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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.
“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 record high temperature at the National Weather Service office in San Diego of 111 °F (44 °C) was on September 26, 1963. The record low temperature was 25 °F (−4 °C) on January 7, 1913. [8] The record high temperature was tied only once and happened on September 27, 2010, 47 years and two days after the set record.
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).
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.
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 ...
The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972.
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