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It is located in southern Santa Barbara County, California, about 33 miles (53 km) west of the city of Santa Barbara. [1] One of three state parks along the Gaviota Coast, it extends from the Pacific coast to the crest of the Santa Ynez Mountains, and is adjacent to Los Padres National Forest. The 2,787-acre (1,128 ha) park was established in 1953.
The Gaviota Creek watershed is the largest watershed along this coast and is the most important steelhead stream in Southern Santa Barbara County. [40] Refugio Creek is one of the larger coastal streams along the coast and descends through a mosaic of commercial orchards, ranches, and rural residential developments and crosses under Highway 101 ...
The etymology of the word sundowner is uncertain, but it may derive from the Spanish term zonda, or from the Arabic simoom, which are both similar wind phenomena. [5] It is also typically the case that sundowner winds commence in the evening near sunset, when onshore sea breezes abate and offshore flows such as the sundowners pick up.
The Gaviota Coast remains largely undeveloped and is the longest remaining rural coastline in southern California. [7] [8] In 2016, the twenty-one miles of Highway 101 that runs through the Gaviota Coast, bounded by the City of Goleta’s western boundary and Las Cruces where Route 1, was declared a State Scenic Highway.
The fast-moving low-pressure system brought a broken line of convective showers to the county Wednesday afternoon, eventually reaching wind speeds as high as 60 mph, the National Weather Service said.
The National Weather Service Los Angeles is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties, as well as adjacent coastal waters out 60 nautical miles. [1]
The Santa Ynez Mountains extend east (left) towards Santa Barbara. Point Conception Light stands on a bluff 133 feet (41 m) above the Pacific Ocean. Aerial photo of the lighthouse, looking toward the northwest. Point Conception (Chumash: Humqaq) is a headland along the Gaviota Coast in southwestern Santa Barbara County, California, United
After wind speeds lessened over the weekend and firefighters made progress against ... according to the National Weather Service. Winds in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties could ...