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“This is going to be the first major storm of the season,” said Dial Hoang, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Monterey.

Weather service meteorologist Kristan Lund said the decision of whether to issue red flag warnings will likely be made Sunday or Monday, but the danger will be considerably lower than it was two weeks ago.

Ariel Cohen, the lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office, called the area a “favorable corridor” for Southern California’s Santa Ana winds, which have fueled many of those recent fires.

However, as meteorologists we need to look at all the data, understand the uncertainties, and suggest the most likely forecast.

But meteorologists say that predicting the path of fast moving, intense thunderstorms is a very tricky business.