{"id":209391,"date":"2026-03-07T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209391\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:46:07","slug":"intense-santa-ana-winds-pound-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209391\/","title":{"rendered":"Intense Santa Ana winds pound Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Intense Santa Ana winds buffeted Southern California on Saturday, with officials warning of damaging gusts and the potential of \u201csmall fire activity\u201d through the weekend. <\/p>\n

The gusty conditions are expected to continue across Los Angeles and Ventura counties on Saturday with moderate to strong Santa Ana winds persisting through Sunday, the National Weather Service\u2019s area forecast said Saturday. <\/a>The strongest winds will affect the San Gabriel and Santa Susana mountains, with \u201cdamaging gusts\u201d reaching 60 to 70 mph. <\/p>\n

The advisory said temperatures will continue to rise through the weekend, with widespread highs in the 80s. The Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday \u201ccould now see temperatures peak around 90 degrees by the end of the event.\u201d The weather service said conditions are likely to cool early next week but forecast a \u201ctemperature whiplash\u201d with another warm and dry spell expected to start on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

High-wind warnings<\/a> in the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountains, including the Highway 14 corridor, remain in effect through 3 p.m. Saturday. Widespread wind advisories across the region are in place until 6 p.m. The weather service warns gusty winds can lead to \u201cdowned trees and powerlines as well as isolated power outages.\u201d<\/p>\n

No high-wind warnings are expected for Sunday, the weather service said, but advisories likely will continue with gusts mostly ranging from 35 to 50 mph. Strong winds can make travel difficult, the advisory warned, urging residents to take extra caution, including watching for falling debris and trees and, in high-wind warning zones, remaining in the lower levels of their home during a windstorm and avoiding windows. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intense Santa Ana winds buffeted Southern California on Saturday, with officials warning of damaging gusts and the potential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25046,7,9,8,96416,32474,28914,63,60,9403,23284,96417,595,1009,3727,776,36898,2695],"class_list":{"0":"post-209391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-advisory","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-damaging-gust","13":"tag-high-wind-warning","14":"tag-intense-santa-ana-wind","15":"tag-los-angeles-times","16":"tag-national-weather-service","17":"tag-p-m-saturday","18":"tag-san-gabriel","19":"tag-santa-susana-mountain","20":"tag-saturday","21":"tag-southern-california","22":"tag-strong-wind","23":"tag-sunday","24":"tag-temperature","25":"tag-weekend"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}