Parts of California bracing for "life-threatening" windstorm

The California Highway Patrol is informing anyone driving successful the windy conditions to instrumentality it slow.

LOS ANGELES (KFSN) -- People crossed the state, particularly successful Southern California, are preparing for a upwind lawsuit this week.

In Los Angeles and Ventura counties, winds could gust 50-80 miles per hour, and arsenic beardown arsenic 80-100 miles per hr successful the foothills and mountains of Central California.

The National Weather Service is calling the windstorm "life-threatening" and "destructive."

The occurrence hazard is besides high.

"We cognize things are truly dry. We cognize if determination is simply a fire, it's upwind driven. And upwind driven fires are our concern," said Andy Van Sciver, the nationalist accusation serviceman for Ventura County Fire.

"That's the benignant of occurrence we had for the Mountain occurrence and the Franklin Fire."

The upwind lawsuit successful Southern California is expected to past from Tuesday to Wednesday.

The upwind is besides a interest for the California Highway Patrol, particularly done the Grapevine.

With those winds, determination could beryllium immoderate debris coming disconnected the hillsides truthful you're going to privation to wage attraction to what's going connected successful beforehand of you," said Officer D.C. Williams with CHP Fort Tejon.

The beardown gusts could marque it hard for high-profile vehicles similar semi trucks and RVs.

If you're driving adjacent 1 and announcement it commencement to sway, officers accidental you should alteration lanes and dilatory down to springiness yourself immoderate region from it.

You should besides wage attraction to your ain car if it's shaking from the wind, dilatory down to support control.

"Slow down, beryllium patient. Always deterioration your seatbelt. And beryllium prepared for the unexpected," said Williams.

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