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  2. Diablo wind - Wikipedia

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    The Diablo wind is created by the combination of strong inland high pressure at the surface, strongly sinking air aloft, and lower pressure off the California coast. The air descending from aloft as well as from the Coast Ranges compresses as it sinks to sea level where it warms as much as 20 °F (11 °C), and loses relative humidity.

  3. Pressure-wind relationship calculations for tropical cyclones

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    Pressure-wind relations can be used when information is incomplete, forcing forecasters to rely on the Dvorak Technique. [6] Some storms may have particularly high or low pressures that do not match with their wind speed. For example, Hurricane Sandy had a lower pressure than expected with its associated wind speed. [7]

  4. Beaufort scale - Wikipedia

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    where v is the equivalent wind speed at 10 metres above the sea surface and B is Beaufort scale number. For example, B = 9.5 is related to 24.5 m/s which is equal to the lower limit of "10 Beaufort". Using this formula the highest winds in hurricanes would be 23 in the scale.

  5. What are Diablo winds? - AOL

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    Diablo, a Spanish word which translates to devil in English, is also the name of a mountain in Contra Costa County, which is where these winds originate."Mount Diablo is an actual mountain peak ...

  6. Wind speed - Wikipedia

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    An anemometer is commonly used to measure wind speed. Global distribution of wind speed at 10m above ground averaged over the years 1981–2010 from the CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ data set [1] In meteorology, wind speed, or wind flow speed, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity caused by air moving from high to low pressure, usually due to changes in ...

  7. Santa Ana winds - Wikipedia

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    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".

  8. 'Diablo wind' in California could spark fires, lead to power ...

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    "Diablo wind" is the local name for hot, dry winds from the northeast that sometimes hit the San Francisco Bay area and central coastal of California, especially in the spring and fall.

  9. Maximum sustained wind - Wikipedia

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    In most tropical cyclone basins, use of the satellite-based Dvorak technique is the primary method used to estimate a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds. [5] The extent of spiral banding and difference in temperature between the eye and eyewall is used within the technique to assign a maximum sustained wind and pressure. [6]