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Winds Return, Red Flag Warning for Hollywood Hills

Winds gusting between 45-65 miles per hour are expected throughout the region, forecasters say.

Waking up to chilly morning? That's not all that's in today's forecast.

The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for Los Angeles, including the Hollywood Hills effective at 6 a.m.

That word comes just as power has been fully restored to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers affected by the recent windstorm.

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The warning, indicating that "critical fire-weather conditions" are expected because of high winds and low humidity, will be in force over the region until 4 p.m. Tuesday. The Los Angeles Fire Department has not activated its red flag day parking restrictions as of 5:30 a.m. Monday, check http://lafd.org/redflag/ for updates.

The National Weather Service said the warning includes areas along the Orange and Los county coast, metropolitan Los Angeles including downtown and the Hollywood Hills. Red flag warnings for the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains, the Angeles National Forest, and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys began at 4 a.m.

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NWS meteorologists forecast winds gusting at between 45 and 60 miles per hour today in coastal and valley areas and at 65 mph in mountain passes and canyons amid humidity levels of between 10 and 5 per cent.

In these conditions, "if fire ignition occurs, there could be rapid spread of wildfire that would lead to a threat to life and property," said an NWS advisory.

Forecasters attributed the new round of high winds to a new spell of high pressure over the Great Basin.

The San Gabriel Valley, the area hardest-hit by Wednesday's winds, is expected to be spared the main thrust of the new wind event, said NWS meteorologist David Sweet.

Last week's windstorm caused more than a quarter-million residential and commercial customers to lose power.

The city-owned Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced Sunday that all its customers had had power restored. Southern California Edison, the region's primary utility, said that as of 2 a.m. today, power had been restored to all but 33,943 of its customers.

Temperatures, meanwhile, dipped to sub-freezing levels in several areas of the Southland overnight — 21 in Lancaster, 31 in Palmdale — and were forecast to remain on the chilly side today, with highs of 36 on Mount Wilson; 51 in Lancaster; 53 in Palmdale; 58 in Saugus; 63 in Avalon, Pasadena, San Gabriel, Burbank and Woodland Hills; 64 in Newport Beach, downtown L.A and at LAX; 65 in Long Beach; and 66 in Anaheim.

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