From Friday to Monday, nearly 40 degrees of separation

Temperatures Monday afternoon will be down nearly 40 degrees from Friday's spectacular
82-degree high as a late-season chill grips the area. Monday’s high temperature is
expected to peak at a chilly 43 degrees, a level typical of early March and is just a few
degrees above the date's record low maximum of 39 established 134 years ago in 1874.
Showers should dampen the day, and with temperatures well below freezing moving in at
cloud level, snowflakes should mix in with the rain. Anxious gardeners buoyed by last
week’s warmth should be aware that the expected low temperatures Monday night and
Tuesday night will endanger newly planted vegetation. Warmer conditions will return by
midweek as the chill subsides.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES FEED ON HOT, DRY CONDITIONS
Wildfires burned hundreds of acres Sunday in portions of Southern California as
temperatures soared and humidities dropped. Afternoon temperatures reached a
record-tying 102 degrees at Fullerton, 103 at Santa Ana and 100 at Woodland Hills with
the humidity at a desert-level 5 percent. Los Angeles International Airport peaked at a
record high of 95.
--By Steve Kahn, WGN Weather Center Meteorologist