00:00can not completely in the clear just yet. There still is an elevated fire risk
00:04across some parts of Southern California today. Those are now mainly in the
00:08mountains where the relative humidities today will stay very low. The good news
00:13is if you notice that flag it was blowing from a different direction than
00:17it was last week and even earlier this week. It's blowing from off the ocean
00:21already and that means we're starting to see an onshore push of winds that's
00:26going to bring in higher humidity even starting this afternoon, but very,
00:30very noticeable by late tonight, tomorrow and into the weekend. Big
00:36return of moisture. The moisture is very, very necessary to continue to
00:40help the firefighters fight. These fires that are left over across the
00:44area should be able to get a really good handle on things through the
00:48weekend and the cooling trend as well. Temperature is going to be anywhere
00:52between five and 10 degrees below normal by friday and the weekend. And
00:57we talked about this a bit yesterday, but we're gonna see some clouds even
00:59mentioned that some could see the marine layer return as we head into
01:02this pattern. I was expecting patchy low clouds and fog to be a lot of the
01:07coast tomorrow morning, widespread coastal and even some valley low clouds
01:11by the weekend. And as even on by sunday, there still could be some
01:16around. So we're looking for lots of good things for the weather coming up
01:20here and that's all good news. That is. But everyone's question probably next
01:24is, well, can this happen again? Will there be more wind returning? I know
01:29here in Accra that we were saying there is a chance that we're going to get
01:32some more Santa Ana winds early next week. You've been taking a closer look
01:35as well.
01:37I've been toiling over all the computer models here over the last 24 hours
01:41and trying to decide if there's a trend in one way or the other because we've
01:45had great disagreements in our model saying from a big Santa Ana event to
01:50very little Santa Ana event. And right now it's really kind of split among
01:55these models. So I just don't think we're in a spot say yes, it's going to
01:59happen for sure or no, it's not gonna happen for sure. We're gonna have to
02:03keep watching things and watching the trend of these models. That's always
02:07the case. You know, individual models may change over time, but the trends
02:11of these models are what is important. So as we go through the next couple of
02:15days, we ought to be able to get a better handle on these things. But
02:18right now we have to be very careful early next week, especially in the
02:21Tuesday Wednesday time period that if it's going to occur, that's when it's
02:24going to occur. And when we look ahead for any kind of precipitation, I know
02:30the newest drought monitor just came in and as no surprise, we are dealing with
02:34areas of extreme drought across southern California. Yeah, it's just
02:40this. I've never seen anything like this. I think this January could end up
02:44being the driest, uh, January ever in Los Angeles. Easily zero rain so far
02:49in January. Very little rain since last April all across southern California.
02:54Uh, the dryness of the ground is just incredible for this time of year. When
02:58we're supposed to have 56 inches of rain by now, we have less than a
03:02quarter inch of rain since the beginning of the rainfall season, which
03:06October 1st. So it's very, very dry. We don't see any important rain coming for
03:11the next 10 days, at least probably getting us through the end of the month.
03:15Yeah, accurate. They're California expert Ken Clark. We appreciate your
03:18expertise this morning and looking forward to at least a little bit of a
03:22reduced fire danger through the coming days.
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