AccuWeather's Ken Clark reports of the wildfire threat continues to be critical as Santa Ana winds remain active as of Jan. 14.
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00:00And joining me again is Acura, the California expert, Ken Clark. Ken, thanks again for being
00:04with us this morning. Let's talk about still the current situation ongoing here, at least
00:10through about the next 24 hours. We still have very critical fire weather going on right on
00:15into tomorrow. We got about another 24 to 36 hours of that kind of conditions with very low humidity
00:22and the threat for gusty strong winds across at least parts of the Southland, Southern California.
00:28Now, these winds are going to be mainly confined to the typical Santa Ana places,
00:33which will run from near Malibu on up through Ventura County, up in the Santa Clarita Valley,
00:38and across the Inland Empire, and also all the mountains of Southern California,
00:43right on into tomorrow. This will ebb and flow a little bit. We don't see as much wind right now
00:48along coastal areas as we had yesterday, but that will pick up as we go through the morning hours
00:53of today into this afternoon, die down a little bit this evening, come back up again later tonight
00:57and tomorrow morning. And Ken, it's our job here to, of course, give the currents and what could
01:02be still a very dangerous fire risk across the region today. But it's also great to give the
01:07good news when we see it. And that was the first thing you wanted to talk about when you popped on
01:12just a few minutes ago. And so tell us when we look ahead here through the rest of the week,
01:16what you're seeing in the pattern. I think everybody across Southern California needs
01:20a little bit of good news to go along with all that's been going on for over a week now.
01:24The good news is that this pattern is changing, and will start to change noticeably Thursday
01:30afternoon with the return of some humidity in the air, especially on coastal areas in the afternoon.
01:36And by Friday in the weekend, everyone's going to be cooler, everyone's going to have light winds,
01:40everyone's going to have higher humidity, and we ought to be able to get any fires a lot more
01:46under control than they are right now. And hopefully we won't have any more to deal with
01:50between now and let's say tomorrow afternoon evening. So we have good news coming up,
01:54higher humidities, lower temperatures, and much less wind by Friday in the weekend.
01:59That is some excellent news. Now the only extra thing that we would want to add into that is some
02:03precipitation. I know our long-range team here at AccuWeather has been looking at minimal rain
02:08chances through the end of the month. So in the short term, not all that great with rainfall.
02:12But we could see a change in the pattern that could bring us some more, a better chance of
02:16rain at least in the month of February. Yeah, the only good news is I have a bad news in the
02:21long range is that we don't expect any rain anytime soon of any importance whatsoever,
02:27at least through the end of the month, probably to start off February as well. But at least we're
02:31having the everything else improve. And as for any additional Santa Ana wind events,
02:37they're possible, but not through the weekend after we get through this one.
02:41AccuWeather California expert Ken Clark, not only do we appreciate all your information,
02:45but also the good news here and the more favorable conditions for fighting these fires
02:50across Southern California. We appreciate it and stay safe today. You're very welcome.