[dropcap size=big]O[/dropcap]n Monday, the first fully hot ‘hot day’ of 2019, higher than usual temperatures were greeted as the unofficial start of summer and the summer fire season, although the weather wonks warned us in advance.
A 100-acre brush fire near the Six Flags theme park on Sunday in Valencia provided the first striking images of this season’s expected burning in a state of affairs that local authorities tell us is the “new normal.”
RAW VIDEO: A brush fire burning in Valencia has spurred the evacuation of @SixFlags Magic Mountain. (video credit: Pat Givens/CBS) pic.twitter.com/IiaxNQDvXk
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) June 9, 2019
Temperatures topped 91 degrees in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, a palpable shift in L.A.'s weather after months of maddening days of cool, cloudy weather in Southern California, largely unchanged since December. Suddenly it felt terribly hot again in L.A., and heat is expected to linger through Tuesday.