Critical fire danger is elevated this weekend, but showers are possible next week
Santa Ana winds from the northeast are expected to gust 20 mph to 40 mph in wind-prone areas Saturday as surface high pressure builds in the deserts of Nevada and Utah, where the Great Basin sits, resulting in elevated and critical fire conditions, the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center said.
The National Weather Service office in Oxnard, which manages forecasts for L.A. and Ventura counties, has already issued a fire weather watch in effect from late Saturday night through Sunday afternoon for mountains and some valleys in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Meteorologists will decide Saturday whether the fire weather conditions should be upgraded to a red flag warning.The higher pressure will bring sunny skies and a warming trend this weekend, but models show that the first rain of the season could arrive midweek, followed by a period of cloudy, cool, damp conditions through the end of the week.
The desert-to-sea winds will peak Sunday and will possibly come with a few record high temperatures. The mercury could reach the 80s and low 90s in some coastal and valley areas. Relative humidity may be as low as 8% to 15%, the National Weather Service said., which ended June 30, combined with dead vegetation from years of drought, are of special concern during such weather conditions., according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Some locations west of the mountains could see a 30-degree drop in temperatures from Sunday to Wednesday. Downtown Los Angeles, for example, which could be in the low 90s on Sunday, will probably see a high in the low to mid-60s on Wednesday.
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