Climatologists say the odds are that this year will be the hottest on record, based on a resurgent El Niño in the Pacific and global warming. Considering that a new temperature record for Los Angeles County was set last summer — 119 degrees at Pierce College in the West Valley, where the highs exceeded 100 for three weeks — that's saying something. "We are going to suffer," Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, told the Daily News. "Last summer was a preview of coming attractions."
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