{"id":164487,"date":"2025-08-21T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164487\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:50:14","slug":"heat-wave-intensifies-across-socal-temperatures-likely-to-set-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164487\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave intensifies across SoCal, temperatures likely to set records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Southern California\u2019s worst heat wave of the year<\/a> intensifies and expands across the region Thursday, officials warn the next few days could bring record-breaking high \u2014 and low \u2014 temperatures. <\/p>\n

Widespread heat advisories have been issued across California and the U.S. Southwest, even encompassing much of the often-spared coastline. While daytime temperatures in the 90s and triple digits could set records that will exacerbate health and fire concerns<\/a>, climate scientists warn it\u2019s the overnight highs that might be the biggest concern. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire L.A. Basin, even downtown L.A., [is] not getting below the low 70s,\u201d Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, said in a recent briefing<\/a>. Parts of the San Gabriel Valley will remain above 80 degrees at night, and much of the Palos Verdes peninsula won\u2019t fall below 70, according to the National Weather Service. <\/p>\n

Phoenix is not forecast to drop below 90 degrees over the next few days. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose overnight minimum temperatures will set records,\u201d Swain said. \u201cWe don\u2019t talk about them as much, but they\u2019re hugely consequential from a human health and, in particular, wildfire perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

An extreme heat warning is in place for much of Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, warning of \u201cdangerously hot conditions\u201d through at least Saturday. Temperatures Thursday are expected to hover in the 90s inland from the coast, and somewhere between 100 and 109 degrees in the valleys, lower mountains, farther inland to the Antelope Valley. In the Mojave desert and Coachella Valley, temperatures will climb above 110 degrees. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis dangerous level of heat will pose a threat to anyone without effective cooling and adequate hydration,\u201d the weather service\u2019s Weather Prediction Center warned<\/a>. \u201cHighs into the 90s more broadly across the West will still pose a threat to anyone more sensitive to heat or engaging in strenuous outdoor activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Thursday morning forecast, <\/a>the weather service\u2019s Oxnard office warned: \u201cOnly the beach areas will not have dangerous heat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woodland Hills is forecast to hit 107 on Thursday and downtown Los Angeles may hit 97. It\u2019s forecast to hit 101 degrees in Pasadena.<\/p>\n

Compounding those safety concerns, officials have warned the heat wave could foster an environment ripe for fast-moving wildfires. A red flag warning is in effect for the Los Angeles and Ventura County mountains and foothills through Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf fire ignition occurs, conditions are favorable for extreme fire behavior and rapid fire growth, which could threaten life and property,\u201d the red flag warnings said. <\/p>\n

The dry, hot weather coupled with an unstable atmosphere \u2014 that could bring some weekend thunderstorms \u2014 is a recipe for dramatic fire growth, officials warn. It\u2019s particularly a concern in Southern California, where back-to-back wet years helped increase vegetation growth before this year\u2019s dismal rainy season<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the legacy of this wet-to-dry whiplash event,\u201d Swain said. \u201cThere\u2019s literally more biomass, more potential fuel, for the fires to burn.\u201d <\/p>\n

The high-pressure system driving this heat wave will not only persist over the region for a prolonged period, but is also expected to be \u201cstronger than normal,\u201d Kristan Lund, another weather service meteorologist in Oxnard, said earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The hot weather could be accompanied by some monsoonal thunderstorms in the mountains and deserts by the weekend, which could further elevate fire concerns given the chance for lightning. The storms, if they materialize, may also create localized flooding, destructive winds and debris flows, especially in recent burn scars. <\/p>\n

That pattern will keep the area unstable \u2014 and likely hot \u2014 into next week, when long-range forecasts show mercury could begin falling, said Sam Zuber, a weather service meteorologist in San Diego.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re \u201cprobably going to see a slight cooldown into early next week \u2014 but it\u2019s still going to be above normal,\u201d Zuber said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Southern California\u2019s worst heat wave of the year intensifies and expands across the region Thursday, officials warn…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,23512,94835,5370,47569,33209,2961,224,2444,5337,94834,6231,94836,34416,94837,2503,6280,2450,2452],"class_list":{"0":"post-164487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-degree","11":"tag-desert-southwest","12":"tag-heat-wave","13":"tag-high-temperature","14":"tag-high-pressure-system","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-times","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-low-mountain","20":"tag-national-weather-service","21":"tag-near-record-temperature","22":"tag-next-week","23":"tag-overnight-temperature","24":"tag-peak","25":"tag-region","26":"tag-thursday","27":"tag-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115068261183713889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}