Humidity and warm temperatures are in the Southern California forecast into the weekend before a slight cooldown next week.
Southern California has been in the grip of an extended period of extreme heat, but heat-related weather alerts will expire Friday night with temperatures dropping closer to normal by Tuesday. Expect dangerously hot conditions with a chance of mountain and desert thunderstorms through the weekend.
High temperatures on Thursday reached 98 degrees in Van Nuys, 94 in Burbank and Fullerton, 93 in Santa Ana and 91 in downtown Los Angeles, continuing a run of above-normal temperatures for Southern California…