86--L.A. Record Set With Aid of Santa Ana Winds
As might have been suspected, the temperature set a record in Los Angeles Civic Center on Friday, reaching 86 degrees as hot Santa Ana winds whipped down out of the deserts.
The previous maximum reading for Feb. 6 was 34 years ago, when it was 84.
Winds were strong below the canyons. Some gusts in the Tehachapis and around the mountains of San Diego County were 60 m.p.h. Wind advisories were also issued for many other Southland mountain areas, where gusts were 20 to 40 m.p.h.
It should be warm again today, according to Cary Schudy of Earth Environment Service, the San Francisco-based weather service, but no higher than the low 80s. “I see a lot of high clouds streaming over Southern California and limiting the afternoon heating,” Schudy said.
Winds should diminish, forecasters said.
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