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Expect the warmest and windiest day of the week.
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The peak gusts are expected to move out of the region by Thursday night, making room for a chance of wet weather into the weekend.
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Weather forecasters say the strong winds will continue through the afternoon.
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You may even catch a waterfall, too.
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Community solar would expand access to clean energy for renters and low- and moderate-income households, but solar advocates say a proposal to expand it falls far short.
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Even though we now have an average snowpack, it’s possible we won’t see an average amount of runoff.
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Slides continue to disrupt traffic along Pacific Coast Highway and Topanga Canyon, even though it stopped raining days ago.
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Cooling trend continues with mostly sunny skies in store for later today.
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All three eggs are officially beyond the typical hatching timeline, but Friends of Big Bear Valley hopes fans can take away some life lessons from watching the livestream.
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Cooling trend continues with mostly sunny skies in store for later today.
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Today will be a few degrees cooler and partly cloudy.
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With supply chains finally open, solar provided most of the nation's new electricity capacity last year.
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From Appalachia to the Bayou to the desert Southwest, here's how culture can teach us about adapting to a warmer world.
Landfills are the second-largest source of methane emissions in California. That’s why the California Air Resources Board took action to monitor and capture landfill gases.
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Clear skies, sunshine, and a couple of excessive heat warnings for the deserts remain until Saturday.
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The largest single-employer strike in U.S. history could frame worker power as a climate solution.
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Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning to push back.
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Saturday was record breaking. Sunday's going to more of the same, with temperatures cooling around Tuesday.
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As nights warm and droughts intensify, past models predicting fire behavior have become unreliable. So California is working with analysts and tapping into new technology to figure out how to attack wildfires. Gleaned from military satellites, drones and infrared mapping, the information is spat out in real-time and triaged by a fire behavior analyst.
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Looking for Family-Friendly Volunteer Opportunities in Los Angeles? Check Out These Outdoor Options.From native garden cleanups to harvesting surplus produce, here are 10 kid-friendly volunteer opportunities that will get you and your family outside.
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It's one of four fires burning in the area.
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Forecast for Death Valley: 127 on Saturday, 129 on Sunday.
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Relatively few people use the city's "augmented" cooling centers.
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The new forecast was released Thursday.
