Temperatures will spike today and Saturday, reaching triple-digit territory in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys this weekend. The high in Downtown L.A. today is forecast to be 87 degrees, around 10 degrees higher than yesterday. It will rise to 90 tomorrow. The warming trend will be more pronounced in the San Fernando Valley. Woodland Hills should reach a high of 98 today, a 6-degree rise over Thursday’s highs, and 103 Saturday. A cooling trend will start on Sunday.
According to the National Weather Service in Oxnard, the higher heat results from an upper-level high pressure system building off the coast, a weakening of onshore flow and an increasingly shallow marine layer. There’s no critical fire risk as a result of this change in weather. Higher heat always elevates the risk of wildfire. But forecasters are not expecting particularly strong winds or excessive dryness.
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