Excessive Heat in Coachella Valley, California

Excessive Heat June 14, 2021 – June 21, 2021 · Coachella Valley, California

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What the National Weather Service wrote

Extreme heat occurred across the Coachella Valley with temperatures over 120 degrees. Thermal reported a high of 119 twice along with a morning low temperature of 90. Palm Springs tied their all-time record high temperature of 123 degrees on June 17th and reported a low temperature of 90 the following morning. There was one heat-related fatality on June 19th in Palm Springs, where a man simply collapsed while walking down the city streets.

The wider storm

A long lasting heat wave occurred across Southern California from June 14th through the 20th, where many daily records were broken. A wildfire also broke out in the Riverside County Mountains on the 13th, which led to damages and road closures. Isolated thunderstorms also produced gusty winds.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 966943. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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