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Climate & Environment

Your SoCal weather report for Tuesday, July 23: Warmer temperatures for inland areas

A geothermal map of SoCal in shades of orange, green and yellow with white numbers over different cities.
Forecast highs for Tuesday.
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Quick Facts

  • Today’s weather: Hot, sunny
  • Beaches: 70s
  • Mountains: 89-99
  • Inland: 90s-105
  • Warnings and advisories: Excessive Heat warning, heat advisory

Here's your Tuesday forecast — around 5 degrees warmer for inland areas with minor chances of afternoon showers and thunderstorms.

Monsoonal moisture continues to bring a low but current threat to our sunny skies, which means there's a 20% to 30% chance over deserts and mountains of afternoon showers and thunderstorms.

Meanwhile, coastal areas will continue to see dense fog through 9 a.m. with afternoon highs in the 70s for the beaches to upper 80s into downtown Los Angeles.

Heat advisories for the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys, the Santa Monica Mountains and the Inland Empire valleys and mountains end at 10 p.m. Thursday.

Highs today will range between 95 to 105 degrees — expect a high of 108 degrees for the high desert and up to 114 degrees for Coachella Valley.

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Forecasters say the heatwave will peak Wednesday and Thursday.

Overnight lows will be a bit warmer in the interior areas with highs in the low 70s and 80s for the deserts. Read why that's a health risk.

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Check out our full list of things to do this week.

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