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…RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM WEDNESDAY TO 8 PM PDT WEDNESDAY FOR THE COASTAL AREAS OF VENTURA AND LOS ANGELES DUE TO GUSTY SANTA ANA WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY.. —— It’s cool this morning … relatively. Of course … yesterday at sunrise it was 100 degrees up in the mountains above Malibu. […]

Te alphabet soup of government agencies that control the mountains above Malibu reacted in their normal chaotic and uncoordinated fashion over the weekend … when it got so hot that one person died on a trail. An unidentified 41-year-old woman began hiking at Tapia Park in Malibu Creek State Park around 8 a.m. Saturday and […]

At 6:30 this morning …. it was 100 degrees up on Latigo Canyon Road. By 11 this morning … the overnight low had finally been reached …. 80. Yes … the overnight low was hit at 11 in the morning.   That’s how hot it was last night. Some cooling breezes did arrive on the coast […]

From F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … these are the Monday headlines: = 100 degrees at 6:30 in the morning on upper Latigo Canyon . = Upper atmosphere smoke blowing above Malibu … from fires 50 and 100 miles distant. = 122 yesterday in the Malibu mountains … 110 in the city of Malibu itself. […]

The death of a hiker in Malibu Canyon may be behind the decision of California State Parks to close all trails as of 9:15 this Sunday morning. Temperatures had already climbed well above 100 degrees at the top of the Santa Monica Mountains today, when the closure was announced. An unidentified 41-year-old woman began hiking […]

Just posted: Strong Santa Ana winds along with hot temperatures and bone-dry humidity will occur across all of Southern California Tuesday night through Wednesday afternoon. Red Flag Warnings likely Tuesday. The forecast highs for Saturday and especially Sunday … in Malibu … are 90 on the ocean to 115 in the mountains just above the […]

It looks like Malibu will have to change its zoning rules .. to allow 76 more residences to be built here. That’s under a new quota just approved by the Southern California Association of Governments. All California cities face enormous increases in the number of homes the state wants them to build over the next […]

= Prepare to swelter … 95 at the beach … 115 up the hill. = No specific plans are out there … for closing the beaches if they get overcrowded. = Hungry families are still being given breakfast and lunch … at the local schools. = Malibu will have to add 76 housing units … […]

Climate change is decreasing coastal fog, and that could be leading to increased fire risk. UC Berkeley Plant Biologist Todd Dawson says coastal fog in California has declined by 33% over the past century. is partially the result of the warming climate, and that creates more terrestrial conditions that are prone to megafires. Fog moistens grasses and trees […]

A huge setback for clean air in Malibu. State officials yesterday approved extending the permits for a pair of methane-fueled electric plants 25 miles upwind of Malibu. The Mandalay electrical generating station … in Oxnard … as well as plants in Huntington Beach and Long Beach will have another three years before they must close […]