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The National Weather Service recorded wind gusts of nearly 90 mph late Monday night in portions of San Diego County. The region has been placed under a High Wind Warning until later this afternoon ...
Red flag warnings will persist for large portion of Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties through 6 p.m. Wednesday, as well as some mountainous areas of ...
FOX 5 San Diego reports the fire broke out near Fashion Valley Mall in a populated part of the city. Neighborhoods behind the hillside were given an evacuation order, but fire crews quickly got ...
The Santa Anas are katabatic winds (Greek for "flowing downhill") arising in higher altitudes and blowing down towards sea level. [7] The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as "a weather condition [in southern California] in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions".
Editor's note: This file captures the news of the California wildfires from Tuesday, Jan. 21. For the latest updates on the LA and San Diego fires, follow USA TODAY's coverage for Wednesday, Jan ...
San Clemente Island: Los Angeles: 13,000: July 24: July 30: Burned more than one-third of San Clemente Island, damaging electrical infrastructure for the naval base there. [76] Nixon: Riverside, San Diego: 5,222: July 29: August 7: Forced evacuations near Anza. Destroyed 23 structures and damaged three. Human caused. [77] [78] Pedro: Mariposa ...
The events included Santa Ana winds of exceptional intensity, with forecasted gusts reaching 50 to 80 miles per hour (80 to 130 km/h; 22 to 36 m/s) in populated areas of the Los Angeles and Ventura counties, including the San Gabriel Valley and the Los Angeles Basin which in prior wind events had been protected by their lower elevations.
Many communities from Santa Barbara through Los Angeles County and into San Diego are under a Fire Weather Warning beginning at 10 a.m. Monday morning until at least 10 p.m. Tuesday night ...