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The most California tornadoes on a single day in the state was seven, which occurred on November 9, 1982. [58] In July 2004, a twister touched down in Sequoia National Park at an altitude of around 12,156 ft (3,705 m), making it the highest elevation for a confirmed tornado in the United States.
The warmest day on record for the entire planet was 22 July 2024 when the highest global average temperature was recorded at 17.16 °C (62.89 °F). [20] The previous record was 17.09 °C (62.76 °F) set the day before on 21 July 2024. [20] The month of July 2023 was the hottest month on record globally. [21]
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 8 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
Within a matter of days, the blaze would become one of the largest wildfires in California history. It was a historic month for extreme heat, and now climate data have confirmed just how ...
The hottest day in Sacramento’s history happened Sept. 6, 2022, with a new record of 116 degrees. The city’s longest stretch of 100 degree days was an 11-day heat wave in 2009 . What’s in ...
The longer history of the proxy is then used to reconstruct temperature from earlier periods. Proxy records must be averaged in some fashion if a global or hemispheric record is desired. The "Composite Plus Scaling" (CPS) method is widely used for large-scale multiproxy reconstructions of hemispheric or global average temperatures.
California’s wildfires are tragic, but they’re not unprecedented. They are the product of well-known weather patterns, historical fire cycles, and decades of poor land management – not an ...
The greatest rainfall in one month was 14.50 inches (368 mm) in January 1969, including a record 24-hour rainfall of 6.71 inches (170.4 mm) on January 20 that month. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] In San Fernando Valley, the highest recorded temperature was 121 °F (49 °C) on September 5, 2020. [ 35 ]