A cool sea breeze and thick morning fog provided some relief Saturday for crews battling the wildfire that has destroyed scores of homes along the California coast and forced thousands to evacuate. The fog rolled in from the ocean early Saturday and blanketed the lower elevation areas of the fire.

“It wasn’t expected,” said Sarah Gibson, Santa Barbara county public information officer. “It was a nice, thick, wet flow.”

However, the fog was expected to burn off by midmorning, and the National Weather Service issued a wind advisory warning that wind could gust to 20 to 25 mph in the Santa Ynez mountain range.

Humidity is expected to remain low in the higher slopes although not as low as in previous days.