Triple Digits Through the Weekend
Meteorologist Mike Krueger
Thu, 05/15/2008 - 17:01
We started the day off on Thursday with some of the warmest overnight lows set on May 15th with a low of 77 degrees in Redding breaking the old record of 69 set in 1967. Red Bluff, Chico, Oroville, and Orland (just to name a few) also broke their warmest overnight records. These warm overnight lows set the stage for us to break our record high temperatures with highs 100 degrees or higher for most of us in the valley. Most of the old records (overnight and daytime) were set in 1987 which was the last major heat wave we saw in mid-May.
The triple digit heat is expected to last through the weekend with highs between 100 and 105 degrees under sunny skies.
Even though our highs are going to drop below 100 degrees by Monday of next week we are still going to be experiencing temperatures about 10 to 15 degrees higher than normal. The average high for this time of year is about 80 degrees and our highs on Monday through Thursday of next week are going to range between the lower to even upper 90’s.
Top Story
Woman Hit by Truck, Killed
A young Corning woman was fatally hit by a truck. The question now for CHP is whether or not it was an accident. 24-year old Rose Brown was struck and killed shortly after 6 on Thursday morning near the intersection of McCoy Road and Matlock Loop in Red Bluff. The person driving the truck was one of her friends. Officers say that just before she was hit, Brown got into an argument with someone inside that truck. There were two men and two women inside that truck. They were leaving Red Bluff, heading out to Hayfork. When Brown and another passenger started arguing, the driver asked them to get out. They did, but then one of them, not Brown, got back in the car. The truck took off, leaving her on the road. That is when they hit her. They took her to the hospital themselves, but it was too late by then. Officers say the driver did not have drugs or alcohol in his system. As for Brown, they are waiting for the autopsy to find out if she had drugs or alcohol in her system. No arrests have been made.
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