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While highs will be above average today and tomorrow, we’re expecting a little bit of below seasonal weather by midweek as a weak trough moves toward the coast. Today, we’ll see highs near 112, but luckily the monsoon flow remains to our East, keeping dew points in check for the next few days. The relatively
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The average high temperature this time of year is 108°. This weekend has remained hot with Sunday being the hottest day. Through the coming week, temperatures will be relatively cooler, dropping below average. A weak trough will develop along the west coast cooling temperatures through Thursday. Winds this evening through Monday morning will be gusty.
Continue Reading Today, Palm Springs reached a high temperature of 114°. The average for this time of year is 108°. Temperatures will warm up another degree or two by Sunday before reaching closer to average again by next week. Sixteen days in a row have been above average. Palm Springs International Airport recorded a record high temperature
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The average high temperature for this time in July remains 108°. Temperatures will be 5°-8° above average for the weekend. A ridge of high pressure to the east will have a slight westward enhancement this weekend. This will warm temperatures up, with Sunday being the warmest day of the weekend. Temperatures about 5° above average
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High pressure is once again going to dominate the surface map in the Desert Southwest, raising temps (but not the record levels we saw last weekend). We’ve been keeping an eye on Monsoonal flow from the SE, but it appears to have dried out nicely for the weekend, and the ridge of high pressure should
Continue Reading The average high temperature in Palm Springs is 108° for this time in July. We have had a few days near seasonal average but we are tracking warmer temperatures on the way. A trough of low pressure has been hanging around keeping temperatures near seasonal with some breezy winds. Winds will be breezy again tonight,
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After a hot start to the week, and record breaking heat last Sunday, we’re milder today, with highs topping out near our seasonally normal 108. A weak low pressure system off the coast enhanced the Marine Layer, and will help keep us modestly cooler today. With a slight Northwesterly breeze, the air quality has improved,
Continue Reading Today, Palm Springs reached a high temperature of 109°. The average today is 108°. Temperatures will stay near seasonal through Thursday with a weak trough of low pressure remaining along the west coast. The trough of low pressure is also increasing onshore flow. This will bring some breezy winds to the mountains and desert for
Continue Reading Palm Springs Tuesday reached a high temperature of 110°. This is above average slightly but still closer to normal than we were over the weekend. The average this time of the year is 108°. Temperatures will remain closer to seasonal through Thursday because of a weak trough of low pressure on the west coast. This
Continue Reading We have recorded 14 days in a row of triple digit temperatures, since June 30th. Palm Springs Monday reached 117°. That was the last day of excessive heat for this week. Today, the ridge of high pressure keeping temperatures well above average is shifting east. By Wednesday, we are watching a weak trough of low
Continue Reading This past weekend was the hottest of the year, so far. Sunday, in Palm Springs, the record high temperature was broken! Palm Springs reached 121° which breaks the old record of 120° from 1985. The good news, temperatures will be getting back to seasonal this week. This ridge of high pressure that was farther west
Continue Reading Palm Springs broke the high temperature record today, previously set in 1985. The new record is 121°. The reason for this excessive, dangerous heat is a very strong and expansive high pressure system to the east. This upper level system will weaken over the next couple days, but we do still have an Excessive Heat
Continue Reading On Saturday, Palm Springs reached a high temperature of 119°. This is very hot, considering the record high temperature for July 11 is 121° from 1958. Dangerous heat will continue Sunday. A ridge of high pressure does remain in control, though it will be weakening today. Temperatures are still expected to remain well above average
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Friday, Palm Springs reached a high temperature of 111°. Temperatures will continue to heat up through the weekend. A ridge of high pressure to the east will bring the heat west. The average for Saturday is 107° with 108° by Sunday. Temperatures will warm up to the point of being close to record breaking heat.
Continue Reading Today brought record heat to areas of Southern California and we were close to breaking a record right here in Palm Springs. Today’s high temperature was only 2° off of the record of 121° set back in 1958. Temperatures are only going to get hotter as we head into Sunday. We’re tracking close to record
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A large ridge of high pressure will bring some of the hottest days we’ve seen all year right here to the Coachella Valley. Highs over the weekend will reach close to 118 degrees, but in order to tie or beat those records, we’ll need to reach 120 or hotter: The best chance to meet or
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High pressure builds in over the entire Desert Southwest for the weekend, prompting an Excessive Heat Warning for the region through Monday. There may be a small bit of monsoonal moisture rising up from the Southeast as Tropical Storm Cristina circulates farther out into the Pacific. The large ridge of high pressure should protect us
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Highs will start to warm up in earnest tomorrow as high pressure builds into the Western states. We’ll see near record level heat across most of the Desert Southwest including our Valley. The hint of monsoonal activity seems to be moving farther south as the ridge of high pressure will dominate the surface map and
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Highs today will be about a cool as we’ll see all week long, topping out near 108 as high pressure has retreated to the East a bit. With that, air quality has hovered in the “Moderate” range, and will do so through tomorrow into Friday. That area of high pressure will retrograde back toward Southern
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High temperatures are trending downward after hitting 115 on Sunday. Yesterday, we topped out at 113, and today will be slightly cooler as high pressure retreats to the East. Despite the lower numbers expected today through midweek, an Excessive Heat Watch (likely to become an Excessive Heat Warning) has been issued for the weekend, with
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