Winds Return to Southern California

The Santa Ana winds will sweep across Southern California once again, bringing gusts of over 60 mph in the mountains on Monday, the National Weather Service predicted.

"Gusty Santa Ana winds will develop across Los Angeles and Ventura counties early Monday morning," the weather agency said.

A high-wind warning is in effect through Tuesday, forecasters said.

Intense winds over the past week left thousands of people without electricity. Crews in Southern California cleaned up downed power lines and damaged structures Sunday.

The unusually powerful Santa Ana winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions, according to the weather service.

Bad Weather Strands Travelers at Mt. Everest

A group of about 2,000 people are stranded in the foothills of Mount Everest in Nepal because of bad weather, officials say.

Foreign hikers, Nepalese guides and porters are among those who have been stuck in the area for five days as the Tenzing-Hillary airport in Lukla, Nepal, is out of commission, the BBC reported.

Food is running low and hotels are overrun with guests who are unable to leave due to the weather conditions.

Some helicopters were able to remove some tourists from the area Friday, but that effort was also hampered by the weather. Air traffic controllers say the bad weather is unlikely to shift for days.

Many hotel owners have sent word to inns further up Everest that trekkers there should not descend the mountains, as there is no room left downhill.

Last year, similar conditions left tourists stranded for about 15 days, resulting in a severe food and health crisis.

Hurricane Jova Update

Hurricane Jova bore down on the Pacific coast of southwest Mexico on Tuesday threatening to pound one of the country's busiest cargo ports and tourist resorts with destructive waves, heavy rainfall and flooding.

The Category 3 storm, with top winds reaching 115 miles per hour, was about 150 miles southwest of the port city of Manzanillo at 5 a.m. EDT, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Jova should make landfall on Tuesday afternoon or evening to the northwest of Manzanillo near the resort towns of Melaque and Barra de Navidad on a stretch of coast dotted with beaches south of Puerto Vallarta.

Manzanillo, Mexico's main point of arrival for cargo containers, has been closed since late Sunday and about 13 container ships are stuck in the port.

An official said shipments that were held up because of the lock-down, included 15,000 tonnes of sugar from Colombia, 16,000 tonnes of imported rolled steel and a shipment of iron pellets for domestic use.

Manzanillo handles about 750 containers of cargo a month and ships goods including cars, car parts, cattle, minerals and tequila to Asian and North American markets.

U.S. Open Match to Watch: Day 11

Hard to pick just one match, but how about the entire schedules from Ashe, Armstrong, the Grandstand and Courts 11 and 17.

Arthur Ashe Stadium 11:00 AM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – 4th Round

Gilles Muller (LUX) v. Rafael Nadal (ESP)[2]

Not Before:1:00 PM To Finish 3-0

2. Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Serena Williams (USA)[28] v. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)[17]

3. Men’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Novak Djokovic (SRB)[1] v. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)[20]

 

Arthur Ashe Stadium 7:00 PM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Roger Federer (SUI)[3] v. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)[11]

 

Louis Armstrong Stadium 11:00 AM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – 4th Round

Andy Roddick (ESP)[5] v. David Ferrer (USA)[21]

Not Before:1:00 PM To Finish 3-1

2. Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)[1] v. Andrea Petkovic (GER)[10]

3. Women’s Doubles – Quarterfinals

Iveta Benesova (CZE)[9] v. Liezel Huber (USA)[4]

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE)[9] Lisa Raymond (USA)[4]

 

Grandstand 11:00 AM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – 4th Round

Donald Young (USA) v. Andy Murray (GBR)[4]

Not Before:1:00 PM To Finish 2-1

2. Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Samantha Stosur (AUS)[9] v. Vera Zvonareva (RUS)[2]

3. Mixed Doubles – Semifinals

Melanie Oudin (USA) v. Elena Vesnina (RUS)[7]

Jack Sock (USA) Leander Paes (IND)[7]

Court 17 11:00 AM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – 4th Round

John Isner (USA)[28] v. Gilles Simon (FRA)[12]

Not Before:1:00 PM

2. Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Angelique Kerber (GER) v. Flavia Pennetta (ITA)[26]

3. Men’s Doubles – Quarterfinals

Rohan Bopanna (IND)[5] v. Colin Fleming (GBR)

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)[5] Ross Hutchins (GBR)

All this is of course, weather permitting.

U.S. Open Weather for Wednesday

All matches were called off yesterday, it doesn't look much better today.

In summary, 60-70% chance of rain today.  Don't expect them to call off the play early today.