 Needles, California recorded a low temperature for Sunday, July 23 at 5 am., of 100 °F (38 °C) and in the LA basin the same night, Burbank recorded an overnight low of 77 °F (25 °C).The California heat wave broke local records.According to some reports it was "hotter for longer than ever before, and the weather patterns that caused the scorching temperatures were positively freakish."