Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared across the Los Angeles area.
Southern California will continue to face "dangerous fire weather conditions" including strong Santa Ana winds and extremely low humidity through later this week, forecasters said Tuesday.
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January is typically the middle of the wet season in Southern California, but rainfall has been “historically scarce” for months, the National Weather Service said in a report released Friday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters quickly extinguished several brush fires that erupted Monday in Southern California amid windy and dry conditions. The extreme fire weather is raising the risk of new wildfires like the two major blazes still burning near Los Angeles that started in similar weather nearly two weeks ago.
A slow-moving low-pressure system will linger over the Southwest, bringing steady rain through at least Monday.
It could rain for many hours each day in the middle of next week as a storm takes a swing through Southern California, forecasters say.
The Old Farmer's Almanac, which has been in business since 1792, recently released its spring weather forecast. The outlook? "Warmer-than-normal temperatures for most of the country, with a few exceptions: southern and central California, Desert Southwest, southern Florida, and western Ohio Valley, where it will be near to below normal."
Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. PST Cal Fire data marked the Palisades Fire at 68% containment and the Eaton Fire at 91% containment, listing no other active fires in Los Angeles as a red flag warning is in effect for much the region until Friday evening.
Another round of rain is expected in Southern California next week. Higher rainfall totals are predicted for Wednesday. This is expected to be a warmer storm, so little debris flow is expected, officials said.
A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire fly down a residential street in Altadena, California, on January 8. Robyn Beck / AFP via Anna Fiorentino Freelance writer Earlier this month,