The worst of the heat wave during the southern California is expected to land on Thursday, but relief is not yet in sight. Temperatures will remain grilled over the weekend, and another hot spell is scheduled for next week.
Temperatures will reach the triple figures of the San Fernando and Antelope valleys on Thursday, while the interior regions of the County Los Angeles will see temperatures in the 90s, according to the National Weather Service. Lancaster even has a chance to match his previous daily temperature record by 107 degrees, according to the meteorologist of the National Weather Service Devin Black.
“Temperatures will warm up to 4 to 8 degrees above normal Thursday, especially far from the immediate coast,” said the meteorological service. “A slight cooling trend is [forecast for] Friday at weekends, but temperatures will remain above normal far from the immediate coast until next week. »»
A slight weakening of the high pressure system and an increase in terrestrial flow on Friday and Saturday should lower temperatures to three degrees. However, the warmer valleys should always reach 100 degrees. Current models predict that time will warm up on Monday, probably reaching temperatures similar to Thursday.
Thursday, the conditions will be even warmer in the interior Empire and the interior zones of the County of San Diego, where the meteorological service issued regional heat opinions until Friday evening. And in the deserts of southern California, including the Coachella valley and in the Death Valley, an extreme heat warning remains in force, with possible ups to 118.
Although temperatures in the county of the should be just below the heat advice threshold, residents are always invited to limit an intense external activity and to monitor signs of heat sickness.
Getting started on Wednesday when Palm Springs reached 116 degrees, Woodland Hills reached 101 and Lancaster exceeded 100.
The hot weather sustained will continue to dry the vegetation, increasing the risk of starting forest fires and the worsening of the conditions around the shadows that are already burning in the center and southern California, including the largest in the state this year: Gifford’s fire of 96,106 acres in the counties of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.
“We will have fairly gusty terrestrial winds, between 15 and 25 miles per hour, with gusts at 20 to 40 in the interior locations each afternoon and in the evening, the strongest in the corridor i-5, the Valley Antelope and the southwest of the County of Santa Barbara,” said Black. “With this, we will have an extended period of high time risk.”
California is already up to the worst year of forest fires in recent history, driven by several major fires in the center and southern California – notably the Gifford Fire and the January storms devastating in the County of Los Angeles.
Thursday morning, Gifford’s fire was 15%contained, according to federal officials, after hot conditions and continuous fire growth, firefighters challenged firefighters and triggered additional evacuation orders and warnings for rural communities near the National Forest of Los Padres.
Two other large flames were also burning in southern California. Rosa’s fire in the county of Riverside was nearly 1,700 acres and the gold fire had consumed approximately 1,080 acres in the county of San Bernardino.
The writer Grace Toohey contributed to this report.
