Aug 30, 2009 7:54 am US/Pacific
SoCal Temperatures Reach Triple Digits
LOS ANGELES (CBS) ―
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Temperatures across Southern California Sunday were expected to push past 100 degrees. (File Photo)
AP
Valley and inland temperatures were expected to push past 100 degrees across most of Southern California again Sunday.
Temperatures in the San Fernando Valley were likely to top out around 105 degrees and inland areas would be nearly as hot, according to the National Weather Service.
Even temperatures in parts of the Santa Monica and the San Gabriel mountains were expected to reach 103 degrees. Santa Clarita could hit 105.
Winds out of the west and southwest were expected to peak in the afternoon at 10-20 mph.
The extreme heat was of no help to firefighters working to contain the 20,000-acre-plus "Station Fire" burning in the Angeles National Forest. Fire lines extended from La Canada Flintridge across the crest of the range to Acton.
"The Station Fire will be very tricky," Curt Kaplan of the NWS in Oxnard said. "We may see a tad of cooling at the beaches, but that's not really where we need it."
As the fire moved toward Acton, he said, the onshore winds may "siphon" through the canyons and aggravate containment efforts. Some mountain areas where firefighters were working saw gusts up to about 35 mph, he said, while emphasizing that the wind "is not really the story."
"It's really based on the high temperatures and the low relative
humidities, especially overnight," he said. Typically, the humidity rises overnight, but Kaplan said the past few nights had been unusually dry."
Closer to the coast, temperatures were expected to be in the 80s and 90s, will beach highs in the upper 70s. Water temperatures in Santa Monica Bay were around 70 degrees.
Cooler temperatures were expected Monday.
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