Unusually high temperatures for this time of year in Los Angeles will grip the region in the days before the Super Bowl — and could set a record for the warmest day ever on which the big game has been played.
Visitors and football fans coming to Southern California to cheer their teams to victory may be amazed at how warm it is for this time of year, and they should be, because this weather is unusual.
Alex Tardy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego says that from Wednesday through Sunday, when the big game will be played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, temperatures are expected to be 15 to 20 degrees above average, with temperatures reaching the 90s in some places.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the unusual heat event has not only generated a heat advisory for parts of the region, but it can pose hazards for those visitors from colder weather states not accustomed to it.
Additionally, the hot and dry conditions will bring elevated fire danger, especially with dry fuels that haven’t seen any rain for the last five weeks.
While warmer weather isn’t uncharacteristic of Southern California, the fact that temperatures are expected to be 15 to 20 degrees above normal for this time of the year prompted the warning, the NWS explained.
Luckily, for the players and fans inside the stadium, the heat won’t be a factor because SoFi Stadium, billed as an indoor-outdoor arena, is able to maintain a controlled temperature inside the venue.
This will be the 13th Super Bowl played in California and the eighth to be played in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Almanac. The city has hosted the third-highest number of Super Bowls behind Miami and New Orleans.
Super Bowl 52, when the Philadelphia Eagles faced off against the New England Patriots at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, was the coldest game on record. While the temperature hovered around 70 degrees F inside the domed stadium, the low for that day was 6 degrees below zero, according to AccuWeather.com.
