Sprinkle

Weather Enthusiast | Amateur Scanner / Updating on weather and incidents in Ventura County

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

The first significant statewide storm of the wet season is expected to impact California Sunday night through Monday with widespread rain and mountain snow all the way down to SoCal. This will be SoCal's first widespread significant rainfall since early April. #CAwx #CAfire

[SoCal @SocalAirOps]

#PerkinFire (#Ventura | #Oxnard)

Time lapse video of the #PerkinFire beginning to end. Forward progress has been stopped.

[CA Fire Scanner @CAFireScanner]

#MainFire (#Ventura, Ventura Co) - IC reporting 7 acres, just working on perimeter control due to limited resources. 2 addl handcrews requested.

#PerkinFire (#Ventura/#Oxnard) - IC reporting 15 acres w/ forward progress slowing, but still have short range spotting.

[VCscanner @VCscanner]

#PerkinFire: 2 copters now working the fire. VCSO evacuating homeless from the river bottom. Also a 2nd fire near the 33 and the 101 (I won't be covering that one as I can't hear that radio channel from the other side of the county)

[VCFD PIO @VCFD_PIO]

#CornellFire; fire is holding at 174 acres with the cause under investigation. The 200 FF’s on scene are dealing with strong winds, thick brush and piles of mulch and wood. @VCFD @VENTURASHERIFF @VCPFA #vcfd

[CA Fire Scanner @CAFireScanner]

#CornellFire (#SantaPaula, Ventura Co) - AA12 reporting fire was just mapped @ 173.5 acres by the Intel 24 aircraft. Much less smoke visible now - looks like good progress being made.

[LAC/VNC Scanner🚒🔥 @SCscanner1]

#SantaPaula #CornellFire - Spot fire taking off now on the EB side of Hwy 126 near Briggs...

[VCscanner @VCscanner]

#CornellFire: Priority is life safety and structure protection. Objective is to keep the fire north of South Mountain Road, south of the 126, east of the 118 and west of the 12th Street bridge. 25+ acres with potential for 100+.

[Joy Benedict @joybenedict]

A huge aerial response by @VCFD right now in Santa Paula as the #CornellFire continues to burn in the Santa Clara riverbed @CBSLA

[Sprinkle @SprinkleScanner]

Windy day for the Ventura to Santa Paula corridor. Wind gusts ~1pm are comparable to or a little stronger than the previous wind event in this area. One station ~1100 ft altitude near Ventura is reading 73 MPH gusts.

Gusts near the #CornellFire in Santa Paula 30-40 MPH

[Sprinkle @SprinkleScanner]

Extremely critical fire danger (purple) for inland Ventura County and into Santa Clarita for Thursday, 12/03.

Some wind gusts as of 11:15pm shown; a 58 MPH wind gust recorded on the east end of Simi within the last hour.
Conditions are expected to continue/worsen through morning

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

Parts of the Arctic averaged up to +14 °C above normal for the entire month of November.

Preliminary data suggesting we witnessed the hottest November globally on record.

2020 is on track to be the hottest year on record.

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[Rob Mayeda @RobMayeda]

More than 8 million living in SoCal to be affected by critical to extreme fire wx conditions Thursday. Highest level of fire danger threat (extreme) @NWSSPC has assigned to the hills/mtns east of San Diego. #CAwx #FireWx

[Sprinkle @SprinkleScanner]

Normally if it would rain significantly by now, this wouldn't be a fire concern. However, due to no significant rain and weeks since the last [little] rain, fuels are very dry-- energy release component 95-97th percentile for the area for this time of year (red areas shown).

[Sprinkle @SprinkleScanner]

Longer term, fire weather concerns may persist through mid-month, starting with another potential event 07/08 December.

While still uncertain in some aspects, a low may inside-slide its way into a position that stacks the upper level winds with an offshore flow. #CAwx #FireWX

[Sprinkle @SprinkleScanner]

The latest GFS runs haven't been too lenient through mid-month-- if more upper level lows continue to inside slide like this, it would create multiple offshore wind events back-to-back.