Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles reached 92 degrees on Thursday, making this year’s Thanksgiving holiday the hottest since official record keeping began in 1877.
The all-time high temperature was reached by noon, breaking the old Thanksgiving Day record of 90 degrees set on Nov. 26, 1903, according to the National Weather Service.
Records for Nov. 23 temperatures were also set in Long Beach and at Los Angeles International Airport, which both reached 91 degrees to top previous records set in 1990, the agency said.
Above-90-degree weather also set records in Westwood, Burbank, Camarillo, Oxnard, Woodland Hills, Palmdale, Escondido, El Cajon and Alpine. A temperature of 97 degrees was recorded in Lake Elsinore.
Meteorologists had predicted temperatures would drop slightly Thursday after an unseasonably hot Wednesday that also saw records break across Southern California.
An all-time November high had been recorded Wednesday in Camarillo, where temperatures reached 99 degrees.
The hot, dry conditions can be attributed to a ridge of high pressure lingering above the region, sending desert air flowing toward the coast, an NWS meteorologist told the Los Angeles Times.
Things were expected to cool off Friday.
Here are today’s high temperature records. The 87°F in San Diego ties the Thanksgiving record of 87°F set 11/24/1932. #CAwx #SanDiegoWX pic.twitter.com/PabuKeihxs
— NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) November 24, 2017
3 PM Temperatures across #SoCal. Hot #Thanksgiving day at many locales. #cawx pic.twitter.com/CkV9juuQvn
— NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) November 23, 2017
Hottest Thanksgiving on record for Downtown Los Angeles. So far the high temperature of 91 has surpassed the all time records since 1877.#SoCal #CAwx #LAheat #LAWeather
— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) November 23, 2017
Records tied or broken so far today.
Downtown LA 91/old 91 in 1933
LAX Airport 91/old 84 in 1990
Long Beach 90/old 85 in 1990
Burbank 88/old 86 in 1950
Camarillo 92/old in 88 in 1950
WFO Oxnard 91/old 88 in 1950#SoCal #CAwx #LAheat #LAWeather— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) November 23, 2017