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LOS ANGELES – Powerful wind gusts are blowing crossed parts of Southern California — a wintertime improvement known arsenic a Santa Ana upwind event — astir a twelvemonth to the time that the aforesaid upwind signifier helped spark the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
However, alternatively of past year's bone-dry conditions that fueled the state's worst wildfire disaster, recent grounds amounts of rainfall person saturated soils this year, rendering a weather-driven wildfire menace virtually nonexistent.
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JAN. 10, 2025: Thick fume rises from the Palisades wildfire successful Los Angeles County connected January 10, 2025. Tens of thousands of residents person been forced to flee, portion exigency crews enactment to support homes and captious infrastructure from the advancing flames. ((Photo by SAM GHAZI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images))
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MALIBU, CA - JANUARY 07, 2025: Embers alert successful precocious winds arsenic firefighters conflict winds and flames arsenic aggregate beachfront homes spell up successful flames on Pacific Coast Highway successful Malibu successful the Palisades Fire connected Tuesday, January 7, 2025. ( (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images))
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ALTADENA, CA - JANUARY 07, 2025: A wind-driven occurrence burns successful the Eaton Canyon country connected January 7, 2025 successful Altadena, California. Santa Ana upwind is fueling a brushwood occurrence successful the Eaton Canyon country adjacent Altadena connected the evening of January 7, prompting mandatory evacuations. ((Photo by I RYU/VCG via Getty Images))
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PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - JANUARY 07, 2025: The rising Pacific Palisades occurrence plume is seen done the Sepulveda Pass successful Brentwood, CA during precocious winds successful Pacific Palisades successful Los Angeles, California connected Tuesday, January 7, 2025. ((Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images))
The National Weather Service has issued High Wind Alerts for overmuch of Southern California done Sunday.
A High Wind Warning is successful spot successful the mountains northbound of Los Angeles wherever upwind gusts of up to 70 mph are possible.
(FOX Weather)
Instead of a wildfire threat, the NWS warned that beardown upwind gusts whitethorn origin hazardous driving conditions for high-profile cars and trucks on the confederate portion of the Interstate 5 corridor done the Grapevine.
In addition, sporadic powerfulness outages are imaginable arsenic powerfulness poles are much susceptible to falling erstwhile the crushed is saturated.
FILE - JURUPA VALLEY CA MARCH 14, 2024 Gusty Santa Ana winds toppled this Amazon container motortruck connected the 60 Freeway eastbound modulation to the 15 Freeway north. It was a azygous conveyance mishap with nary injuries Thursday, March 14, 2024.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Santa Ana upwind warnings were archetypal issued connected Jan. 5, 2025, 2 days up of the archetypal reports of the flames that would go the Palisades Fire.
Earlier this week, FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray, who covered the historical wildfire catastrophe arsenic it unfolded, noted that the mountains northbound of Los Angeles were "lush and greenish with vegetation," a stark opposition from a twelvemonth ago.
RECOUNTING THE HEARTBREAKING LOSS CAUSED BY THE DEADLY PALISADES AND EATON FIRES 1 YEAR LATER
Nearly a twelvemonth aft the disaster, reconstruction is inactive conscionable opening for galore victims.
Many assemblage members who Ray spoke with were frustrated by the dilatory progress.
Devastation remains 1 twelvemonth aft confederate California wildfires
One twelvemonth aft the Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed thousands of buildings and near 31 radical dead, demolition inactive remains successful the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. Hundreds of homes are successful the process of being rebuilt, but a batch of symptom and heartbreak remains successful the charred structures of the neighborhood. FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray takes a look astatine wherever things basal now.
In their totality, the wildfires scorched much than 57,000 acres, killed 31 radical and destroyed much than 18,000 structures.
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