The National Weather Service reported astonishing wind gusts of 99 mph around Altadena. These powerful winds are part of an unusual weather event impacting the Los Angeles area.
Officials described this wind event as atypical for Santa Ana conditions, bringing dry, offshore winds, and warned of destructive phenomena particularly affecting the San Gabriel foothills.
NWS meteorologist Rich Thompson highlighted this as potentially the strongest wind event since the damaging 2011 windstorm, which cost around $40 million in damages.
During this extreme wind event, air attacks on the wildfires became impossible as increasingly powerful gusts forced crews to ground their aircraft in the fight against the fires.
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