BUT IT'S A DRY HEAT! TEMPERATURES SET RECORD IN LANCASTER AS REGION SWELTERS.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Heat set records for the second consecutive day in Lancaster. The National Weather Service said Wednesday's temperature at 3 p.m. was 109 degrees, up from the 104 set for the date in 1975, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) records that go back only until 1974. Tuesday's temperature reached 112 in Lancaster, topping the previous post-1974 overall high of 110. ``It is hot,'' said Principal Melinda Keenan at Lancaster's El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. School, where youngsters were kept indoors during recess and at lunchtime, watching Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse Famous character of Walt Disney's animated cartoons. He was introduced in Steamboat Willie (1928), the first animated cartoon with sound. Mickey was created by Disney, who also provided his high-pitched voice, and was usually drawn by the studio's head animator, and Scooby-Doo cartoons while they ate lunch. The heat peaked in the afternoon when the students were waiting in line for buses and parents to take them home. Keenan said she had a water bottle to spray cooling water on pupils. ``Anybody I see who is waiting for a parent, I get them in the shade and spray them off,'' she said. There was no new temperature record set Wednesday in Palmdale, where Weather Service statistics date back to 1931. Palmdale's temperature was 102 at 3 p.m. The record for the date is 113, set in 1961. That also is Palmdale's overall record high temperature. Despite the temperatures, Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital emergency room staffers have had no patients brought in with heat-related problems, a spokesman said. ``I think people here just are more accustomed and they know how to handle the heat,'' hospital spokesman Ed Callahan said. The heat probably contributed to a power outage Noun 1. power outage - equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; "the ice storm caused a power outage" power failure equipment failure, breakdown - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" that knocked out electricity about 4 p.m. Tuesday to some 3,200 Quartz Hill homes and businesses. Most had power restored by 6 p.m. Electrical gear in an underground vault on Rancho Vista Boulevard failed, possibly because it was under a heavy load from air conditioners and other electric devices. ``When the equipment is working near capacity, that's when you find out if something is a little bit marginal - that's when they fail,'' Edison spokeswoman Alis Clausen said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) The sign at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. registers a blistering 109 degrees Wednesday, topping Lancaster's previous July 10 record of 104 degrees set in 1975. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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