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Due to poor air quality in the surrounding areas the following City facilities are CLOSED today, Friday, January 24, 2025. ️ Parks and recreation centers that are east of the 805. ️ Parkway ...
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
The wildfires destroyed houses of some of the richest people in California, including many homes in Malibu's Carbon Beach, colloquially also known as "Billionaire's Beach". [13] The estimated cost of these wildfires is about 250 to 275 billion US dollars. [ 14 ]
In particular, due to other insurers pulling out of the region, the California FAIR Plan had approximately $6 billion of exposure in the area covered by the Palisades Fire as of January 8, 2025. [86] Air tankers are dropping thousands of gallons of red flame retardant in the hills around Los Angeles as firefighters attempt to limit the ...
Air quality in Los Angeles was at "moderate" levels on Thursday morning, as judged by the EPA's Air Quality Index rating system. Moderate air quality is between 51 and 100, or in the yellow band ...
At perihelion, Earth is roughly 91.4 million miles away from the sun. On average, the planet is separated from the sun by a distance of approximately 93 million miles.
2025 California wildfires: Los Angeles authorities declare a local health emergency due to poor air quality resulting from the ongoing wildfires. [43] [44] The evacuation area in the Palisades Fire is expanded. [45] Governor Newsom calls for an independent investigation into how firefighters have struggled with water supplies while tackling the ...
Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is predicted to be visible from parts of Earth throughout the month. On Jan. 13, the comet is expected to reach perihelion (its closest point to the Sun).