Energy and Environment

Southern California gets heat and storms

By Washington Examiner
Published September 17, 2014 3:22am ET
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Southern California gets heat and storms
In this Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 photo, Marco Rencon shovels hot asphalt on a parking lot along Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach, Calif. Temperatures in Southern California have hit triple digits in many areas, sending Californians to their air conditioners and driving up power usage to its highest peak of the year. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Jeff Gritchen) | Jeff Gritchen

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wild weather hit Southern California on Tuesday, baking many areas with triple-digit heat but pummeling others with winds, lightning, rain and hail.

Moist, unstable air flowing up from the remnants of Hurricane Odile in Mexico’s Baja California combined with a continuing heat wave to produce cells of fierce thunderstorms in San Diego County, and in mountains and deserts.

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