Strong and dry blasts known as Diablo and Santa Ana winds are expected in California. Pacific Gas and Electric has begun cutting power.
. PG&E has also agreed to pay billions of dollars to settle damage claims stemming from a series of deadly fires sparked by its power lines between 2015 and 2018.were looking at its equipment as a possible cause of the Zogg fire that started last month in Shasta CountyThe National Weather Service has issued red flag warnings for large swaths of California, including all of Los Angeles and Ventura counties except for the Antelope Valley, as well as the entire Bay Area.
A much drier air mass was also moving in. Although the Bay Area recorded relative humidity of about 100% Sunday morning, the winds were expected to cause that value to plummet throughout the afternoon and overnight, when humidity values usually increase, Dykema said. Forecasters say the weather shift is a result of a cold low-pressure system high in the atmosphere that’s moving down into the Great Basin, causing a change in air pressure that generates winds.“It’s kind of the typical weather setup that produces these types of events in the autumn months,” Dykema said.
In Southern California, the winds were expected to pick up late Sunday night in the mountains and spread down to the valleys and coast through the pre-dawn hours, blowing most strongly between 4 a.m. and noon Monday, said Joe Sirard, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. Another round of winds was expected Monday night into Tuesday, he said.
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