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  2. 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".

  3. What makes the Santa Ana winds so destructive? - AOL

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    The Santa Ana winds form in a western area of the country known as the Great Basin, which includes Nevada and part of Utah. The basin sits at a higher elevation than Southern California.

  4. Prevailing winds - Wikipedia

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    Prevailing winds are strongly influenced by Earth's overall atmospheric circulation, in addition to smaller-scale and shorter-lived weather phenomena. In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction. The dominant winds are the trends in direction of wind ...

  5. What causes the Santa Ana winds — and how they fuel ... - AOL

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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 ...

  6. 3 reasons California's wildfires got so dangerous so fast - AOL

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    The three areas impacted by the raging wildfires have one thing in common: They sit at the edges of mountain regions the Santa Ana winds whip through. 3 reasons California's wildfires got so ...

  7. List of mountain peaks of New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Santa Fe Mountains: 13,108 ft 3995.2 m: ... San Mateo Mountains: 11,305 ft 3445.9 m: ... List of mountain peaks of New Mexico.

  8. What are the Santa Ana winds that are fueling devastating ...

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    The National Weather Service has issued an extreme weather warning for parts of southern California due to the Santa Anas winds fueling the flames.. It said that the time period of the greatest ...

  9. Samalayuca Dune Fields - Wikipedia

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    Samalayuca Dune field, 2018. See detail image, below. Scale bar is 5 km. Samalayuca dunes detail. Scale bar (lower left) is 1 km. The Samalayuca Dune Fields, more traditionally known as Los Médanos (the dunes), or more recently referenced as Médanos de Samalayuca are a series of large but separated fields of sand dunes located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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