I grew up in Glendale where in the 1950s and 1960s 110 or 115 wasn't an unusual occurrence and neither was it for places like Woodland Hills deeper in the Valley, especially in August and September then. But, 121 degrees has always ONLY been a figure you would see in Palm Springs or places like Death Valley. Even Las Vegas rarely goes above 115 degrees (Las Vegas was only 115 degrees today for example. But, 121 degrees in Woodland Hills could kill many people who might still live there without Air conditioning like older people in apartments or really old homes in the Valley. This is serious climate change that is going to kill people if we get much more of it.
If you live in the East it is dry here in California most places which is why we can survive these temperatures. With real humidity like you get in the South no one could walk around here at 121 degrees Fahrenheit and live through it.
Luckily Woodland Hills is only 102 degrees Fahrenheit tomorrow after reaching 121 today even though it was only predicted to be 110 today!
It's just 86 degrees at 11:49 pm Sunday Night still! with a low of 78 degrees tonight. Also, in the 1950s and 1960s most people didn't have air conditioning then. Most of the time we either had air conditioning or a swamp cooler to stay cool then. And we never had central Air conditioning and only a single Air Conditioner in a window in the kitchen there usually in the 1950s and 1960s in Glendale.
Most cars then didn't have air conditioners either so people had a lot of headaches then from driving in traffic jams with no air conditioning in the very bad sulfur smog then too. I don't think we had a car that had an air conditioner until around 1965 in a new Chevrolet Impala my mother owned that was gold.
Even my brand new 1968 Camaro didn't have air conditioning then because it was mostly thought to be what women wanted then so it wasn't macho to have air conditioning at all then. We just had headaches a lot in the heat instead and some got heat prostration and wound up in the hospital. This was just the way things were then in Southern California in the 1950s and 1960s.
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