SECOND UPDATE:
According to the Eureka office of the National Weather Service, coastal communities have another record-breaker in Wednesday, with temperatures at Woodley Island hitting 71 degrees by 9 a.m. Inland temps are even hotter.
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UPDATE:
Eureka tied the highest temp for the month of June, hitting the 85 degree mark, but the record won’t be official until 5 p.m.
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A heat advisory issued by the National Weather Service in Eureka is in effect until 7 p.m. tonight, including coastal areas.
According to a tweet earlier today, temperatures at the Woodley Island office reached 83 degrees, just two degree shy of the record for the month of June, but easily surpassed the date’s high of 69 set back in 1963 by hitting 73 degrees by 9:30 a.m.
The Eureka office reported in a thread on the post. “Yesterday the high was 81, which ranks 4th (39th all-time). We’ll see what today reaches!”
Cooler temperatures are expected to return later in the week.
Editor’s note: This story was updated to reflect the correct high temp for June.
This article appears in ‘A Comedy of Errors’.
