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After days of 100 F weather, today a cold front passed through and dropped the temps to the 80's. Unfortunately, this spawned super thunderstorms that really did a number on our area. Over 260,000 customers have lost power (including yours truly) due to downed power lines and fallen trees. Winds were ferocious; around 75 mph. My backyard is littered with boughs and stems from my tall tulip poplars. I filled two lawn litter garbage cans for collection tomorrow. I just got power back, but since it's been around 12 hours without electricity, I'll probably have to dump half of my refrigerator contents. Hopefully the freezers will still be OK. I drove out looking for dinner for us, and had to drive over 20 miles before there were lights on!

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Wow, Howard, hope you didn't have any significant damage.

This is one of the windier nights for us for the summer, probably around 25-30mph. No storms, just a "delta breeze", as they call it. There is a row of very old red gum eucalpytus on the west edge of my property (500' or so west of my house). On nights like tonight, it sounds like we're living right next to the ocean with strong surf action drowning out the sound of highway traffic, etc. We're down to 62F at 10:30 and will get below 60 tonight. Not banana weather!

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I looked out during the peak of the storm and watched my basjoo clump whipping in every direction. Surprisingly, when I went out to clean up, very few torn leaves! Its a tough plant!

And we were lucky. A 6 year old boy was killed when a tree toppled on to the minivan he was in. Waves in the Potomac swamped a boat with 7 people aboard; 2 were rescued by another boater, and the 5 remaining made it the 300 yards to shore safely. As soon as the storm started, I heard every ambulance and fire equipment siren going off. Very lucky, thank G-d.

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Anything under a 100 is nice and cool here in the valley
Today: Plentiful sunshine. High 99F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mainly clear skies. Low 67F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. High 97F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Low around 65F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.
Wednesday: Mainly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 60s.
Thursday: Mainly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 60s.
Friday: Sunny. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the upper 60s.
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Pretty nice out minus the rain.. Great back porch weather :^)

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Greg, you're a lot hotter than me. We only got to 77F today and the strong winds pushed the Bay Area fog to about five miles away from us. At 10pm we're down to 59F and it doesn't look like we'll get back above 80F until Friday. Really weird.

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Wow that is strange must be global cooling going on ! It was actually chilly this morning here.

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:ha: Tony, looks like a plane just gave you your daily dose of chemtrails. :ha:

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Man its Hot; to Hot to sit under an Umbrella @ the beach thats for sure. :^)

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Its been nice here
Today: Sunny. High 98F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mainly clear. Low 66F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. High around 100F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Low 67F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the mid 60s.
Thursday: Sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the mid 60s.
Friday: Sunshine. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 60s.

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A little heat this week

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It's warm and dry here and temps are upper 90's but the nights are getting cooler with lows in the mid 70's.

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Hot, pool water 94F.

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Today: Abundant sunshine. Very hot. High 107F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Generally clear. Low 73F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: A mainly sunny sky. Near record high temperatures. High 109F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: A mostly clear sky. Low 73F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. Highs 103 to 107F and lows in the upper 60s.
Friday: Sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the low 60s.
Saturday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the upper 50s.

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Expected to be 104F today. Got down to the upper 60s last night, which was refreshing.

Greg, I'm surprised that a forecast for Fresno would show lows in the 50s at this time of year. That happens here during some summer nights, but not when we're experiencing hot conditions like this. We get a lot of air flowing in from the SF Bay to help cool us off.

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I know did you notice the high for that day in the mid 80's how strange.

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I was skeptical that such a forecast was legitimate and thought it was just some error picked up by the online weather reporting services, but it is repeated in a Sacramento Bee newspaper article. Pretty wild change in temps!!!

Short, sharp Sacramento heat wave to be chased by dramatic cooling - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

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Rainy and cool. Looking forward to a bump up in temps and sun for the rest of the week.