Cold Weather Alert Mixes with Fire Danger in SoCal
LOS ANGELES—Another round of gusty Santa Ana winds was causing concerns about heightened wildfire conditions Nov. 19 in Southern California.
The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning that will be in effect until 10 a.m. Nov. 20 in the Los Angeles County mountains and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys.
The weather service called it a “moderate to locally strong” Santa Ana wind event, and predicted gusty northeast winds combined with humidities as low as 8 percent to 15 percent.
The strongest winds were expected Saturday morning, and the weather service said winds would gradually die down Saturday evening, but gusts up to 50 mph were still expected in the mountains, and 45 mph in the valleys….