Temperatures top 100 degees in some parts of Southland
The calendar says November, the Thanksgiving turkeys are on order and Christmas carols are popping up in TV commercials. And triple-digit temperatures outside?
The National Weather Service said temperatures Wednesday reached record highs throughout Southern California, including some readings that topped the 100-degree mark.
The temperature reached a record 101 degrees in Santa Ana about 2 p.m. -- 22 degrees higher than the previous record of 79 degrees, which was set last year. The normal high on Nov. 3 for Santa Ana is 72 degrees.
In Long Beach, the thermometer reached the 100-degree mark shortly after 2 p.m., trumping the previous record of 94 degrees set in 1994.
Others at or above the century mark: Chino, San Gabriel and the Whittier Hills, 100; Pasadena, 101; and Anaheim, 102.
Downtown Los Angeles just missed triple digits, with the mercury stopping at a still-record-breaking 97 degrees. The previous record was set in 1900, at 96 degrees.
The autumn sizzle is expected to continue Thursday but then give way to a cool and breezy, if not cloudy, weekend, with highs in the 70s, according to the National Weather Service.
-- Rick Rojas
EDITOR'S PICKS:
What - no comments about global warming being an Al Gore-devised fraud?
Posted by: Otis | November 03, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Global warming is an Al Gore-devised fraud!
Posted by: sostrooper | November 04, 2010 at 12:20 AM
Man made global warming is debatable but that doesn't mean that I don't want to see a reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels or not want to see green alternatives become more inexpensive and widely available.
Posted by: Rick | November 04, 2010 at 12:41 AM
More proof that Global Warming is a hoax.
Rush Limbaugh was right. Just look at all that snow...
Posted by: Manuel | November 04, 2010 at 01:07 AM
I am going to go broke running my air conditioner, but I want to be comfortable.
Posted by: uncle_vito | November 04, 2010 at 04:29 AM
Climate change is an Al Gore-devised fraud. The high was only 22 degrees higher than last year, which was also a record.
Posted by: Patriot | November 04, 2010 at 06:38 AM
Someone out there no doubt believes that this is global warming..... Al Gore's greatest devised fraud.
That was for you, Otis. LOL
Posted by: BeautySchoolDropout | November 04, 2010 at 07:42 AM
You put 1 person in a closed room you get a certain temperature. You put 100 people in the same room, the temp. goes up. You put 1000 people in the same room running mopeds... Our atmosphere is essentially a closed room and we've done filled it up.
Posted by: Roman Garrison | November 04, 2010 at 01:15 PM