Winds make cool seem cold in region
Cool Santa Ana winds blew through Southern California on Wednesday, chilling the region while also kicking up lots of dust and causing scattered power outages.
Though no low-temperature records were broken in the Los Angeles area, “it probably felt like it” because of the cold winds, said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist in the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office.
Winds were clocked at 70 mph in the San Gabriel Mountains and 51 mph in the Malibu Hills.
In downtown Los Angeles, temperatures dipped to a low of 47 degrees and reached a high of 67. For the date, the record low is 37 and the high is 87; normal temperatures for Nov. 29 range from a low of 50 to a high of 71.
A low of 34 degrees in Camarillo, in Ventura County, tied a record for the date.
Wednesday’s winds knocked out power lines and utility equipment around the region, leading to outages in pockets extending from Malibu to the Inland Empire, and from Santa Barbara to Orange County.
Southern California Edison said about 1,000 customers were without power at some point during the day. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power cited outages for about 2,200 customers in the San Fernando Valley.
The National Weather Service said that wind advisories would be in effect until noon today in Los Angeles County’s coastal areas. The high winds combined with low humidity prompted officials to post “red flag” warnings for fire danger throughout the region.
The winds and gusts are expected to subside in the afternoon, and temperatures are expected to warm Friday.
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