California Wildfires to Reignite with High Winds Again

AccuWeather California weather expert Ken Clark explains how Santa Ana winds are expected to create extreme fire danger again this week, when the most dangerous time will be, and why southern California is so dry.

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[dshepherd]

What is this weather guy talking about?? Palisades has been 11% contained for days, which hasn’t stopped it from burning like an inferno. Now it’s a whopping 14% contained, & here come the 40-50mph wind gusts. How is this better or good news?

[skiddymark]

dont forget crews from Mexico and crews and Air Tankers from Canada too!

[DLWELD]

Miss Mayor, why does dry, and fire prone LA, not have bigger reservoirs? Why was the one Palisades reservoir empty for "cover repairs" in the height of the fire season?

Miss Mayor, another question, why were the record rainfalls of the past 3 years dumped into the ocean?

[brendamartin]

I agree about the usual rain. We never got it this year

[hamidpapi]

God, send rain to the sky of California.

[michellesmith]

I thought power would have been cut with winds that high. Guess i really don't know much about california fires.

[imanproperti]

The view is very beautiful, America must compensate for the losses it has experienced, don't act as a hero to help Israel fight, it is better to have funds to repair the damage suffered due to the fire.

[GeraldMantel]

LA fires : Amerika's version of a "controlled" burn.

[KimKemp-pe]

Don't forget to grab a few security cameras and servers and other things so you can take them to a few spots to view! Take it somewhere then they make copies and take to a few other spots that feel a little lonely.

[brendamartin]

I've never seen the East wind blow longer than 3 days. This is so sad

[obsoletepowercorrupts]

There was some fire elsewhere in the World way back, and fire retardant was placed in rows, making a "sandwich" of vegetation that has no fire-retardant such that it could be burned before the weather changed, thusly attempting to create a fire-break in the controlled-burn, but it means the fire-retardant _(depending on the geology of an area)_ is on vegetation that cannot be made wet _(because it would wash off fire-retardant and cause concentrated clumps and 'clean' parts with erratic results potentially)_ and so the theory is that a gamble is taken in a short window of time for the weather that might change, including hot soil and rock which might cause thermals, or suppress thermals _(beyond standard wind forecast direction or speed)._ Soil and carbon and corrosive salt from ash are also areas in fires in the past which water would not always be used on because it forms a sort of 'kiln ' _(for want of a better word)_ over burning vegetation starving oxygen and making a charcoal which is then dried _(protected from water)_ ready to ignite, and taking a digger _(or bulldozer)_ to it runs the risk of being too slow and of course dangerous. Rust from saline iconic exchange breaks things.
My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.

[elizastar]

I guess Hollywood shouldn't have been mocking God so gleefully.

[qroadside]

Does anyone else hear Bevis’s voice in there head saying, “Fire, Fire hah ha fire’s cool!

[nomudnolotusnodragonnogold]

Man made weather.
The powers that be can make it rain....

[KimKemp-pe]

Get more fighting the fires. Them also. Keep talking to those drones and recording your conversation if can.

[LingUniqù]

improvement to be applied- WATER PLEASE

[Lonniemaslin]

HOW MANY FIRE FIGHTERS HAVE NO ONE IS ASKING OR

[KimKemp-pe]

Well changing all the PRIVACY setting at the libraries in neighborhood and the restaurants nearby to "sick mode" is what is silly.

[akshonclip]

Rain just makes the chaparral grow. It does nothing for preventing fires. If anything it makes it worse

[Post-rv]

Contained or burned down. It wont burn down twice in a week.