Powerful winds led to thousands of homes and businesses having no power this past Thanksgiving in Southern California, with some winds ranging from up to 70 miles per hour.
The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings yesterday, as wind speeds reached high levels that sparked danger in the dryer areas of California regions. CNN Weather reports that red flag warnings are only issued when an area is experiencing conditions that can easily start or expand fires. This, in particular, can happen when winds are powerful and humidity in an area is low.
Red flag warnings were issued to several California counties including, Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego. The news outlet reports that more than 70,000 homes and businesses lost power during the Thanksgiving holiday, and more than 17 million people endured the struggle into Friday.
According to PowerOutage.US., there were still 69,512 that didn’t have power, and Southern California Edison said it broke off more than 60,000 of its customers on Thursday as wind speeds increased.
“The critical fire weather area encompasses more than 3 million people from Thursday overnight into Friday morning, and this number drops to more than one million for mainly Los Angeles and Ventura counties on Friday,” CNN meteorologist Rob Shackelford said, adding that the threat could last through Sunday.
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