WEEKEND MIGHT BE RECORD SCORCHER.Byline: Robert Monroe Staff Writer The heat Friday fell short of breaking records but forecasters are not ruling out chances for new all-time highs over the weekend. High-pressure air hovering hov·er intr.v. hov·ered, hov·er·ing, hov·ers 1. To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air: gulls hovering over the waves. 2. over Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, drove up the mercury, foreshadowing fore·shad·ow tr.v. fore·shad·owed, fore·shad·ow·ing, fore·shad·ows To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage. fore·shad what National Weather Service climatologists say will be a generally hot summer. 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) Western Region Climatologist cli·ma·tol·o·gy n. The meteorological study of climates and their phenomena. cli  ma·to·log Kelly
Redmond said the latest reports show nearly every part of the country
being extra-hot.
``California, especially toward the southern part, has the highest odds of having a warmer-than-usual summer,'' he said. As for this weekend, NWS Weather Specialist Curt Kaplan said the warm spell Warm Spell (1988-1994) was an American Eclipse Award winning thoroughbred racehorse, a Kentucky-bred son of Northern Baby, owned and trained by John K. Griggs and bred by Robert Kluener. He was ridden primarily by the owner/trainer's son, Kirk Griggs. should continue to build on itself. ``There's definitely a good chance in the valleys of breaking a record or two,'' Kaplan said. Not everyone in the Weather Service's Oxnard office agreed. Meteorologist Joe Sirard said the high-pressure system could make things even hotter but is too off-center to have the maximum influence. He put it this way: ``It's going to be warm to hot in the Valleys. We consider the 90s to be hot, but this time of year, record highs are very hot,'' Sirard said. On Friday, high temperatures in most cities fell well short of records. Burbank, whose high temperature record for May 19 is 101, stopped at 89 degrees. Chatsworth, with a record high of 96, reached 93. Woodland Hills came closest: The high temperature Friday was 96 but the record is 98. Forecasters say skies will remain sunny through the middle of next week with high temperatures remaining in the mid-90s and nighttime lows dropping from the mid-60s tonight to the mid-50s by Wednesday. |
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