‘You can hear it, you can see it, you can feel it’: Gusty winds, cooler temperatures return to Southern California
Gusty winds are back in SoCal after a bit of a break over the weekend.
When describing the wind Tuesday morning in the San Fernando Valley, KTLA 5’s Carlos Herrera stated simply: “You can hear it, you can see it and you can feel it.”
In their area forecast discussion, the National Weather Service stated that “gusty northerly winds” will be felt throughout the region. Those gusts could reach up to 40 miles per hour in some places, the NWS said.
KTLA 5 meteorologist Henry DiCarlo reiterated that wind speeds will likely be highest in Ventura County – where the Mountain Fire is currently burning – and western L.A. County.
Other communities may experience cooler temperatures due to the shifting wind patterns.
“Often times, we will have strong winds with wind advisories, fire concerns and then we’ll get pockets that are shaded and protected by the winds where we’ll get a freeze advisory,” DiCarlo said. “When the air is still, the cold air has a chance to settle…when you factor in the wind, you may not feel a difference temperature wise.”
“I point that out [because] sometimes, when we talk about windy conditions, we have cold pockets out there, and those cold pockets come from areas where the wind is not an influence,” he added. “And we do see that, as our winds are very isolated.”
A Wind Advisory is in effect for the Santa Clarita Valley, central Ventura County, the Malibu coast and the San Fernando Valley until at least noon Tuesday.
One Porter Ranch resident remarked that while it was “a little cold” on Tuesday morning, the winds, in his opinion, were “light.”
“This is not ‘Porter Ranch wind’ although we had to dodge a few trash cans to get around,” Pat Pope said. “Today is trash day … [the wind] always seems to blow on trash day.”
To top the cold weather and blustery winds off, the coffee shop he was trying to visit Tuesday morning was out of coffee.
On a more serious note, Pope told KTLA that the strong winds keep fire danger on his mind, and while he says his home is built to be fire resistant, he knows that isn’t necessarily a guarantee.
“Our house was built to be fire resistant, but as we saw last week in Ventura County, a whole neighborhood can go up [in flames] just like that,” he said. “Of course we’re worried.”
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