Syzdekistan

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 19^th

Daggett California…
108 old record 103 set in 2006

Needles California…
114 old record 110 set in 2006

Las Vegas
Nevada… ..108 old record 102
set in 2006

Bishop California…
.99 old record 98 set in 1954

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

Mount Charleston
Nevada… 82 old reading 79 set
in 1986

Kingman Arizona…
… … ..103 old reading 96 set in 2006

Death Valley California…
120 old reading 114 set in 2006.

The National Park service in Death
Valley also stated that the 120 degree reading today was the
earliest in the year that 120 degrees had been reached with the previous record
being May 25, 1913.