Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Wildfires continue in California with rain on the way
Top weather news for Friday, Jan. 24, 2025: Southern California is grappling with a surge in wildfires, with nine active fires currently burning across the region. However, there's encouraging news as containment efforts are increasing.
Weather in America: January 24, 2025
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Friday, January 24, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Wildfire siege continues in Southern California as pockets of beneficial weekend rain near
Southern California is grappling with a surge in wildfires, with nine active fires currently burning across the region. However, there's encouraging news as containment efforts are increasing.
The two massive fires, the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires, have been raging near Los Angeles since Jan. 7, with containment efforts reaching 75% and 95%, respectively. A number of new outbreaks have appeared this week, including several in the counties of Ventura, Riverside, and near San Diego.
As of Friday, the Hughes Fire in Los Angeles County has forced thousands to evacuate. The once rapidly-growing Laguna Fire near Camarillo in Ventura County has been contained at 50 acres. The remote location and challenging terrain of the Gilman Fire, situated between Encinitas and San Diego, are also significantly hampering the firefighting effort.
National Guard drop fire retardant on California Hughes Fire
Footage shot from the cockpit of a firefighting aircraft shows a U.S. Air National Guard pilot dropping fire retardant over the Hughes Fire in Southern California on Wednesday.
The FOX Forecast Center said an upper-level disturbance will likely swing into the region from the Pacific Ocean this weekend, bringing the first widespread rain in months. That rain comes with its own set of risks, though.
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Remnants of Gulf Coast snowstorm impacting Europe as powerful bomb cyclone
Energy from a storm system that produced record snowfall along the Gulf Coast is expected to bash Western Europe with heavy precipitation and damaging wind gusts late in the workweek and into the early weekend.
Forecasters have named the storm system Éowyn as it rapidly strengthened in the Northern Atlantic and became what is known as a bomb cyclone.
Linda Hughes, from Met Éireann, Ireland's meteorological agency, spoke to FOX Weather about the storm system, describing it as one of the strongest in recent memory.
Europe on alert for powerful bomb cyclone
Weather alerts have been issued by local national weather services for Ireland and the United Kingdom as a powerful storm system works across the Northern Atlantic into western Europe. Forecasters expected peak wind gusts to reach 80-100 mph on Friday and into the early weekend.
Eagles-Commanders preview: Will weather hinder NFC Championship?
Sunday afternoon, the Washington Commanders travel to Philadelphia to face off against the Eagles in the NFC Championship.
This comes as freezing temperatures have swept the nation, and a historic snowstorm made the southern U.S. look more like a wintry Philly.
Before the historic southern winter storm, Philadelphia was graced with 2 inches of snow during the divisional-round playoff game against the Los Angeles Rams. The Eagles won dramatically, 28-22.
Although no snow is expected to fall on Sunday, freezing temperatures will make their presence felt, with the lowest temperatures for the day reaching 28 degrees in the morning. Game-time temperatures will be in the mid- to upper 30s.
Jalen Hurts #1 of the Philadelphia Eagles throws a pass against the Los Angeles Rams during the fourth quarter in the NFC Divisional Playoff at Lincoln Financial Field on January 19, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Watch: Louisiana nuns pray for snow; Lord answers in historic way as snowball fight erupts
It seems the monthlong prayers for snow from a group of nuns at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Parish in Metairie, Louisiana, were answered on Tuesday while the Gulf Coast experienced its worst winter storm in more than 120 years, including the first-ever Blizzard Warning in Louisiana.
Watch: Nuns have snowball fight in Metairie, Louisiana
A group of nuns engaged in a snowball fight with a priest at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church & School in Metairie, Louisiana, during a snowstorm on Tuesday.
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