SANTA MONICA— On Monday, August 17, a major power outage caused kept the businesses along Santa Monica’s Promenade in the dark. The Southern California Edison (SCE) outage individuals and businesses in the 1300 and 1400 blocks of the Promenade, forcing some of the businesses to close until power is restored.
SCE indicated that the power outage was due to equipment problems.
On Tuesday, August 18, CSE had a scheduled outage for Malibu to upgrade equipment between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
August and September are normally the hottest months of the year. Today, temperatures for Malibu and Santa Monica were predicted to range from 79 to 88 degrees.
The hottest day on record for Malibu and Santa Monica was September 27, 2010, when temperatures climbed to 104 and 103 degrees, respectively. The hottest day thus far in 2026 has been 86 degrees on July 29th. It was a very humid day.
