Just a quick update - new records were set across the country today but for different reasons. Here in California, it was the heat, with several daily high temperature records set in the Bay Area:
92º in Oakland and San Jose
89º at San Francisco Airport
88º at downtown San Francisco
87º at Monterey
Tomorrow and especially the weekend will be cooler for the Bay Area. In the Front Range of the Rockies, daily record lows were set when skies cleared overnight after a fresh coating of snow:
19º in Denver
9º in Cheyenne
The most notable records set, however, were for snow in the Plains and Midwest. Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa likely set new all-time state records for May snowfall, with at least 10-12" of heavy, wet snow in some locations in those three states. The measurements are currently unofficial but should be certified in coming days. Locations further south are also seeing snow, such as Kansas City and Omaha, where accumulating snow has not occurred in May for over 40 years. Parts of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle also reported trace amounts of snow.
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