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Record high temperatures across the area this afternoon…

A strong ridge of high pressure over the area today resulted in many official record temperatures being broken.

High temperature records for may 18^th

Daggett California… 107 old record 102 set in 1954

Needles California… 111 old record 110 set in 2006

Las Vegas Nevada… 104 old record 103 set in 2006

In addition to the above official records… unofficial records were also set at

Mount Charleston Nevada… 80 old reading 75 set in 2006

Kingman Arizona… … … ..99 old reading 98 set in 2006

With…

Death Valley California..118 old reading 116 set in 2006.

The National Park service also stated that the 118 degree reading today was the earliest in the year that 118 degrees had been reached with the previous record being May 22 2000.

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