Wind warning ends ... but it's still windy

At 3 p.m., the National Weather Service's high wind warning expired, as winds began to taper off. Though it was still windy, weather specialist Bonnie Bartling said the 60 to 100 mph gusts that had roared down the canyons in the last few days would largely disappear Tuesday night, leading into Wednesday.

The Newhall pass, which Sunday and Monday had gusts that clocked in at more than 70 mph, had gusts of 48 mph Tuesday, Bartling said.

"We're done with the strongest winds. We're kicking into a weaker Santa Ana tomorrow around noon," she said late Tuesday. "The winds are diminishing."

There will still be wind advisories in the mountains and parts of the Santa Clarita Valley, she said. But the strongest gusts should be a shadow of what they had been.

On Thursday, the high pressure system over the Great Basin above Utah will move east, toward Colorado. With that, the offshore breezes flowing into the Pacific in the general direction of the Santa Anas, should begin to switch to onshore breezes.

"The high pressure system is going to move far enough to the east where it will turn off the Santa Ana spigot," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada-Flintridge. "At that point, we'll see our normal weather, which is an onshore flow."

-- Hector Becerra