Forecasters say weaker winds will hit on Saturday night and Sunday, and that there will be no relief until the county gets rain.
Flames from the Palisades fire burn a residential building on Sunset Boulevard amid a powerful windstorm on Jan. 9, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. The mercurial Santa Ana winds gusted up to 85 mph before dawn Friday in San Diego County’s backcountry. The relative humidity fell below 10%. And the landscape was critically dry.
“I was relieved when I woke up this morning and saw there were no fires here,” said Alex Tardy, a forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Rancho Bernardo. “Everything was in play for something bad to happen. All it would have taken was a spark.”Forecasters say that a weaker round of Santa Ana winds will blow through the county on Saturday night and early Sunday, and the winds will remain offshore well into next week.
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