Santa Ana winds help to heat up Southern California, bringing some record-breaking temperatures

The mediate of November whitethorn mean blankets and lukewarm cocoa successful immoderate parts of the country, but Southern Californians connected Friday had to endure a wind-driven blast of record-breaking heat.

High unit and Santa Ana winds paired with a deficiency of greeting oversea breeze oregon marine layer, meant dry, blistery upwind that past good into Friday afternoon.

Santa Ana broke a grounds with a precocious somesthesia of 96 degrees, 4 degrees higher than the erstwhile grounds successful 1974.

An honorable mention: Newport Beach was 83 degrees astatine its highest connected Friday, conscionable 1 grade shy of the past grounds breaking somesthesia successful 1949.

While the seashore is traditionally a refuge for inlanders seeking alleviation from the heat, with Santa Ana winds coming from the northeast, temperatures connected the seashore were conscionable arsenic hot, if not somewhat hotter successful immoderate areas, than inland cities Friday afternoon.

In summation to heat, northeast winds peaked on the coastal foothills Friday, but was expected to weaken Friday evening into Saturday. Peak winds registered Friday astatine 36 miles per hr (mph) connected the Los Angeles County coast, 39 mph successful Chino Hills, and 42 mph successful Fontana, according to the National Weather Service.

#SantaAnawinds are weakening but volition proceed done the weekend, on with precise lukewarm and adust conditions. Elevated to little captious occurrence upwind volition besides proceed successful the windy areas. #SoCal #CAwx #CAfire pic.twitter.com/L2K2PLkeTm

— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) November 12, 2021

“It’s looking beauteous adust done the adjacent 10 days,” said Elizabeth Schenk, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

On Friday, comparative humidity was astir 15% inland and lone somewhat higher astatine 20-30% connected the coast, said Schenk.

Looking for cooling weather? Not truly happening this play but a oversea breeze volition statesman to summation arsenic #santaanawinds slice but remaining 10 to 17 degrees supra averages #socal pic.twitter.com/43xHObVVc0

— NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) November 12, 2021

High temperatures are expected passim the weekend, forecasters said.

An expanding oversea breeze volition bring immoderate alleviation to the seashore arsenic it did Friday day erstwhile the somesthesia astatine John Wayne Airport dropped astir 10 degrees successful conscionable nether an hr owed to oversea breeze. Stronger onshore travel is expected to resistance successful fog and debased clouds inland bring cooler, much humid upwind adjacent week.

Temperatures are expected to beryllium backmost to mean cooler seasonal temperatures by Tuesday.

Projected Saturday precocious temperatures, according to the NWS:

Downtown Los Angeles: 89°

Fullerton: 90°

Long Beach: 86°

Mission Viejo: 89°

Redlands: 89°

Riverside: 90°

San Bernardino: 91°

Torrance: 87°

Van Nuys: 91°

Whittier: 91°