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Currently in Los Angeles — October 31, 2023: A bone-dry Halloween
Plus, a frigid Halloween night nationwide.
Ade Adeniji & Eric Holthaus
October 30, 2023
The weather, currently.
A bone-dry Halloween
Halloween is here as are the bone-dry humidities that the Santa Ana winds of the fall bring. Only a few miles from the Pacific, the relative humidities in Hawthorne and Torrance were in the single digits Monday afternoon!
As we all hit the town later today and tonight in our finest getups, there will be quite a bit of diurnal temperature range. For the first time since 2019, West Hollywood’s Halloween Carnival is finally returning. Temperatures will start out in the low 50s in that neighborhood Tuesday morning and will warm all the way to around 84. And due north of L.A. in the Antelope Valley, some temperatures went down into the mid-20s. Ah, Southern California: where frost and fire warnings come on the same day.
What you need to know, currently.
Temperatures 10 to 25°F colder than normal will shroud most of the United States on Halloween, bringing a chill to any planned spooky festivities.
Freeze warnings stretch from southern California to Louisiana to eastern Pennsylvania, and some places like western North Dakota may even dip below zero Fahrenheit on Tuesday morning.
It may be a good idea to figure out how to incorporate a jacket into that costume tomorrow night across much of the lower 48. "Mr. Freeze" is a good costume, but only if it's intended. #Halloween
— National Weather Service (@NWS)
5:37 PM • Oct 30, 2023
If you have a Halloween costume that’s winter-adaptable, I’d recommend it. Like maybe “Lavender Haze” Taylor instead of “Shake it Off” Taylor??
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