California rain helps in the wild, but they risk poisonous runoff, muddy | Weather News
The expert warns of “a rather high danger of mud, the debris flows” as the crews work to extinguish the final pockets of the La-Poddra.
Rains in southern California have encouraged hopes for firefighters working on wild fire fires that have ravaged Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
However, officials also warned the residents of muddy and running out of poisonous sludge as the rain was supposed to continue until Monday.
Increasing “shower and thunderstorm activity” throughout the area “can result in localized areas of flash floods, including the activity of waste flow,” said the US National Ocean and atmosphere (Noah) administration in its latest update late Sunday.
Warning refers to areas that are burned by Still active palisadesEaton and Hughes fires, which have together burned more than 15,300 acres (38,000 hectares) in Los Angeles County.
The regions that were burned by Farklin, Hurst and Most, which first broke out in September last year are also at risk.
Joe Sirard, a meteorologist of the National Meteorological Service in Oxnard, west of Los Angeles, said even a relatively small amount of rain can cause danger.
“All these fresh burns are very sensitive to rapid runoff,” Sirad said. “That means we have a rather high danger of mud and debris flow after we reach those thresholds.”
From 3:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Monday, Los Angeles International Airport reported a little less than 2.5 cm (1 inch) of rain in the previous 24 hours.
In the meantime, officials said that several schools at the Unified School Santa Monica-Maliba was closed on Monday because of dangerous road conditions and access to access. “
Part of the Pacific Ocean highway in Los Angeles County has also been closed since Sunday afternoon due to Blato in Topanga Canyon, the California Ministry of Transport said.
Officials have further warned that running from the recent burn zones – ash blend of burned cars, batteries, construction materials, pesticides, asbestos, plastic and lead – can be toxic.
Despite the risks, the weather forecast for southern California can fight well for firefighters who have strained to redeem the last pockets of the remaining fires.
From Monday, the biggest fire, PalisadeIt was 90 percent. The flame, which began on January 7, destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 11 people.
The Eaton fire, which began on the same day and killed at least 16 people, was 98 percent.
And Hughes fire, which is caused 22. January is contained 95 percent.
Southern California has recorded increasing drought conditions since December, and parts of Los Angeles County continue to experience “extreme drought”, according to the US drought monitor held by the University of Nebraska-Lilln.
The extreme drought is the second highest tracker classification.
The Blazes was further exacerbated by Santa Ana winds, which carry warm and dry air on the coast of California.
Climate scientists say they are getting warmer and dry conditions caused Climate change caused by people Increase the frequency and severity of wild fires.
US President Donald Trump traveled to California last week to evaluate fire damage as he continued attacks on democratic leaders in the country.
Trump falsely claimed that officials could provide more water from the northern reach to fight Blazes.
Trump issued an executive order on Sunday, claiming that the federal agencies for bypassing state water management were considered ineffective.
