Accuweather is now forecasting return of Santa Ana conditions late saturday persisting for sunday and monday - though not predicted to be as strong as this week's winds.
This is bad news for the wildfire situation in southern california, as the bigger fires are unlikely to be fully contained by then.
There is also the possibility of new fires springing up in other locations - eg the San Gabriels were pretty much not touched in this round, slightly different wind direction might make them vulnerable.
Might not be done yet.
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While I work on my monster grant proposal -- I and my colleagues have been working on it for 9 months, but with the deadline only 3 months away it is time to turn the volume up to 11 -- blogging may be light or brief.
There has been a lot of chatter about the e-mail cracked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (not to be confused with the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the UK Met Office in Exeter).
In the "Little House on the Prairie" series, one of the later books describes the family's move to the Dakota's and the long winter they suffered through.