Record high, or not
It was 103°F (39°C) in West Hills when I left for work this morning. This is quite interesting, as long as this temperature represents a normal variance and not the effect of global warming. Perhaps more interesting is that half an hour away in Thousand Oaks the local temperature was only 88°F (30°C).
I went to Weather.com to check for averages and records for 29 May. The average high is 83°F (28°C). The record highs for 28 and 30 May are 104°F (40°C) and 106°F (41°C), respectively, putting 103°F in the region of the record highs for adjacent days. But the record temperature for today, 29 May, is 113°F (45°C), set in 1984! This temperature is also the record high for the entire month of May.
The Weather.com weather shows Thousand Oaks now at 96°F (35°C). Its record high? Also 113°F in 1984. I am glad I was in Japan at that time.
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