Strong high pressure ridging with downslope winds brought a number of daily record high temperatures to portions of the Central Valley.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
Strong high pressure ridging with downslope winds brought a number of daily record high temperatures to portions of the Central Valley.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 12, 9:45 PM PST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
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</html>7 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A daily high temperature record of 77 degrees was tied at Modesto Airport. The record was previously reached in 1995.
A daily high temperature record of 79 degrees was set at Sacramento Executive Airport. This broke the previous record of 78 degrees set in 1995.
A daily high temperature record of 78 degrees was tied at Downtown Sacramento. The record was previously reached in 1995.
A daily high temperature record of 81 degrees was set at Red Bluff Airport. This broke the previous record of 76 degrees set in 2007.
A daily high temperature record of 84 degrees was set at Red Bluff Airport. This broke the previous record of 80 degrees most recently reached in 1936.
A daily high temperature record of 83 degrees was tied at Redding Airport, which was most recently reached in 1917.
A daily high temperature record of 76 degrees was tied at Stockton Airport. The record was previously reached in 1995.
A daily high temperature record of 78 degrees was tied at Modesto Airport. The record was previously reached in 1995.
A daily high temperature record of 77 degrees was set at Downtown Sacramento. This broke the previous record of 76 degrees set in 1995.
A daily high temperature record of 75 degrees was tied at Sacramento Exectutive Airport. The record was previously reached in 1995.
A daily high temperature record of 79 degrees was set at Stockton Airport. This broke the previous record of 76 degrees set in 2005.
A daily high temperature record of 79 degrees was set at Modesto Airport. This broke the previous record of 76 degrees set in 1995.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in California, November 2008
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 137909, 137911, 137912, 137913, 137914, 137915, 137916.