• Phoenix logs highest August temperature on record

    Phoenix, Arizona, reached 47.8°C (118°F) on August 7, 2025, setting the highest August temperature since records began in 1895. Other locations across the region also saw record highs, with Blythe, California, reaching 48.9°C (120°F).

  • Los Angeles breaks 131-year-old daily record high temperature

    Weather stations located in downtown Los Angeles measured a record-breaking daily high temperature of 36.6 °C (98 °F) on Saturday, July 8, 2017. The previous record for the day was 35 °C (95 °F) set in 1886. The record comes amid relentless heatwave…

  • Wild US summer heat wave smashes records

    As the temperatures have risen across the United States this summer, weather records have fallen left and right. The horrible July heat wave, lasting weeks in some cities, the entire month in others, has affected nearly 200 million people at some point. Plenty of…