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The heat is coming back in a serious way! Today, we expect near seasonal highs in the mid-nineties, and tomorrow as well, but by Sunday we’re into the triple digits and an excessive heat watch will become an excessive heat warning from the 25th through the 29th. Today, a weak trough up North will give
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Yesterday’s crippling 110 bested a decades old record of 107. Today, we’ll be slightly cooler, but not much. The Excessive Heat Warning remains in effect until 9 p.m. and then we’ll some more significant cooling into next week. Winds will become breezy this afternoon and evening as high pressure weakens, and a trough develops into
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The Excessive Heat Warning is still in effect until 9 p.m. tomorrow, and we tied yesterday’s record of 108, likely to be close again today, nearing the record of 107 as the heatwave persists. A ridge of high pressure will start to weaken tomorrow and into the weekend, as a trough moves in from the
Continue Reading Highs will increase a few degrees, and threaten the 107 record for today. Today and tomorrow will be the peak of the heat (with some signs indicating today may be the hottest day). The Excessive Heat Warning remains in effect. High pressure is gradually weakening, but it’s at it’s zenith today, so we’ll continue to
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Highs yesterday topped out at 101 at PSP, and today we’ll add to that number. An Excessive Heat Warning goes into effect at 10 a.m. and lass through Friday evening. High pressure will remain in place through Friday, and highs will be running between 105 and 110 through then, with a slight drop in highs
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Highs were in the upper-nineties over the weekend, and will hit that level again later today, but by tomorrow, the Valley will once again feel the summer-like heat with an Excessive Heat Watch likely to become a warning. Today, we’ll flirt with triple digits, but numbers will be similar to the weekend. Into the remainder
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High temperatures will drop a few degrees today, and again tomorrow into the weekend as a weak trough brings cooling and partly cloudy skies today. The trough brings some clouds into play early today, but expect those to clear out this afternoon. We remain under an Excessive Heat Warning through 9 p.m. After yesterday’s 105,
Continue Reading High pressure still controls the weather on the West Coast, keeping us hotter than normal by as much as 10-20 degrees, and the Excessive Heat Warning remains in effect through tomorrow evening. That area of high pressure begins to slide farther South and East, allowing modestly cooler air to filter in from the West. Highs
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The record high of 106 (set in 2013) for both today and tomorrow appears to be in danger of being tied or broken as highs soar today to some of the hottest levels we’ve seen all year. An Excessive Heat Warning remains in effect until Thursday at 9 p.m. It’s important to remember your hot-weather
Continue Reading After a bout of gusty winds last night, we’ll be cooler than the 105 we clocked yesterday, but triple digits are still the main ingredient in the forecast all the way through the week ahead. An Excessive Heat Warning remains in effect until 9 AM Thursday. High pressure will build back in today, keeping highs
Continue Reading After tying the previous record at Thermal yesterday (101), we’re likely to see more of those near-record triple digits all weekend and well into next week. For that reason, a Heat Advisory (not for the Valley) remains in effect in the Inland Empire and coastal areas. High pressure is the culprit and will remain in
Continue Reading Yesterday, the numbers were impressive, and the hottest thus far this year, but today we’ll see triple digits instead of high-nineties (98 PSP, 99 TRM yesterday). A Heat Advisory has been issued for areas to our West including the Inland Empire, Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles counties, but we are not presently included in
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A wildfire west of Murrieta has burned 1,926 acres and was 92% contained this morning and firefighters anticipated full containment by Friday. The Tenaja blaze was reported at 3:55 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Clinton Keith and Tenaja roads in the unincorporated community of La Cresta. The fire damaged two structures and threatened another
Continue ReadingA brush fire has broken out in the Whitewater area of Riverside County near Haugen-Lehmann Way. The fire is currently burning 2 acres of vegetation and has spread to structures. The blaze was first reported around 3:30 p.m. in the area of Laurel Crest and Desert View north of Interstate 10. 50 firefighters and seven engine
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An odor advisory that was issued for the Coachella Valley earlier this week due to elevated levels of hydrogen sulfide wafting up from the Salton Sea — creating a smell similar to rotten eggs — is set to expire this evening. The South Coast Air Quality Management District first issued the advisory Sunday after detecting
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Monday, Palm Springs broke a heat record set in 1969 when the mercury climbed all the way to a blistering 121 F°. At 3:00 p.m., it tied the record of 120 F°. On the other end of the valley, Thermal also saw the temperature climb to 120 F°, but that did not a tie a record. Sunday saw a
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