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There's a break from the Santa Ana winds in the Tri-Counties, but they may return next week

Cristina Glebova
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There's another possible wind event next Monday night-Tuesday morning, and maybe a second later in the week. Neither is expected to be an extreme event.

After weeks of high and sometimes extreme wildfire danger in the
Tri-Counties, we are finally getting a break. But, it may not be a long one.

We’ll have a cooler, onshore flow in the region for the next few days.

It will give firefighters trying to mop up Southern California’s wildfires some much needed relief.

But. meteorologists say they latest computer models show the chance for another Santa Ana wind event next year. They say it would once again be focused on Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, possibly Monday night into Tuesday. If it happens, it’s expected to be a moderate event, not like the destructive extreme ones we’ve seen during the last three months.

There’s also the chance of a second one later in the week, but forecasters say it’s simply too early to tell for sure.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.