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Southern California was battered late Tuesday and early Wednesday by abnormally strong Santa Ana winds roaring down the inland mountain slopes — with gusts reaching up to 100 mph, weather ...
On Monday, the National Weather Service forecasted a strong Santa Ana winds event for L.A. through Friday, with the strongest gusts, which were likely to down power lines, arriving Tuesday and ...
"Wind gusts are expected to peak at 30-50 mph across portions of Southern California" according to Fieweger. This would be the case for communities like Santa Clarita and Riverside.
Red flag warnings are in place for Southern California due to Santa Ana winds that will bring gusts up to 65 mph and “extremely rare and dangerous” fire weather conditions.
The Santa Anas are katabatic winds (Greek for "flowing downhill") arising in higher altitudes and blowing down towards sea level. [7] The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as "a weather condition [in southern California] in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions".
The events included Santa Ana winds of exceptional intensity, with forecasted gusts reaching 50 to 80 miles per hour (80 to 130 km/h; 22 to 36 m/s) in populated areas of the Los Angeles and Ventura counties, including the San Gabriel Valley and the Los Angeles Basin which in prior wind events had been protected by their lower elevations.
On Sunday morning, a wind gust of 73 mph was reported by the National Weather Service near Crestline, California, representing the strongest wind gust from the Santa Ana event thus far.
On August 30, 2012, a severe microburst hit in Moreno Valley, California, and winds gust to 90 mph squall line in Apple Valley, California. On July 19, 2013, a microburst hit in Las Vegas, Nevada causing severely knocked out trees and power lines. Wind gusts have been reported to reach 70-80 mph. [citation needed]