Temperature records set across Southern California

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Azusa resident Jose Baltazar, 11, joins friends and relatives in a respite from high temperatures as they frolic on a slip-’n’-slide in Azusa. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

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Joe D’Alfio’s black Labrador takes a flying leap into the cool water of Vale Lake near Temecula as the early afternoon temperature peaks at 102 degrees Monday. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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Valentina Bray-Ali, 5, runs through the fountains at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. Valentina and her father left their home in Lincoln Heights thinking they would head to the beach to beat the heat, but stopped at the fountain in Grand Park instead. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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A women stretches while visiting Malibu Pier on Monday. (Christina House / For the Times)

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A surfer rides a wave near the Manhattan Beach pier. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

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From left in the water, friends Alexa Soriano, Michael Shoesmith, Kara McVey and Hillary Alexander spend the day at the beach in Malibu on Monday. (Christina House / For the Times)

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In scorching temperatures, San Bernardino County fire crews pull hoses filled with foam to battle a 75-acre brush fire just south of the 15 freeway at Sierra Avenue near Lytle Creek. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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A helicopter makes a water drop on a hot spot during a 75-acre brush fire just south of the 15 freeway at Sierra Avenue near Lytle Creek in Fontana. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

By Robert J. Lopez

May 13, 2013 6:17 PM PT

Record high temperatures were reached across Southern California on Monday as the region baked in summer-like weather.

Bob Hope Airport in Burbank topped out at 103 degrees, breaking a 100-degree record for the day that had stood since 1976, the National Weather Service said. Lancaster recorded 98, topping by one degree the record set in 1996.

In Ventura County, Camarillo recorded a high of 86. That broke an 83-degree record set in 1996, according to the Weather Service.

In the Inland Empire, Lake Elsinore hit 105, breaking a record of 104 that had stood since 1927, the Weather Service said.

Near the border with Mexico in eastern San Diego County, the high at Campo was 100. The previous record was 95, set in 1984. Along the coast, temperatures were in the mid-70s.

The warm weather was a result of high pressure over the region, the Weather Service said. Temperatures were expected to be about 10 degrees cooler across the area Tuesday as onshore winds from the coast blow across the region.

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