Southern California is about to get much hotter, with temperatures potentially reaching 105 degrees and an extended stretch of elevated fire weather conditions expected this week.
After a brief cooling trend, a ridge of high pressure is building over the region and will send temperatures climbing above normal, KTLA 5 forecaster Kirk Hawkins said Saturday morning.
“We had the cooling trend. Unfortunately, that’s over,” Hawkins said. “A warming trend now underway.”
The National Weather Service is also warning that the warmup could bring moderate heat risk away from the immediate coast beginning Tuesday, along with widespread elevated fire weather conditions across interior Southern California beginning Monday…