Southern California welcomed cooler temperatures and spotty rain Saturday as a tropical storm veered off the Pacific Coast and faded, helping put an end to a heat wave that nearly overwhelmed the state's electrical grid.
Thunderstorms were forecast for the Los Angeles region Saturday that could linger in mountainous areas on Sunday. But after Hurricane Kay made landfall in Mexico this week it quickly was downgraded to a
Fire officials warned, however, that Northern California communities are still at risk for a heat wave and wildfire conditions and there is the potential for lightning Sunday in the Northern Sierra. In the foothills east of Sacramento, the Mosquito Fire spread to at least 51 square miles Saturday, threatening 3,6000 homes in Placer and El Dorado counties and blanketing the region in smoke.
In Southern California, officials in coastal cities posted warning signs and made sandbags available to residents, fearing flooding. Minor flooding was reported in a beach parking lot and some local roads in parched desert communities around Palm Springs. "It's been a wild, wild week of weather," French said, while sending a disc whizzing through the unusually quiet park."You just kind of have to accept the weather is the weather and live your life regardless of what is going on."
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.
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