A strong high pressure ridge and northerly downslope winds brought 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.
A strong high pressure ridge and northerly downslope winds brought record high temperatures to portions of the Central Valley.
2 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A daily record high temperature of 75 degrees was set at Sacramento Executive Airport. This broke the previous record of 74 degrees set in 2005.
The daily high temperature record of 78 degrees was tied at Modesto Airport. The record was previously reached in 1932.
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: 137917, 137918.