PHOENIX (AP) – Unusually high temperatures in the West didn’t quite break records Wednesday, and the heat was on its way out in many areas.
The National Weather Service forecast a high of 91 degrees in Phoenix in what would be the earliest the temperature reached the 90-degree mark in the city, and break a nearly 30-year-old record.
By early afternoon however, the temperature stood at 83.
“We may not even tie the record today,” said James Sawtelle, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Phoenix.
Sawtelle said a ridge that had been bringing warm air into the Phoenix metropolitan area was shifting off to the east faster than anticipated and that cooler air from the west was moving in.