Unusal Weather Pattern for This Time of Year...Very Hot in the West

Temperatures today in the west will once again soar into the 110 to 125 degree range with Death Valley possibly reaching 128 degrees.  The all time highest temperature recorded on air was 134 in Death Valley back in July 1913.  The temperature at the Death Valley visitor center at 4:30 PM PDT is 123 degrees and it is 119 in Las Vegas.   An unseasonable jetstream pattern with a trough in the eastern Pacific and a developing ridge in the Southwest combined with a highly amplified trough in the East is producing dry weather and very hot conditions in the west with moist, wet and seasonably warm conditions in the eastern US.  More than 3 to 4 inches of rain is forecast over most of the eastern seaboard in the next 3 days.  The jetstream moves into Canada by July 13th or 14th and a more summerlike pattern takes over the lower 48 states. 

George Wright is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist for Wright Weather Consulting, LLC. George is also a meteorologist with ABC News and Cablevision News 12. Our website is WrightWeather.com.