Fire Weather Creeps Back into State

Hot and dry air is spreading across the West. "The jet stream is in retreat into western Canada and high pressure is building over the West, allowing the hot dry air to spread from the Desert Southwest as far north as central British Columbia and Alberta," alerted Accuweather in an e-mail. Triple digits are expected for some parts of California, but the Los Angeles area should be around 86 today and hover in the low 80s throughout the weekend.