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East Los Angeles, the Gateway Cities, and parts of the San Gabriel Valley average the warmest winter high temps (72 °F, 22 °C) in all of the western U.S., and Santa Monica averages the warmest winter lows (52 °F, 11 °C) in all of the western U.S. Palm Springs, a city in the Coachella Valley, averages high/low/mean temperatures of 75 °F/50 ...
Climate change in California has resulted in higher than average temperatures, leading to increased occurrences of droughts and wildfires. [3] Over the next few decades in California , climate change is predicted to further reduce water availability, increase wildfire risk, decrease agricultural productivity , and threaten coastal ecosystems. [ 4 ]
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).
California has been at the epicenter of the extreme heat. Palm Springs soared to 117 degrees on Tuesday and tied the all-time highest October temperature on record for the entire US.
With the possibility of a warm atmospheric river hitting California this month, officials now worry about preserving precious Sierra snowpack. Yet more rain expected to hit California in March ...
The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center expects above-average temperatures to persist through at least mid-October across California, with much of the West forecast to remain warm ...
Essentially, the mountain ranges separate southern California into two distinct climatic regions: The heavy-populated coastal area west of these mountains is the one most associated with the term "southern California" and is characterized by pleasant weather all-year round, without frequent heat spells in the summer and without low temperatures ...
The month of March has seen 90-degree temperatures in Sacramento before — once in 1966 and once in 1988. Those temperatures were measured downtown, where the urban landscape tends to be hotter.