Gusty winds, chilly temps coming to Southern California

LOS ANGELES — A tempest strategy is bringing chill and blustery upwind to the Southern California country Monday — with gale unit winds and unsmooth seas astatine the seashore and damaging gusts imaginable successful the mountains.

The winds volition weaken overnight, but the autumn chill — with highs reaching lone the little 70s Monday — volition past into Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. A warming inclination volition travel for the remainder of the week.

A upwind advisory is successful effect from 1 p.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday among formation cities on the Los Angeles County coastline, arsenic good arsenic downtown Los Angeles the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley and Santa Clarita Valley. Northwest to northbound winds of 15 to 30 miles per hour, with gusts up to 45 mph, are forecast.

A precocious surf advisory besides is successful effect from noon Monday to 8 a.m. Tuesday successful some Los Angeles and Orange counties.

(Graphic courtesy of the National Weather Service)

NWS officials said the gusty winds could marque driving hard for precocious illustration vehicles, and they warned that histrion limbs whitethorn autumn and origin powerfulness outages. People besides are urged to unafraid each outdoor objects that could stroke away.

The upwind is much utmost successful southwestern California counties, including Orange, San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino, wherever determination are besides upwind and precocious surf advisories successful effect done time and gusts contiguous could deed 50 to 70 mph successful the mountains and adjacent godforsaken slopes, according to NWS officials.

Desert areas successful those regions volition get gusts of 35 to 55 mph, portion the coasts and valleys volition scope 25 to 35 mph.

There besides is simply a tiny accidental of showers chiefly successful the mountains oregon acold inland valleys and foothills Monday day done aboriginal evening, with a precocious upwind informing and frost advisory successful effect Monday nighttime successful the Antelope Valley. A dusting of snowfall is imaginable supra astir 7,000 feet.