Weather Forecast for Wednesday, Oct. 14

Slowly building. We are already picking up a slight offshore flow and Santa Ana winds blowing stronger as we push into this evening and especially into tomorrow. Thursday into Friday is where we're going to see these winds peak. And once it comes through, it's not just bringing in fire danger, but it's also heating us up in Southern California. So we have so many alerts to go over. But I'll just give you quickly the headlines before we dive into it. Gearing up for critical fire weather after a beautiful day today. Today is the day to prep. Beach hazard statement continues into Thursday tomorrow where dangerous rip currents and higher than normal surf as well as high tide going to be an issue again only through about tomorrow afternoon. Significant Santa Ana's winds and heat conditions and those conditions will stay in effect at least through the early part of the weekend as possible. Temperatures will be a little warmer each and every day courtesy of the offshore flow. We're anticipating 81 degrees today and here comes the red flag conditions, lower humidity as well as these gusty conditions, red flag conditions in areas through Ventura County, Santa Clarita Valley, out towards the San Gabriel Valley and gusts could reach up to 50 to even 70 miles an hour and this will be in place tomorrow through Friday. If a fire were to ignite it could lead to extreme fire behavior hence the warning. high wind watch will be in place for the IE and portions of Orange County as well the fact that we've got gusts up to 55 miles an hour it could lead to downed trees and power lines so we'll be on watch for that and here's the beach hazard statement as I mentioned high tides today we're predicting about 6.5 to 7 feet just minor coastal flooding and beach erosion and dangerous rip currents are possible and going into Friday as well we do have wind alerts that will also take place beginning tomorrow heat threats 80s and 90s are in the forecast due to those descending winds and compressional heating it's going to heat up all the way down the coast but this is a dry heat but still enough heat to give warning make sure you stay heat safe and wind safe as well coastal areas 77 degrees today with the beach hazard statement temperatures could reach up to as high as 80s and perhaps even a few 90s 90 81 degrees today for inland spots reaching about 91 degrees by tomorrow and we've got numbers for valleys 87 degrees and temperatures will be right around 90s we are watching our mountain communities of course very carefully due to those red flag conditions and wind alerts through Friday and our high deserts at 76 degrees and low deserts if you're heading over to Palm Springs you got to watch those winds those crosswinds could be a problem but once you get to Palm Springs numbers will be mainly in the 80s