Updraft: October 14, 2008 Archive

Ablaze

Posted at 8:19 AM on October 14, 2008 by Craig Edwards

While here in Minnesota and the upper Midwest are ablaze with autumn color, it is a different kind of blaze in southern California.

California fires

Very dry winds and warm temperatures are creating a high fire danger around Los Angeles. Conditions are likely to remain perilious through Wednesday.

Forecast for southern California

Rainfall totals yesterday ranged as high as 0.60 inch at Mankato to slightly more than a tenth of an inch at St. Cloud and Duluth. About a third of an inch fell around the Twin Cities.

Showers may brush far southeast Minnesota on Wednesday.
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