Record breaking heat

Roundup Staff

Pierce College experienced record high temperatures Monday, with the campus weather station reporting 110 degrees at 2:10 p.m. Temperatures ranged in the triple digits throughout the day. Pierce College opened its weather station on July 1, 1949. For 55 years, the data was hand collected. In 2003, it was modified into a fully automated station, which cost Pierce College $10,000. The weather station holds the highest and lowest temperatures for all of Los Angeles. In July 1999, the weather station celebrated its 50th year and the website has been used by professionals and students ever since.

During the 1950s, its first decade of operation, the hottest Sept. 27 occurred in 1956 when the temperature hit 100 degrees. The coldest daily record of the decade was 47 degrees in 1950.

For a daily weather report, check out www.piercecollegeweather.com.