Summer heat

The midafternoon sun beats down on a Tucson worker as he adjusts signals at a road-widening project at North La Cañada Drive and West Orange Grove Road.

Despite our brief reprieve from triple-digit temperatures, they'll be headed back to town any day now.

Temperatures will progress as the week goes on, with some of the year's hottest high temps possible on Friday.

High: 99

Low: 68


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