Southern California’s prolonged heat wave is finally forecast to begin letting up Wednesday, but elevated temperatures will continue to bring health and fire risks Monday and Tuesday.
A cooling trend is expected to slowly fall into place Wednesday after a week of scorching temperatures that baked the Southland’s interior and fueled several fast-growing wildfires.
“Wednesday will be a little cooler and then we’ll see a cooling trend into Thursday … and the weekend,” said Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “We’re looking at relatively cool temperatures into next week.”…