In early January, an inside slider moved across the Great Basin, producing gusty north to northeast winds across the mountains of Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Automated sensors reported wind gusts as high as 67 MPH.
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The episode as NWS LOX wrote it up.
In early January, an inside slider moved across the Great Basin, producing gusty north to northeast winds across the mountains of Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Automated sensors reported wind gusts as high as 67 MPH.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 31, 10:05 PM PST, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 1005 PM PST SUN DEC 31 2006 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-WED)...WEAK UPPER TROF MOVING THRU THE DISTRICT THIS EVENING. SOME SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THE TROF AND INCREASING NORTHERLY OFFSHORE GRADIENTS HAS RESULTED IN GUSTY WINDS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF THE SBA S COAST AND MOUNTAINS AND THE VTU/L.A. MOUNTAINS. THE GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO MON MORNING OVER THE SBA S COAST AND MOUNTAINS...AND INTO EARLY MON AFTERNOON ELSEWHERE. THESE AREAS ARE UNDER A WIND ADVISORY AND THE INFO ON THIS CAN BE FOUND WITH THE PRODUCT LAXNPWLOX. SOME STRATOCU HAS PERSISTED OVER PORTIONS OF SBP AND SBA COUNTIES THIS EVENING. THESE CLOUDS SHOULD PERSIST OVERNIGHT...AND EXTEND INTO THE N MOUNTAIN SLOPES AS WELL. SOME CLOUDS WERE ALSO PERSISTING ALONG PARTS OF THE L.A. COAST AND SHOULD LINGER FOR A WHILE OVERNIGHT...BUT THE INCREASING NORTHERLY GRADIENT MAY HELP TO PUSH THESE FURTHER S BY MORNING. OTHERWISE...PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PREVAIL OVER MUCH OF THE DISTRICT THRU THE NIGHT. THE UPPER TROF WILL MOVE INLAND AND STRENGTHEN INTO AN UPPER LOW OVER ARIZONA ON MON. THE UPPER LOW WILL THEN MOVE S ON NWRN MEX FOR TUE WHILE SOME UPPER RIDGING BUILDS IN OVER CENTRAL CA. UPPER RIDGING WILL PERSIST OVER SRN CA TUE NIGHT AND WED. THE PROXIMITY OF THE UPPER LOW WILL PROMOTE OFFSHORE WINDS TO TURN NE AND STRENGTHEN OVER THE DISTRICT MON AFTERNOON AND MON NIGHT...THEN PEAK TUE MORNING. THE WRF IS STRONGER IN THE LOW LEVEL WIND FIELD COMPARED TO THE GFS...BUT IT STILL LOOKS LIKE WIDESPREAD VERY GUSTY WINDS WILL MOVE INTO VTU/L.A. COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY BELOW AND THRU THE PASSES AND CANYONS. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS OVER THE L.A. COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS...A HIGH WIND WATCH IS IN EFFECT MON EVENING THRU TUE AFTERNOON (PLEASE SEE LAXNPWLOX FOR DETAILS). THE WINDS WILL ALSO BE STRONG OVER THE VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS OF VTU COUNTY AND A WIND ADVISORY WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED FOR THESE AREAS AS WELL. OF ADDITIONAL CONCERN IS THE STRONG WINDS COMBINED WITH MUCH LOWER HUMIDITIES WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVER PORTIONS OF L.A. COUNTY...AND IT APPEARS THE WATCH WILL LIKELY BE UPGRADED TO A RED FLAG WARNING BY MID MORNING MONDAY. THE VTU COUNTY VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS MAY BE INCLUDED IN THE WARNING AS WELL. PLEASE SEE LAXRFWLOX AND LAXFWFLOX FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND INFORMATION ON FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. FAIR WEATHER CAN BE EXPECTED TUE NIGHT AND WED WITH MUCH WEAKER OFFSHORE WINDS. TEMPS MON AND TUE WILL BE GENERALLY A FEW DEGREES BELOW NORMAL IN MOST AREAS...THEN WARM TO NEAR NORMAL FOR WED. ...FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... .LONG TERM (THU-SUN)...BOTH GFS AND ECMWF ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT ANOTHER POSITIVELY TILTED TROUGH WILL DROP DOWN FROM THE NORTH BRINGING A RELATIVELY WEAK COLD AND QUICK MOVING FRONT THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA THURSDAY. HEIGHTS AND THICKNESS LEVELS DROP SIGNIFICANTLY AS TEMPS DROP INTO THE LOWER TO MID 60S IN MOST AREAS. BEST CHANCE OF PRECIP WILL BE N OF POINT CONCEPTION AND SNOW LEVELS SHOULD BE FAIRLY LOW WITH THIS NEXT SYSTEM. UPPER LVL HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD IN FROM THE WEST AND ANOTHER OFFSHORE EVENT LOOKS IN STORE FOR THE WEEKEND AS STRONG SFC HIGH BUILDS INTO THE GREAT BASIN. TEMPS WILL REBOUND ON FRI THROUGH SUN WITH NEAR NORMAL OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS FOR NEXT WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...WEAK MARINE LAYER WITH SPOTTY PATCHY STRATUS LINGERING AROUND OFF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST SHOULD BRING OCCASIONAL MVFR CIGS TO THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. KPRB KSBP AND KSMX WILL CONTINUE TO SEE OCCASIONAL MVFR CIGS THROUGH 06Z...THOUGH IT MAY BE OFF AND ON AGAIN BETWEEN 03Z AND 08Z. KSBA WILL HAVE LLWS THROUGH THE NIGHT...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VERY BRIEF GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS REACHING THE SURFACE. GUSTY NORTHERLY CONDITIONS WILL BE SEEN AT KBUR AND KVNY AFTER 16Z WITH LLWS POSSIBLE. && .LOX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH WIND WATCH (SEE LAXNPWLOX). FIRE WEATHER WATCH (SEE LAXRFWLOX). WIND ADVISORY (SEE LAXNPWLOX). SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY (SEE LAXCWFLOX). HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK (SEE LAXSRFLOX). COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT (SEE LAXCFWLOX). && PUBLIC...SIRARD/KAPLAN AVIATION...SIRARD/KITTELL
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
4 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Warm Springs RAWS sensor reported north to northeast winds gusting to 67 MPH.
The Whitaker Peak RAWS sensor reported north to northeast winds gusting to 67 MPH.
The Camp 9 RAWS sensor reported north to northeast winds gusting to 58 MPH.
The Malibu Hills RAWS sensor reported northerly wind gusts as high as 62 MPH.
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