No help from Mother Nature

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The National Weather Service didn’t offer firefighters much encouragement.

The forecast for today calls for another big drop in humidity to the single digits and temperatures in the high 80s and low 90s. Forecasters also predict light winds.

‘The conditions are pretty similar to yesterday,’ said Rich Thompson of the National Weather Service. ‘There is not a lot of wind, but you don’t need a lot of wind to dry things out.’

Firefighters were aided overnight when humidity levels rose to 15-25%. But those levels are expected to fall today. (LAT photo)

-Andrew Blankstein