As firefighters brace for yet another round of strong Santa Ana winds over the next several days, prompting high wind warnings, dozens of residents and businesses owners impacted by the Eaton Fire attended a community meeting in Pasadena.
Just a few years after the ozone hole was detected via satellite, the industrialized nations of the world, meeting in Montreal in 1987, adopted what is known as the Montreal Protocol.
A winter storm is expected to bring heavy snow, high winds, and hazardous conditions to the mountains of Southern California starting Saturday afternoon.
With the two largest wildfires in Los Angeles County still mostly uncontained, the winds which drove their explosive growth have whipped up once again.
The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region sees about 10 Santa Ana wind events a year on average, typically occurring from fall into January. When conditions are dry, as they are right now, these winds can become a severe fire hazard.
Parts of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties all will be under a red flag warning beginning on Monday morning, the NWS said. The strongest Santa Anas are expected Tuesday morning.
The winds fueling fires in Southern California are beginning to relax, but the forecast calls for their return next week.
A small amount of rain is in the forecast for the region beginning late Friday through early Saturday, a much anticipated change of weather.
Southern California will continue to face "dangerous fire weather conditions" including strong Santa Ana winds ... Santa Monica Mountains, Santa Susana Mountains and western San Gabriel Mountains ...
Wildlife officials may opt to temporarily move the endangered fish out of the mountains once it’s safe ... which scorched habitat in the East Fork of the San Gabriel River, 503 rainbows — in addition to Santa Ana speckled dace, Santa Ana sucker and ...
The Santa Ana winds are expected to pick up again this week, making the Palisades and Eaton fires, among others, more difficult to contain as they continue to rage in Southern California.
Firefighters in battle-scarred Los Angeles County and around Southern California ... the western San Gabriel Mountains, into the Santana Susana Mountains and down to the western Santa Monica ...