A heat wave is headed to Southern California next week, and as the temperature soars, so does the risk of wildfires.
After a record-breaking stretch of mild weather in Los Angeles, things will start to heat up on Monday, and by Wednesday temperatures will reach triple digits in some areas of L.A. County.
In that kind of dry, scorching weather, it doesn’t take much to spark a wildfire.
“We’re getting no more precipitation with a lot of these low pressure systems that we’ve had, and we’re starting to see the vegetation dry out,” National Weather Service senior meteorologist Todd Hall told KNX News’ Jon Baird.
After all the rain over the winter, there’s plenty of vegetation on the hills and mountains, which could fuel massive brush fires once it dries out.
Hall said temperatures will continue to rise until Friday and Saturday, and the hot weather is expected to be higher than normal the following week as well.
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