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The LA wildfires risk spreading as extreme winds pick up speed. More than 92,000 people are under evacuation orders, California officials warned. ... Los Angeles braces for fires to get even worse ...
Red Flag warnings advising of extreme wildfire danger expired across the Los Angeles area late on Wednesday but one remained for an area east of the metro area, where winds were expected to be 15 ...
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".
Recently, the wind speeds were re-examined and adjusted to a maximum official wind speed of 321 mph (516.6 km/h). [ 313 ] A DOW calculation of a subvortice of the 2013 El Reno tornado was estimated in a range of 257–336 mph (414–541 km/h) in 2024.
Despite milder-than-predicted conditions during much of the day, wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph in the mountains and 30 to 50 mph on the coasts and valleys are still forecast for Los Angeles and ...
For power contracts made in the year 2014, the average price of wind power fell to 2.5¢/kWh. [42] The capacity factor is the ratio of power actually produced divided by the nameplate capacity of the turbines. The overall average capacity factor for wind generation in the US increased from 31.7% in 2008, to 32.3% in 2013. [43]
The Baltimore Sun's series of columns in 1934 attempted to examine the origin of the phrase "Hawkins is coming" for a cold, winter wind. The first recorded Chicago citation is in the Chicago Defender , October 20, 1936: "And these cold mornings are on us – in other words 'Hawkins' has got us."
Some 6.5 million people in the Los Angeles area were under a critical fire threat as winds were forecast to be 20 to 40 miles (32-64 km) an hour with gusts up to 70 mph and humidity dropping into ...