Excessive heat warnings and advisories continue as peak temperatures hit Wednesday
Summer-like temperatures continue Wednesday with heat wave highs forecasted to bring dangerously hot conditions to parts of the Inland Empire.
Tuesday's Woodland Hills high of 113 degrees set an all-time October heat record, previously set on October 1, 1980, at 110 degrees. Wednesday could top the record, with 114 forecasted.
"The peak of the heat is today, we are still plenty hot for the next several days," Paul Deanno, KCALNews meteorologist said as triple digits are forecasted for much of the Inland Empire Wednesday. It is expected to stay above 100 degrees for five more days in the region.
Tuesday also saw other record-breaking temperatures, at Palmdale Airport it was 104, breaking the record for the day of 100 set in 1980.
It was 103 in Lancaster, breaking the record for the day of 100 set in 2020. Sandberg's high of 95, broke the heat record for the day, surpassing 1980's record of 92.
On Wednesday, even more records were shattered in places like Lake Elsinore, which saw a high of 110 shatter its previous record by four degrees, and Lancaster, which climbed by another degree to 104, beating the record of 101 set in 2020.
Excessive heat warnings will be in place until 8 p.m. Monday in the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys, where temperatures could reach 109 degrees; in the Western San Gabriel Mountains and Interstate 5 and 14 freeway corridors, with highs potentially reaching 104 degrees; and the Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills, possibly reaching 102 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
A red flag warning of critical fire danger conditions will be in effect until 8 p.m. Thursday for the western San Gabriel Mountains and the 5 and 14 Freeway corridors due to the anticipated heat, gusty northeast winds and low humidity.
An excessive heat warning will be in place until 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Antelope Valley Foothills, with temperatures up to 105 degrees possible.
Excessive heat warnings will take effect at 10 a.m. Wednesday and continue through 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area, Calabasas.
A less severe heat advisory will be in effect until 8 p.m. Monday in the San Gabriel Valley and eastern San Gabriel Mountains. A heat advisory will be in effect in the coastal areas including downtown Los Angeles from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, and in Orange County inland areas from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday.
In the Inland Empire, almost all of which felt the impacts of the scorching heat, five middle school athletes were hospitalized after suffering from apparent heat-related illness during a track meet.
It happened Tuesday evening in Riverside, where more than a thousand students were gathered for a cross-country event at the Ben Clark Training Center.
"I got a call on the radio that we had called 911 for one athlete. Then, all of a sudden, it was four ambulances," said Eric Reynolds, the Woodcrest Christian School cross-country coach, who helped organize the event.
He says that they followed the CIF's heat illness prevention policies, which measure heat streets during sporting events. He said that despite the heat yesterday, they were nearly ten points below the scale where they have to modify events, and twelve under where they would cancel.
KCAL News meteorologists say that at the time that the ambulances were called to the field, at around 4 p.m., it was 101 degrees in Riverside.