The coming days will bring the necessary breath after dangerous rains throughout the Los Angeles area and its recent burn scars – the National Weather Service predicted Saturday that “most areas will have very low impact in the next few days.”
According to the Meteorological Bureau, “warming and drying trends” are forecast throughout the weekend, which may be the end of the month when rainfall is raining. The service said temperatures are expected to rise to the 1960s, possibly in the 1970s.
“We really hope that today and tomorrow will be dry,” said Saturday morning. “Everything points to very dry.”
The weather was better after the wild week, with the biggest storm in winter hitting Southern California on Thursday and hitting hard – following last month’s devastating wildfires that caused widespread destruction and life-threatening debris flow.
The area saw extensive street flooding and mudslides before the storm subsided. Officials said the loss closed the Pacific Coast Highway, and a member of the Los Angeles Fire Department was swept the road by debris streams and entered the ocean before escaping his vehicle and transporting it to the hospital with minor injuries.
The storm gave some people in Los Angeles and the surrounding cities alike a whip, laying the foundation for the January fire after a long stretch of dryness last year. Scientists say this pattern is intensifying due to climate change.
Super wet weather with dry weather can also lay the foundation for the wildfires torn in Palisades and Altadena last month, with the first to refuel vegetation growing, It is then dried to perfect fire fuel.
Wind, especially the Santa Ana wind that drives the inland air in the coastal areas of Southern California, is also a major factor in fire weather. Lund said there will be winds later next week and there may be some strong gusts of the north end, but the fire is not in the forecast – a silver lining of recent rain.
“We are not too worried about the impact of the fire due to the recent rainfall,” she said.
