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Todays weather in Los Angeles - Friday - 22 May 2026
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Southern California is battling five simultaneous wildfires covering nearly 26,000 acres after a rare Category 4-5 Santa Ana event in May. Air quality is unhealthful across the LA Basin tonight — here's what you need to know before tomorrow morning.
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Los Angeles, this isn't a fall fire story. It's May, and Southern California just got hit with what climate scientists are calling a Category four or five Santa Ana event.
Right now, five fires across Southern California are each over a thousand acres. The Sandy Fire is the closest concern for the LA metro, sitting at two thousand one hundred forty-one acres with only thirty percent containment as of Thursday evening.
Here's the thing about those dry fuels. Southern California hasn't seen meaningful rain since December.
For people staying home tonight, air quality is the immediate concern. The smoke advisory now runs through ten p.m.
One wildcard worth watching. The Sandy Fire is burning near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a twenty-eight hundred acre former industrial site with known contamination.
Los Angeles. Five fires.
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