Batten down the hatches. The National Weather Service has issued a warning for “life-threatening and destructive” winds for parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties beginning Tuesday.
The NWS posted an alert on X Monday with a graphic of areas of greatest concern, with the headline “Extreme Risk – Take Immediate Action”. Areas expected to be most impacted include Pasadena, Burbank, San Fernando, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Simi Valley, Sylmar, Porter Ranch, Altadena, La Crescenta, Malibu as well as the San Gabriel/Santa Susana/Santa Monica mountains and foothills, San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys. NWS indicated the “greatest concern for the highway 118 to 210 corridor from Simi Valley to Claremont.”
The NWS says damaging winds also are expected outside of those areas. Forecasters are warning residents to stay indoors and away from windows and to expect widespread power outages. The weather service is likening the approaching windstorm to the devastating 2011 windstorm that pummeled Pasadena and and San Gabriel Valley foothills with hurricane-force winds that felled thousands of trees, downed hundreds of power lines, displaced scores of residents and left hundreds of thousands without power, some for a week.