Southern California Faces Record Heat and Braces for Wildfires
A days-long heat wave rolling across parts of the US West is expected to ramp up wildfire risk, prompting California to pre-deploy crews as record-dry vegetation potentially acts as kindling for blazes.
Temperatures in Southern California are expected to spike into the 90s and 100s Fahrenheit (32-38 Celsius) by Thursday and remain stubbornly high into the weekend, possibly breaking daily temperature records in some areas, according to the US Weather Prediction Center. That heat — combined with plummeting humidity and a chance of thunderstorms resulting from unstable air over nearby mountain ranges — will create dangerous conditions for brush fires to start or spread.
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