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END OF SPRING-LIKE ERA WIND GUSTS EXPECTED TO GIVE WAY TO SHOWERS.


Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER - The spring-like weather that has marked the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming.

The Antelope Valley
 for more than two weeks disappeared Wednesday.

Blustery blus·ter  
v. blus·tered, blus·ter·ing, blus·ters

v.intr.
1. To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm.

2.
a. To speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner.
 winds stirred up dust clouds and kept afternoon temperatures in the low 50s.

The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory Wednesday for the Antelope Valley, brought on by a strong onshore on·shore  
adj.
1. Moving or directed toward the shore: an onshore wind.

2. Located on the shore: an onshore beacon; an onshore patrol.

adv.
 flow.

Gusts were clocked Wednesday as high as 37 mph at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale and 39 mph at Fox Airfield in Lancaster.

Winds were predicted to be considerably lower today. The Weather Service predicted afternoon temperatures today in the 50s, with partly cloudy Partly Cloudy is an industrial band based in Hollywood, California. Band members
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  • Robert Martin - guitar, synthesizers
  • Gigi Drums - drums/percussion
  • Lisa Priester - bass
 skies, and slightly chillier weather Friday.

The Weather Service said there is a 30 percent chance of showers Friday night and Saturday morning, then partly cloudy skies Sunday.

At the Mountain High ski area in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los , operators said they expected the end of the unseasonably warm weather to let them resume snowmaking snow·mak·ing  
n.
Production of artificial snow in the form of granular ice particles for use on ski slopes.
. The resort reported a 40 percent chance of snow Saturday, with snow showers possible Monday and Tuesday.

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(color) A car drives through a dust cloud caused by high winds on 50th St. East, near Avenue K in Lancaster. The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory Wednesday, but gusts are expected to taper down today.

Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer
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Date:Feb 16, 2006
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