To understand why so many fires are burning out of control in the West, you have to go back to Labor Day — and the freak snowstorm that hit Colorado.
The Santa Ana winds, thankfully, ended up not being that strong around the El Dorado fire in San Bernardino County, sparked by a pyrotechnic device used during ain Yucaipa, nor the Valley fire in southern San Diego County, said Brandt Maxwell, meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s San Diego office.
The location of the El Dorado fire happened to be sheltered from the Santa Ana winds by mountains, and the strongest winds in southern San Diego County just happened to miss where the Valley fire was burning, Maxwell said.Strangely enough, the oppressive smoke fouling the skies is helping firefighters in some parts of California.to the surface, bouncing off the layer of smoke in the air.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, a marine layer of low clouds and fog helped in recent days to keep dry, hot Diablo winds away from the region, which is close to containing the LNU, SCU and CZU lightning complex fires, said Rick Canepa, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Monterey. And the heavy smoke — which led to an apocalyptic-looking glow of dark orange in the skies of San Francisco last week — drove down temperatures roughly 20 degrees below what they had been forecast.
Lin reported from San Francisco; Serna from Clovis. Times staff writers Hailey Branson-Potts, Anita Chabria, Paul Duginski, Melissa Etehad, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Richard Read and Ruben Vives contributed to this report.
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