Three wildfires are spreading rapidly in the suburbs of Los Angeles, forcing evacuations and prompting a state of emergency. Strong Santa Ana winds are fueling the blazes, creating dangerous conditions for firefighters.
Los Angeles wildfires latest: Malibu residents told to get ready to flee - as firefighters say no chance of stopping blazes A state of emergency has been declared in California as wildfires engulf homes in the suburbs of Los Angeles , with three blazes spreading rapidly. More than 30,000 people have been ordered to leave Pacific Palisades, an area popular with celebrities.
Southern California is obviously a dry area and prone to wildfires, but in this instance the fire developed and spread very rapidly due to what are known as Santa Ana winds. These are just one named example of a class of generally strong downslope winds to the lee (and hence in the rain shadow) of a mountain range, generically known as Foehn winds, and including for example the Mistral over southern France, the Chinook over the Rockies and the Scirocco over Sardinia. Such winds are characterised by being warm, due to compressive heating of the air coming down, and dry, as water vapour has generally been rained out when the air was lifted in the first place. It's worth noting that the Foehn effect is the reason for relatively high temperatures over Aberdeen and around Moray, when winds blow across the Grampians from the south and east. In this instance, the winds are being driven by high pressure to the northeast of the area, and low pressure to the south, with the winds peaking later today, before easing fairly rapidly thereafter as the low pressure to the south eases away.Winds of up to 100mph have been fuelling one of the blazes in Los Angeles, a fire official has told Sky News. Margaret Stewart, the public information officer at the LA Fire Department, said the Sylmar fire was already 300 acres in size, and had a rapid rate of growth'because right now we have these extreme winds gusting 50 to 80mph, up to 100mph
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