Hot Weather to Linger Today and Tuesday
Temperatures broke the 100-degree mark throughout much of the San Fernando Valley on Sunday. The heat is expected to continue today and Tuesday, with cooler weather returning later this week.
“It’s well above normal,” said Rob Krohn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “You usually don’t see this in October.”
High temperatures Sunday were 101 in Northridge, 102 in Woodland Hills and Van Nuys, and 95 in Burbank. None of these were records for the date, although the Woodland Hills mark was only a degree shy of the record 103 set in 1964, said Curtis Brack, a meteorologist with WeatherData, another weather-monitoring group.
A high-pressure system over most of the western United States--from here to Texas and Montana--is dominating the weather in Southern California, said Bill Hoffer, a National Weather Service spokesman.
The heat wave is not due to the usual cause of hot weather at this time of year--Santa Ana winds. That’s because the high-pressure system is moving slowly to the east, away from the ocean, Hoffer said, counteracting any chance for Santa Ana conditions.
The Santa Anas are hot, dry winds that generate from interior regions and blow toward the ocean. The wind patterns currently predominant are the more typical kind that blow to the ocean during the day and toward land at night.
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