It Is 66.6*

55° in Denver

108 in Tucson

Around here it's the humidity, not the heat. Dew point of 74F. 'nuff said.

Our official temp today here in Austin was 100°, 37% humidity and a heat index of 107°. I saw 101° on the car's thermometer, driving to the grocery this afternoon. At my age, it seems a lot hotter, but you know...

72 degree F, light breeze, mostly sunny. Very pleasant around here.

"The fog is in. About 61 here, and that means the temps should be improving in the inland areas."

The peculiar topography of California creates some interesting weather paradoxes. As the Central Valley heats up the warm air rises, creating a low pressure area. Marine air rushes in through the gap in the coast ranges at the Carquinez Straits. Result: coastal fog. The cool moist air takes a few days to work its way inland then north and south in the Valley. The heat wave then changes to several days of abnormally cool moist weather. A similar effect causes the snowpack and rainfall in the central Sierra and Tahoe to be much deeper than higher elevations north and south. Winter Pacific storms encounter the coast ranges first, losing some of their moisture and intensity before hitting the northern and southern Sierra. The part of the storm that enters California in the Bay area goes straight to the Sierra without encountering the coast range. So a small section of the central Sierra receives the full unabated brunt of the storm.