A strong and widespread wind event has begun and will persist through Saturday.
The first peak of this event will occur late Wednesday into Friday morning with strong northerly winds, then diminish with continued offshore flow through at least the upcoming weekend.
The combination of strong offshore flow and good upper-level wind support should produce damaging wind gusts to 80 mph or higher through the Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara county mountains with gusts as high as 60 mph across the wind prone adjacent valleys and coastal areas.
Senators Barbara Boxer, Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) today applauded Senate passage of their Commonsense Defense Contractor Compensation amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which would lower the maximum amount taxpayers reimburse defense contractors for their salaries.
The Canyon and Valencia boys basketball teams are having solid runs in a couple tournaments.
Two workers were hospitalized when a flash fire erupted Wednesday night at Bocchi Laboratories, a chemical plant across the street from the Santa Clarita Sports Complex.
