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From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 17 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5]The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
Sunday was the third wettest February day on record and tied for the 10th wettest day for any time of year since record keeping began in 1877, the National Weather Service said. (The wettest day ...
NOAA Weather Radio (NWR), also known as NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards, is an automated 24-hour network of VHF FM weather radio stations in the United States which broadcast weather information directly from a nearby National Weather Service office. Its routine programming cycle includes local or regional weather forecasts, synopsis, climate ...
Mudslides, evacuations and water rescues were reported across Southern California Monday as heavy rain inundated the region. Videos showed cars underwater and floating away in parts of San Diego ...
Navy Base San Diego, south of downtown, reported flooding in the late morning as a thick cell of precipitation moved over the area and put multiple streets and Interstate 15, which leads to Las ...
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
On August 20, downtown Los Angeles and San Diego each recorded its wettest single summer day on record (June through August) with 2.48 in (63 mm) and 1.82 in (46 mm) of precipitation, respectively. Palm Springs recorded 3.18 in (81 mm), also a single summer day record amount, [ 112 ] or 69% of its average annual rainfall. [ 3 ]
[1] [7] [5] Santa Ana Canyon and Santa Ana River, the old Spanish land grant Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, and the town of Santa Ana are all so named because the Portolá expedition entered the river valley on Saint Anne's feast day in 1769. [34] Newspaper references to the name Santa Ana winds appear as far back the 1870s and 1880s. [13]