All Time Record High at Los Angeles Today

This is a pretty significant record at Downtown Los Angeles today…

At LAX…the mercury peaked at 11 a.m. at 103F, but fell after that due to a westerly wind kicking (bringing cooler air from the ocean.)

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 PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
 1230 PM PDT MON SEP 27 2010

 ...ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE BROKEN IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES...

 THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES REACHED 113 DEGREES AT
 1215 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON. THAT IS THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER
 RECORDED IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1877. THIS
 ALSO BREAKS THE RECORD FOR THE DAY OF 106 SET IN 1963. IT IS STILL
 POSSIBLE THAT IT WILL GET HOTTER TODAY SO A RECORD TEMEPERATURE
 REPORT WILL BE ISSUED ONCE IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE HIGH
 TEMPERATURE FOR TODAY HAS BEEN REACHED.

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