Smoke is drifting to cities miles away from where five major wildfires are burning in Los Angeles County, prompting several air quality alerts, but will it reach San Diego County?

The Santa Ana winds that stoked a huge wildfire near Malibu were beginning to snap through San Diego County late Tuesday afternoon, in the start of what could be a week or more of off-and-on lashings in a region that’s drier than it’s been in years,