It was one of the warmest summers on record in much of Southern California, the National Weather Service reported this morning.
The average temperature from July 1 through Aug. 31 was “the hottest, or one of the hottest, such periods at many locations in Southwestern California since records began,” the weather agency said in a statement.
In Long Beach, the average temperature was 78 degrees, a tie for the warmest summer on record set in 1998.
The two months of summer averaged 4 to 7 degrees above normal in most other areas:
- Downtown Los Angeles averaged 78.5 degrees, beating the previous record of 78.3 in 1983.
- Burbank averaged 79.6 degrees, beating the previous record of 79.1 degrees in 1984.
- Van Nuys averaged 82.3 degrees, beating the previous record of 80.1 degrees in 2017.