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“Dangerously hot temperatures will be common across many valley, mountain, and inland areas,” the National Weather Service in Los Angeles warned Thursday, underscoring the heat’s wide reach.
The National Weather Service in the Bay Area is warning of temperatures that could cause heat illnesses — up to to 104 degrees in the North Bay and East Bay mountains and valleys through Wednesday.
After days of record-breaking temperatures, California's October heat wave is beginning to retreat. A cooling trend is expected to begin Tuesday through the rest of the week.
The Santa Anas are katabatic winds (Greek for "flowing downhill") arising in higher altitudes and blowing down towards sea level. [7] The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as "a weather condition [in southern California] in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions".
Golden Gate Bridge in fog Snow in the mountains of Southern California Summer in the Sierra Nevada at Lake Tahoe High precipitation in 2005 caused an ephemeral lake in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley. The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast.
This marks October as fire season for San Diego and the rest of Southern California due to low precipitation and sporadic heat waves that the average monthly temperatures do not immediately show. For example, the months with the highest record high temperatures are September at 111 °F (44 °C) and October at 107 °F (42 °C). [4]
California, too, notched several daily heat records, according to the National Weather Service. A high of 106 degrees was recorded in San Jose, smashing the previous record of 96 degrees in both ...
Summers are warm to hot, and nearly completely dry. The summer temperature pattern usually begins in late June or early July, and lasts through September or October, although it may start as early as late May. In August, the average high/low at the University of Southern California downtown campus are 84.8 °F (29.3 °C) and 65.6 °F (18.7 °C).