Welcome to June: 103-degree heat to hit Sacramento for second straight week
If you’ve forgotten to flip your calendar over to June, the Northern California heat may soon remind you: summer’s coming, and fast.
Sacramento is forecast to reach a high of 103 degrees Wednesday and 102 Thursday, amid a heat advisory by the National Weather Service that’s in place for the Sacramento Valley and much of the Bay Area through 8 p.m. Thursday. The capital reached 98 degrees Tuesday afternoon and topped out at 88 Monday, the first day of June.
Another weekend reprieve is on the way. The NWS predicts highs will cool to 88 degrees by Friday, 78 Saturday and all the way down to 76 by Sunday, with mostly sunny skies but a very slight chance of showers Saturday morning.
Wednesday’s heat shouldn’t touch the all-time record for June 3, which was a blistering 110 degrees set amid a severe 1960 heat wave. But Thursday’s predicted high of 102 would tie a mark that has stood since 1975, according to NWS data. The average max temperature for early June in Sacramento is 84 or 85 degrees.
Sacramento last hit triple digits in late May — 103 degrees on May 26-27, and 102 last Thursday, before temperatures quickly dropped to the 80s by the weekend.
The NWS Sacramento office continues to remind people that despite hot air temperatures, waterways continue to run fast and cold this time of year, presenting a risk of hypothermia.
