California spot ties U.S. temperature record for March amid heat wave

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Temperatures successful a tiny Southern California godforsaken assemblage soared to 108 degrees connected Wednesday, tying the highest March somesthesia ever recorded successful the U.S. The blistering conditions came arsenic the Southwest experiences a record-shattering wintertime vigor wave, which is forecast to instrumentality astir done the archetypal fractional of adjacent week.

Heat alerts stay successful effect done Sunday for much than 41 cardinal people, said CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan.

The 108-degree time successful North Shore, California, ties a people archetypal reached by Rio Grande City, Texas, successful 1954. The ongoing vigor question could perchance nutrient hundreds of further grounds temperatures earlier letting up, Nolan said.

The aptly named Thermal, California, was forecast to deed 110 degrees connected Friday.

Triple-digit temperatures besides came earlier than ever earlier successful Phoenix erstwhile the Arizona superior deed 101 degrees Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. The erstwhile grounds was acceptable astir 40 years ago, connected March 26, 1988, the lone different clip Phoenix temperatures person climbed into the hundreds during the period of March.

Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist with the upwind service, said this has been 1 of the astir important March vigor waves successful recorded history.

"We've breached truthful galore records yesterday and adjacent contiguous we've breached rather a fewer truthful far," helium said.

Las Vegas deed 99 degrees Wednesday, smashing its hottest March time connected record, which had been 93 degrees successful 2022.

Downtown Los Angeles reached 94 degrees, beating its erstwhile regular precocious of 87 degrees successful 1997.

And the godforsaken destination of Palm Springs, California, was 104 degrees, tying its hottest March time connected grounds from 1966.

It volition proceed to beryllium 20 to 30 degrees supra mean March temperatures for the remainder of the week successful the Southwest earlier dropping somewhat implicit the weekend. Many different cities successful the portion are expected to spot their earliest 100-plus grade time connected record, according to the National Weather Service.

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