couple days. good news across california particularly to the north initially. here is how we get here. hottest july on record this summer. we had the hottest single month on record for california s state history. plenty of fuel. plenty of dry conditions across the region. going into tuesday, notice the elevated concern in place. we dropped it down from extreme to critical. the winds will be 5 to 15 miles per hour across the north. to the south. it is a different story. critical to extreme conditions for fire weather behavior. a lot of concerns is due to spot fires. embers carrying downstream and creating smaller fires across the same vicinity of the wildfires. firefighters have had their work cut out for them tracking those. winds peaking across southern california as high as 70 miles an hour. we expect calmer conditions across southern california on wednesday.
spot fires. picking up embers and carrying them downstream and creating a problem. firefighters have had their work cut out for them. winds peaking across southern california as high as 70 miles per hour. we expect calmer conditions by wednesday across southern california. containment numbers could go up as well. guys. pedram, thank you. to florida where the lawsuits are mounting and accusations flying in the election recount. officials scrambling to count every vote by thursday s deadline. as the race gets uglier by the hour. rick scott and bill nelson blasting one another. what bill nelson needs to do now is what he is asking me to do. say look, the election happened. let s go forward. he is not. he is a pure sore loser trying to steal an election. rick scott is not making sure
purple and then the lighter purple, that s where we could see seven to ten inches of rain. notice the northern half of the storm, new york city, hartford, albany, boston, you re going to have rain, but it s not even going to be a quarter of what they re going to see further to the south. that s the issue with the rain. the winds are really starting to pick up now. look at belmar on the jersey coast. that s the highest gust you ve had at 43. so winds are not just picking up, but they re staying high. and this is as the storm gets closer, we re going to continue watching the winds peaking. we have high wind warnings throughout the entire region. that s what you d expect when you have a hurricane that s going to make landfall anyways. specifically the gusts around 60 to 80 miles per hour. those high gusts, where they come on shore later tonight, is where the most wind damage will be done. the most tree damage will be done. and, of course, that s where the most widespread power outages wil