Daily heat records keep falling

The triple-digit temps are expected to drop — and yes, even rain is a possibility.

Record-breaking heat continued throughout much of Southern California on Sunday but is expected to soon give way to cooler temperatures and possibly rain this week.

Temperatures Sunday reached 100 degrees in downtown Los Angeles, San Fernando and Burbank, breaking decades-old records in each city. Records were also broken in Long Beach, with a high of 99, and at UCLA, where the temperature topped out at 97, breaking the record set in 1971, according to the National Weather Service.

The heat is expected to steadily drop beginning Monday but will remain above normal, said Scott Sukup, a meteorologist with the weather service.

More relief could arrive midweek, with about a 20% chance of showers Wednesday and Thursday, Sukup said.

Over the weekend, thousands of West L.A. residents were left without power in heat-related blackouts.

Relief came early Sunday, when power was fully restored at 12:30 a.m., halting intermittent outages that began in the area Friday, according to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. More than 9,000 customers lost electricity during the peak of the outages that evening.

Despite temporary fixes, up to 6,300 residents remained without power Saturday as crews worked to make permanent repairs.

DWP spokeswoman Carol Tucker said that included fixing electrical equipment that was overheating. But she said operating conditions are back to normal.

“It’s a permanent fix,” Tucker said.