Shaver Lake ready for windy conditions

The California Highway Patrol is reminding drivers to little their velocity if caught up successful upwind gusts successful the Shaver Lake area.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Preparations were underway successful Shaver Lake connected Tuesday arsenic gusty winds swept done Fresno County.

A Wind Advisory opening precocious Tuesday evening volition spell until 7 americium Wednesday arsenic gusts are expected to scope 60 miles per hr supra 8,000 feet.

The California Highway Patrol monitors the upwind conditions hourly alongside Caltrans and offers these champion practices erstwhile driving done upwind gusts.

Large vehicles particularly request to beryllium mindful of windy conditions.

"The higher illustration vehicles are ever the ones that look the top information of those precocious winds, truthful decidedly trim that speed," said California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Salas.

"The faster you're going, obviously, it's going to beryllium harder to stop, and the displacement of those vehicles being pushed from lane to lane sometimes is simply a factor."

SoCal Edison is besides monitoring upwind speeds and gusts to effort to debar the astir important danger: downed lines.

"The biggest hazard with winds is their imaginable to origin downed powerfulness lines oregon origin escaped articles oregon debris to spell flying successful the air. What we privation to debar is escaped articles to travel successful interaction with powerfulness lines due to the fact that the information with that is with a downed enactment they tin inactive beryllium energized," explained Gabriela Ornelas with SoCal Edison.

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