A high-end heat event occurred in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley regions during the middle of July, 2023. The highest temperatures recorded at most… [Read More]
July 9, 2023 Death Valley Region Heat Event
A high-end heat wave enveloped the Death Valley region during the middle of July, 2023. I saved a bunch of maps each day leading up… [Read More]
Record Cool Start to 2023 at Westlake Village
The current year started off wet and cool for most of coastal Southern California (Jan-Mar), and it continued cool and very cloudy for most of… [Read More]
March 22, 2023 A tornado in Montebello
A potent storm swept through Southern California on Tue, March 21. On the next day, energetic cyclonic WSW flow continued over Los Angeles County above… [Read More]
September 22, 2022 Death Valley Too Hot Again
A recent blog entry by me which compared the official Death Valley temperature-measurement instrumentation with adjacent temporary equipment (installed by Dirk Baker of Campbell Scientific)… [Read More]
Detailed Afternoon Temperature Comparisons at Furnace Creek in Death Valley in July 2021
Dirk Baker of Campbell Scientific set up separate temperature-measuring instrumentation at the official Death Valley/Furnace Creek weather station in May, 2021. The purpose was, in… [Read More]
August 1, 2022 Stovepipe Wells 1SW Weather Station Images
A “USCRN” weather station was established near Stovepipe Wells, California, in Death Valley in May, 2004. USCRN stands for “United States Climate Reference Network,” and… [Read More]
August 5, 2022 Big Wet and Muddy Mess in Death Valley
(Youtube video with some video and pics of rain and flooding in DV on Aug 5) The 2022 summer monsoon season has been quite active… [Read More]
An Investigation of Death Valley’s 134°F (56.7°C) World Temperature Record (Reid/Burt WU article)
In 2016, climatologist Chris Burt asked me to write an article for his WU (Weather Underground) blog regarding my research on the record high temperatures… [Read More]
New State High Temperature Records for Washington and Oregon and Canada
The mega heat event of late June, 2021, smashed all-time high temperature records for many stations in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This… [Read More]
BAD WEATHER DATA Los Angeles USC Station
March 1, 2022 Today I am posting the first of what I hope will be many entries regarding bad, poor, lousy, incorrect, and/or dubious weather… [Read More]
Local Weather Records Archive
This page provides links to the pages for local weather records for the San Fernando Valley and vicinity. Woodland Hills Weather Records/1977 to 1997 observer… [Read More]
Death Valley July 2021 Heatwave Analysis
January 5, 2022 update — adding more analysis and comparisons of additional stations in the region…about halfway done with that… Image above: The Death Valley… [Read More]
August 25, 2021 New Weather Station in Death Valley, at Badwater!
Stop the presses — the National Weather Service has installed a new online weather station at the hottest spot in Death Valley, which also… [Read More]
July 10, 2021 Hot Drive to Death Valley, and a high of 129.4F!
A very warm airmass was forecast to build over the Death Valley region beginning about July 8. Heights of 6000 meters at the 500… [Read More]