California is facing a heat wave after its first snow warning in 20 years

California is facing a record-breaking heat wave and some cities are seeing temperatures 20 degrees above average, according to forecasters, weeks after the state issued its first snow warning.

“We're having a period of above-average temperatures affecting much of interior Northern California,” Katrina Hand, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento, told USA TODAY.

Hand said inland Northern California, which includes cities like Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto, will see temperatures in the high 90s and under 100 degrees.

The temperature in these areas is generally around 80° at this time of year.

“So we’re about 15 degrees above the climatological average,” Hand said.