Above: Map of the Alamo Fire east of Santa Maria, California. The red line was the perimeter at about 10 p.m. PDT July 9. The white line was the perimeter about 22 hours earlier.

(Originally published at 9:11 a.m. PDT July 10, 2017)

On Sunday and Sunday night satellites did not find a great many large heat sources on the Alamo Fire east of Santa Maria, California. However they did detect a fair amount of heat on the south end and on the east side near the fire’s edge.

CAL FIRE is calling it 28,926 acres. Technically, that is an increase of about 5,000 acres over the previous 24 hours, but some of that could be due to more accurate mapping.

Portions of Highway 166 and Twitchel Canyon Road are closed. Mandatory evacuations are in effect for Tepusquet Canyon.

A sea breeze on Monday will moderate conditions to be more in favor of the firefighters. The prediction for the fire area is 80 degrees, a minimum relative humidity of 46 percent, and winds out of the west at 7 to 10 mph gusting up to 15.