Under a blue moon, officials hope for a quiet, and distanced, Halloween
Expect a balmy, quieter-than-normal Halloween, with the first blue moon on the holiday since 2001.
An offshore wind flow should keep skies mostly clear to see the blue moon, the name for a second full moon in a single calendar month, when it rises at 6:20 pm.
Traditional Halloween celebrations are largely canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and officials have strongly discouraged — or outright banned — trick-or-treating.
Major events, such as West Hollywood’s Halloween Carnaval and the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor haunt in Long Beach, have been scrapped.
“Treat yourself and your family to a safe Halloween. Don’t trick the community to even higher levels of spread,†said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, medical epidemiologist and infectious disease expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Warm temperatures should persist through the weekend, with valleys reaching the 90s, said David Sweet, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Locally gusty winds are expected in the mountains and deserts, elevating the fire risk. A dense layer of fog might sock in the coast overnight and in the morning Sunday.
Daylight savings time ends at 2 a.m., with clocks set back an hour.
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