There is high confidence for a widespread damaging wind and extreme fire weather event on Friday. This will not be like the past few windy days, but rather Friday has the potential for widespread wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph that will be capable of knocking down large tree limbs, utility poles and other structures while threatening to topple high profile vehicles! The very dry conditions and low humidity will also create extreme fire behavior and rapid growth with any ongoing wildfires.
Here are the Key Impacts:
- South southwest wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph will be capable of producing damage to roof tops, trees, utility poles and other vulnerable structures
- Strong cross winds, especially on northwest to southeast oriented roads, will create dangerous driving conditions with the potential for high profile vehicles to topple
- Very dry conditions and low humidity between 5 to 10% will combine with the severe winds to create an extreme fire weather scenario with catastrophic fire growth possible
Please see the attached PDF for more details. We appreciate all of our partners relaying the urgency of this high wind event setting up for Friday!
