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“That was the hottest temperature of the year by a good margin” for Palm Springs, said Sebastian Westerink, a National Weather Service meteorologist in San Diego.

The summer solstice marks the start of astronomical summer - a time some people associate with the beginning of the season, although meteorologists mark it from the beginning of June.

It isn’t just meteorologists and technicians being forced out of their jobs.

It's more likely to work alongside them and be another tool for meteorologists like me to use.

Dry lightning occurs when there is enough moisture in the atmosphere to cause a thunderstorm, but the air near the ground is so dry that any possible precipitation evaporates, explained Weather Service meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld.