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Todays weather in Los Angeles - Friday - 22 May 2026
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A smoke advisory covers Los Angeles through 10 p.m. Thursday as the Sandy Fire burns near the Santa Susana Mountains — only 30% contained. Find out which neighborhoods are hardest hit, when overnight conditions get worse, and what to do right now.
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Los Angeles, the air right now is the story. A smoke advisory is in effect through ten p.m.
The Sandy fire's location matters beyond the acreage. It's burning close to the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a two thousand, eight hundred and fifty-acre former industrial site with a contaminated history.
Inland valleys are catching it too. The Bain fire at nearly fifteen hundred acres and the Verona fire at around six hundred acres are pushing smoke into the Inland Empire.
This week statewide: over twenty-six thousand acres burned, forty-five thousand evacuations, five fires above a thousand acres in Southern California alone. Year-to-date California has seen fifteen hundred and twenty-one fires burning forty-eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-five acres.
The clearest near-term question is whether wind picks up enough overnight to shift conditions. Right now that looks unlikely before the advisory expires at ten p.m.
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