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Red flag warnings are in place for Southern California due to Santa Ana winds that will bring gusts up to 65 mph and “extremely rare and dangerous” fire weather conditions. Red flag warnings ...
"The speed with which the Franklin Fire ballooned overnight, driven by these very strong Santa Ana winds and extraordinarily dry chaparral vegetation, is especially alarming given its proximity to ...
The warnings are in effect from Monday through Wednesday night as damaging Santa Ana winds with gusts up to 40 to 65 mph will blow through, according to the National Weather Service in Los Angeles.
"The Santa Ana winds will be problematic in portions of Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara and northwestern Los Angeles counties," Feerick said, "Much of the Los Angeles metro area sits in a bowl-like ...
A strong Santa Ana wind event is setting up across Southern California. A rare Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) alert has been issued for Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
A Santa Ana fog is a derivative phenomenon in which a ground fog settles in coastal Southern California at the end of a Santa Ana wind episode. When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers (1.25-1.8 miles) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the air over the coastal basin is extremely dry, and ...
The FOX Forecast Center noted that unlike typical Santa Ana winds, "this event will have a more easterly direction, which could bring stronger gusts to areas that don’t usually experience them."
The Santa Ana winds combined with low relative humidity down to 10% will create several hours of elevated critical fire weather conditions across the region. Under these conditions, a spark could ...