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A man was arrested on suspicion of purposely starting a brush fire in Azusa, police announced.

First responders were called to Pioneer Park shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Friday, according to the Azusa Police Department. There, a witness told officers the man who ignited the blaze was still at the scene.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — We are anticipating a dry week ahead (not uncommon to have 1 or 2 weeks of dry weather before storms return) and we are nearly halfway through the rainy season.

Across the state, Northern California has seen flooding rains while Southern California has barely seen a drop of rain this winter.

We are doing quite well across much of the Bay Area. Majority of cities are above average/close to when it comes to rainfall. However, the South Bay is running significantly below average. This is due to the storm track favoring the North Bay (think flooding rains from weeks past).

A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has been explained for the first time by researchers at the University of Calgary.

The article, which was published on Dec. 30 in the journal Nature Communications, explores a “structured continuum emission” that’s associated with .

“You’d see this dynamic green aurora, you’d see some of the red aurora in the background and, all of a sudden, you’d see this structured—almost like a patch—gray-toned or white toned-emission connected to the aurora,” says Dr. Emma Spanswick, Ph.D., lead author on the paper and an associate professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science.