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‘Significant change’ in Sun’s activity may come as good news for sky watchers ahead of next year’s solar eclipse
11:52 a.m. Los Angeles County sent the first evacuation orders to a swath of the Palisades: "LEAVE NOW." Around noon. More than 7,500 miles away in Accra, Ghana, where it was around 8 p.m., Los ...
Los Angeles got more than its share of rain this winter and spring but summer appears to be getting an early start in the San Fernando Valley and other areas of ...
[15] [14] The airport was renamed Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. [17] The temporary terminals remained in place for 15 years but quickly became inadequate, especially as air travel entered the "jet age" and other cities invested in modern facilities. Airport leaders once again convinced voters to back a $59 million bond on June 5, 1956.
The greatest rainfall in 24 hours was 5.68 inches (144.3 mm) on March 2, 1938. [42] At Los Angeles International Airport, the highest recorded temperature was 110 °F (43 °C) on September 26, 1963. The lowest temperature was 27 °F (−3 °C) on January 4, 1949.
The airport is located in Burbank, and serves the heavily populated areas of northern Los Angeles County. It is the closest airport to the central and northeastern parts of L.A. (including Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles), Glendale, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley, and the western San Gabriel Valley.
The fires that have raged across Los Angeles for the last week and a half have consumed an area nearly the size of Washington, D.C., resulting in at least 25 deaths so far, authorities said.
In 1930, the facility was renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport, and mostly served general aviation. The facility was pressed into service as a military airfield during World War II. The airport started its conversion into a major passenger airport in 1946, and in 1949 became Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The current U-shaped ...