Monday with the high topping out at 113° in Palm Springs, 112° here @ DesertWeather.com (Thousand Palms). Records were again set for many locations. Below is the official list for records set Monday the 19th.
RECORD REPORT

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RECORD REPORT…UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
530 [...]

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