[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (July 10)

2007: Nickel size (0.88" in diameter) hail fell in Yosemite Valley during an afternoon thunderstorm.

2002: It was 116° in Victorville, the highest temperature on record.

2002: Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park reached an all-time record high for any month of 91°.

1999: A funnel cloud was observed in Hesperia.

1996: Lightning hit the San Diego region.
Power was knocked out in central San Diego, the zoo and other metro areas.
0.09" of rain fell in San Diego, one of the wetter July days on record.

1979: It was a scorching 123° at Palm Springs, the highest temperature on record.
This also occurred on 6.28.1995 and 6.29.1995, and on 8.1.1993.

1953: Pismo Beach hit 104°, establishing an all-time high temperature for July.

1940: It was 97° at Santa Ana and 96° at Laguna Beach.

1913: It was134° at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, the highest temperature on record for the Western Hemisphere and only two degrees off the world record of 136° in El Azizia, Libya.

1855: An earthquake in LA caused two large swell to hit Dana Point.

Source: NWS Hanford & San Diego

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