Switching attention to Lake Tahoe, a 30-year-old low temperature record was felled here this week.Īccording to NWS data, Monday’s high of 54F at Lake Tahoe Airport was a full 20F below the seasonal norm, and broke 1995’s record for the lowest-high temperature. “This could be a year where July is the first 100-degree temperature in the year, which that hasn’t happened since 1998,” Craig Shoemaker, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Sacramento, confirmed. And looking ahead, no triple digits are in sight for the next few weeks, meaning the city is expected break a long-standing benchmark. Sacramento’s stretch of cold temperatures is threatening to break records, with the city still yet to post a 100F day. This cold is helping many keep up after a historic snow year, continued Anderson: “ slows that pace of melt and keeps those peaks into that manageable space allowing those reservoir operators and downstream communities to coordinate their activities and really make the best use of the water.” “This year, we are seeing something we really haven’t seen since 2011 where the March-April-May time period is noticeably cooler,” said state climatologist, Michael Anderson. With highs in the 70s (F), the Valley continues to run some 15F cooler than average. It may be the the first day of summer, but the mercury across California’s Sacramento Valley –for example– is feeling anything but summer-like. South of the border, too, the June cold continues to prove historic in parts. I’ve listed a handful of the felled benchmarks below: Exceptionally low temperatures swept British Columbia yesterday, June 20 - record levels for the time of year.
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