Hot temperatures continue for the next several days in Southern California until a cooling trends move into the area this weekend.
The conditions for the Artemis II spacecraft's return to Earth have to be as precise as possible, and NASA's meteorologists are relying on the West Coast's reliably perfect weather to welcome Orion home.
Leslie Lopez has been named ABC News meteorologist after more than a decade at ABC7 Los Angeles.
An early season heat wave is set to sweep across Southern California this week with some areas in Los Angeles County expected to push close to 100 degrees.
The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat watch that is scheduled to go into effect Monday across most of Southern California.
Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.