A Heat Record Downtown, But Not Quite at Sacramento Executive Airport

So, it appears Downtown Sacramento reached a new heat record, at 116 degrees F, but the 1961 record of 115 degrees F at Sacramento Executive Airport still holds. 

At 7 p.m., I finally turned on the air conditioning in my house (it was feeling toasty at 97 degrees). I just hope I don't crash the entire electrical grid by doing so.

Downtown Sacramento reached an all-time high temperature of 116 degrees Tuesday afternoon, breaking a record that was set nearly 100 years ago. 

The now surpassed record of 114 degrees was set on July 17, 1925, the National Weather Service in Sacramento announced in social media posts. Sacramento had already broken heat records over the Labor Day weekend as a lengthy heat wave continued to produce surging temperatures in the region. 

But after meeting the record around 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, the mercury kept rising — the downtown gauge near Sacramento State rose to 115 just before 4 p.m., according to the weather service. At 5:18 p.m., the weather service announced that downtown Sacramento had just reached 116 degrees.