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Figgerlickinggood

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Any members on the forum from the Palisades area Los Angeles area my heart and sympathies go out to you. The videos I’m saying from the area is just beyond belief the devastation that is taken place is the worst I’ve ever seen in my life. everything is just gone block after block after block is just rubble and ash there’s nothing to collect nothing left it’s like a nuclear bomb just destroyed everything I feel so bad for all the people there.

 
Greenfig and Altadena Mara on OF may be affected by the other fire in Pasadena. I’m not sure exactly where they are at, but I know it’s in that vicinity.

Lafiggy may be near the fire you posted about. A lot of homes are in that area.
 
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It's not over. Sustained winds of 30 mph with single digit humidity are still blowing off the Mojave Desert into the region.
 
Charlie Dodgson said:
It's not over. Sustained winds of 30 mph with single digit humidity are still blowing off the Mojave Desert into the region.
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And it is gusting HARD out there right now. I think that 30 mph estimate was not accurate because it sounds just as hard as the other day when they said 90 mph gusts. To me it sounds like when they usually say ~ 75 mph.

Edited to add: They upgraded the gusts to 70 mph which sounds more like it based on how hard it’s blowing against my house. It’s blowing east, which is good for some fires, not for others.
 
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Inflorescence said:
that 30 mph estimate
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It's not an estimate. It's the sustained wind speed my wife was driving around in today in northwest Riverside county. The gusts were to 50 mph. It's true that gusts up to 90 mph were recorded a few days ago in some geographic funnels; e.g. Fremont Canyon near Irvine CA.

I'm 90 miles SE of the catastrophe. In years gone by the desert flow has been focused here and less to the north. I watched parts of San Diego burn to the ground. This time though we've been scarcely affected. My weather station is recording sustained daytime winds of 5 mph with gusts to 10 mph. Temperatures have ranged between 45°F overnight and 75°F during the day with humidity in the 15% to 20% range. A banana bunch that normally would not have ripened until May was ready to harvest this afternoon.
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Charlie Dodgson said:
It's not an estimate. It's the sustained wind speed my wife was driving around in today in northwest Riverside county. The gusts were to 50 mph. It's true that gusts up to 90 mph were recorded a few days ago in some geographic funnels; e.g. Fremont Canyon near Irvine CA.

I'm 90 miles SE of the catastrophe. In years gone by the desert flow has been focused here and less to the north. I watched parts of San Diego burn to the ground. This time though we've been scarcely affected. My weather station is recording sustained daytime winds of 5 mph with gusts to 10 mph. Temperatures have ranged between 45°F overnight and 75°F during the day with humidity in the 15% to 20% range. A banana bunch that normally would not have ripened until May was ready to harvest this afternoon.
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In the area here, they forecasted 30mph gusts as a severe weather warning, and I assumed that’s what you were referencing— the forecast for the fire area and I’m not that far from there. But they later updated it to up to gusts of 75 mph, with sustained winds of 35 mph which fit the way the wind was actually blowing here.
 
Fremont Canyon was reported to have winds up to 100 mph. But the winds were wild all over. As in the Sunland area which took off my cousin's entire roof.
 
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