About 13,000 customers in Northern California woke up without electricity Friday after Pacific Gas and Electric shut off power to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires amid dry weather and strong winds expected to last through part of the weekend.
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A total of about 20,000 customers could lose power temporarily in the next couple of days, PG&E said in a statement Thursday. During a diablo wind, common in the fall, the air is so dry that relative humidity levels plunge, drying out vegetation and making it ready to burn. The name — “diablo” is Spanish for “devil” — is informally applied to a hot wind that blows near the San Francisco region from the interior toward the coast as high pressure builds over the West.were also possible in Southern California, where another notorious weather phenomenon, the Santa Ana winds, are expected Friday and Saturday.
Winds around greater Los Angeles won’t be as powerful as up north, with gusts between 25 and 40 mph possible in mountains and foothills, said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Los Angeles-area office.But snow is in the forecast for the mountaintops around Lake Tahoe, where up to 2 inches was forecast by Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada. Winds around Lake Tahoe could gust up to 70 mph .
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