LOS ANGELES – Residents in the South California will face an extreme fire threat on Wednesday as dry conditions overlap with strong Santa Ana winds.

This threat has led the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles to issue a rare “particularly dangerous situation” fire weather warning for parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties from Wednesday through Thursday morning, noting damage wind Gusts of 50 to 80 mph are forecast.

The NWS added that isolated gusts of 80 to 100 mph are possible in the San Gabriel Mountains, which are located north of Los Angeles.

Strong Santa Ana winds coupled with extremely low temperatures humidity and dry vegetation, are creating a situation in which trees and power lines could fall and cause ignition for rapid spread. forest fires.

He Santa Ana windswhich are winds that blow from the Santa Ana Mountains southeast of Los Angeles, affect Southern California every year.

However, the NWS noted that this week Santa Ana winds are expected to be “stronger, more widespread and of longer duration.”

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Residents should expect a high risk of power and public outages. security power outages during this Santa Ana wind event, the NWS said.

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