October 26, 2006, 9am: Thick smoke from the Esperanza fire,
burning north of Hemet, begins to obscure the sky over the San Jacinto Valley.
Photo by Debbie Brookshier.
The Murrieta weather pages are a service of WeatherCurrents. Murrieta, California is located in the Temecula Valley, in southwestern Riverside County, at the junctions of the Interstate 15 and 215 highways.