SLO County breaks 54-year-old heat record. How hot did it get?
Paso Robles broke a 54-year-old heat record as scorching temperatures rolled across San Luis Obispo County this week.
According to a post on X from the National Weather Service, Paso Robles hit a whopping 93 degrees on Tuesday — 5 degrees hotter than the 88-degree heat record for the same day, set in 1972.
It also tied for the March record as a whole.
The highest Paso Robles has seen temperatures get in March is 93 degrees — a record originally set in 2015 and just matched on Tuesday, the post showed.
The sweltering heat even delayed a softball game set to take place at Paso Robles High School between the Bearcats and the Nipomo High School Titans on Tuesday and prompted the cancellation of a scheduled track meet.
Records were also broken in other cities on the Central Coast and throughout Southern California, including Santa Maria, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, the graph showed.
The record-breaking temperatures hitting SLO County and elsewhere in California were set to last through the end of the week.
The Weather Service encouraged residents to plan for the warm weather.
“This is just the start of a LONG DURATION HEAT WAVE, with no relief expected the rest of the week — especially inland of the beaches,” it said. “Take heat risks seriously. Make a plan now on how you will stay cool the rest of the week.”
This week’s SLO County heat wave prompted heat advisories and warnings from the Weather Service.
An advisory was in place for the beaches and coastal valley areas through Friday and the North County got its own heat advisory, also set to last through Friday.
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