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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".
The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast. California 's coastal regions, the Sierra Nevada foothills, and much of the Central Valley have a Mediterranean climate, with warmer, drier weather in summer and cooler, wetter weather in winter.
September 29, 2024 at 4:21 PM. LOS ANGELES - Southern California is welcoming October with unseasonably warm temperatures this week as another heat wave moves into the region, according to the ...
2024–25. The 2023–24 North American winter was the warmest winter on record across the contiguous United States, with below-average snowfall primarily in the Upper Midwest and parts of the Northeastern United States. However, some areas, especially in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York saw considerably more snow than the ...
Swain and Gleick both stress that human beings are not good at predicting weather more than a few days in advance. But the arrival of one or more warm atmospheric rivers in California over the ...
California’s only native sunfish, the Sacramento perch, survived catastrophic floods in the 1860s and was so abundant that it was a regular staple in San Francisco’s markets before invasive ...
Heat wave. A high pressure system in the upper atmosphere traps heat near the ground, forming a heat wave (for North America in this example) A heat wave[1] or heatwave, [2] sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather. [3]: 2911 Definitions vary but are similar. [4] A heat wave is usually measured relative to the ...
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