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“The PDS is highlighting an extremely dangerous environment that is very favorable to rapid fire growth if a fire were to start,” said Rose Schoenfeld, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Oxnard.

A red flag warning — indicating critical fire weather conditions and rapid fire spread with any new ignition — could go into effect for wide swaths of the counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura starting at 10 a.m.

With gusts of 30 mph to 50 mph, and up to around 60 mph around mountains, “This would yield locally rapid fire growth with any new fire,” Schoenfeld said.

“This would yield locally rapid fire growth with any new fires,” Schoenfeld said.

The NWS has reissued a ‘particularly dangerous situation’ warning for swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, cautioning of high wind gusts, dry air and a higher risk of rapid fire spread and extreme fire behavior.