The National Weather Service warns of dangerous Santa Ana winds with gusts exceeding 75 mph, posing risks of damage and wildfires across Southern California.
Forecast maps have illustrated the areas on Southern California most at risk from a windstorm this week. Santa Ana winds are set to bring dangerous conditions to Southern California, with the National Weather Service (NWS) warning of a 'life threatening' and 'destructive' windstorm that would impact most of the Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
A forecast map from the NWS Forecast Office in San Diego showed particularly high gusts were expected just east of Irvine, predicting peak gusts over 75 miles per hour. Similarly high gusts were forecast to the north of Los Angeles. An NWS post outlined several of the areas of greatest risk. These included Pasadena, Burbank, San Fernando, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Simi Valley, Sylmar, Porter Ranch, Altadena, La Crescenta, and Malibu. Other areas of 'greatest concern' included the Highways 118/210 corridors, San Gabriel/Santa Susana/Santa Monica Mountains and Foothills, and the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys. The NWS said that damaging winds were still expected outside of these areas. A fire weather outlook map from the NOAA/NWS showed that portions of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties were deemed as extremely critical fire weather area, and surrounding portions of Southern California were deemed critical or elevated. The service said that 'extreme fire behavior appears likely should ignitions occur. Extremely critical fire weather is most likely for portions of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. With high pressure extending farther south than on Monday, critical fire weather will extend to the San Diego vicinity as well.'Even though the upper-level winds will weaken along with the offshore gradient, elevated to critical fire weather is expected to continue into Thursday morning. The NWS previously said the windstorm was anticipated from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning across Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Power outages were likely, according to the servic
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