[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (May 31)

2001: Fresno reached 106°, marking the 9th time this month the high reached into the triple digits.
This set a record for the most triple digit high temperatures in May.

2001: It was 93° in Idyllwild, the highest temperature on record for May.
This also occurred on 5.29.1984.
It was 91° in Palomar Mountain, the highest temperature on record for May.
This also occurred on 5.28.2003.

1998: Fresno reached a high of only 85° and in Bakersfield the high reached 84°.
This was the warmest reading of the month at both locations and only the 3rd May on record in both cities that the high temperature never cracked 90° (also occurred in May 1917 and 1961).

1971: 8" of snow fell at Glenbrook, its all-time record one-day total for May.

1910: Earliest 110° high temperatures on record at Fresno and Bakersfield.
Also the highest temperatures ever recorded at both locations for May.
In Lemon Cove, the high reached a sweltering 118°, the highest on record here in May.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno & San Diego

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