As recovery efforts continue in Southern California, Santa Ana winds are expected to return, increasing the fire risk and prolonging containment efforts in the region this week as of Jan. 20.
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00:00Ken Clark last week I said you know we'd love to have you on here Ken but anytime we're talking
00:04about you were talking about big problems in California and it's the lack of rainfall it's
00:08the return of the damaging winds. Let's begin with the change that we had over the weekend
00:14the containment numbers coming up and then what what we are forecasting for today.
00:18Certainly it was a good weekend for the firemen and recovery efforts going on. Humidities were
00:24higher we saw very little in the way of wind of importance but things have changed are changing
00:29very rapidly in fact I'm seeing the Santa Ana's already beginning to develop across area mountains
00:35I had a wind gust a little before seven o'clock pacific time of 68 miles an hour up and through
00:41the San Gabriel mountains. These winds will increase as we go through the morning into
00:46the early afternoon come down to the surface we expect as strong of a wind event as we had two
00:51weeks ago that's the unfortunate nature very dangerous situation coming up damage is likely
00:58trees and power lines coming down there's going to be power shutoffs there's going to be travel
01:04problems as well everything we had with the last big wind event is going to happen again this time
01:11let's hope let's hope we don't have any fires break out. From a weather standpoint anything
01:16different from this particular pattern than what we were dealing with some two weeks ago?
01:21It's hard to imagine this but actually the air is going to be a little drier with this
01:26the relative humidity by late tonight tomorrow are going to drop down into the low single digits
01:31to five percent area dew points going to get down below zero in parts of the inland empire
01:37over toward Burbank area very very unusual that shows you how dry the air is. Yeah all right when
01:43we look ahead here could be more winds returning as we head into the end of the week but then also
01:49looking ahead to any kind of precipitation. Winds do die down some Tuesday night and Wednesday and
01:56fire weather remains very high during that time period winds come back up again for late Wednesday
02:01night and Thursday somewhat then we are looking at an increased chance of some rain by Saturday
02:07through Monday and this could be significant in the way of amounts showers maybe even a
02:13thunderstorm and low snow levels we can see snow levels down to three four thousand feet
02:18by the end of the weekend. So there could be a chance here for some changes in the pattern yet
02:23again as we head into the weekend and in two parts of next week we'll we'll leave you with a closer
02:29look here at the 70 forecast across Los Angeles we're talking about 80s by the time we head into
02:34Thursday. Yeah and it's going to really warm up Wednesday and Thursday widespread upper 70s to
02:41even mid 80s across the L.A. basin by Thursday. All right Ken we appreciate your expertise at
02:47your weather California expert Ken Clark thanks again for joining us and we hopefully don't have
02:52to check in with you too much but we know that this pattern there's not gonna be much change
02:56until we get significant rainfall across Southern California.