Cold Snaps 375-Day Heat Streak

For 375 days in Los Angeles, the mercury topped 60 degrees, but Tuesday’s high of “just 56 degrees” snapped that streak, the National Weather Service said today.

Tuesday was the first day since Dec. 19, 2013, that the high was below 60 degrees.

The NWS said that period was the second-longest streak of consecutive days with highs above 60 degrees at the downtown Los Angeles weather station, which began operations in 1877.

The longest stretch was a “whopping 629 days, from Feb. 27, 1993 through Nov. 17, 1994,” the NWS office said in a statement.

Before the current cold snap, every day in 2014 had a high above 60 degrees, meaning at least 363 days of this year reached that plateau. In 1994, the high temperature in L.A. was 60 degrees on 364 days.

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