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The warm and cold flavors of Santa Ana winds are generally rooted in the same dynamics. But cold Santa Ana wind events, Houk said, are driven by mid- and upper-level low pressure and colder air aloft.
In the last few decades, Santa Ana winds have been associated with several large wildfire clusters, including the 2007 Witch Creek fire, the 2008 Sayre fire and the 2017 Thomas fire, which was the ...
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".
Santa Ana winds are katabatic, gravity-driven winds, draining air off the high deserts, while the Diablo-type wind originates mainly from strongly sinking air from aloft, pushed toward the coast by higher pressure aloft. Thus, Santa Anas are strongest in canyons, whereas a Diablo wind is first noted and blows strongest atop the various mountain ...
Santa Ana winds, which occur when winds blow and pick up speed as they travel from the inland deserts toward the coast, can have wide-reaching impacts in the Los Angeles area during the fall and ...
The Bel Air Fire was a disaster that began as a brush fire on November 6, 1961, in the Bel Air community of Los Angeles.The fire destroyed 484 homes and burned 6,090 acres (24.6 km 2) [1] At least 200 firemen were injured, with mostly eye injuries due to the smoke and flying embers. [2]
Strong northeasterly winds, known as Santa Ana, will howl through the mountains and canyons of Southern California into Thursday, igniting a wildfire risk not seen for years in the region ...
Santa Ana winds may also refer to: Santa Ana Wind, 2012 song by Everclear; Santa Ana Winds, 1980 song by The Beach Boys; Santa Ana Winds, 1984 album by Steve Goodman; Santa Ana Winds FC, a soccer team in the United Premier Soccer League; Santa Ana Winds Youth Band, a marching band based in Orange County, California; See also. Santa Ana ...