Santa Maria had already broken its daily heat record by noon Thursday, marking the third consecutive day of record-breaking temperatures.
A heat advisory remains in effect across Santa Barbara County until 8 p.m. Friday as more unusually hot weather is expected to push temperatures into the upper 80s and low 90s, according to the National Weather Service.
While much of the region is expected to see its hottest temperatures Thursday, Friday will remain quite warm before temperatures begin easing over the weekend, according to Rose Schoenfeld, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard…