SANTA ANA WINDS
The hot, dry winds, generally from the east, that funnel through the Santa Ana river valley south of the San Gabriel and San Bernadino Mountains in southern California, including the Los Angeles basin.
Santa Ana Wind
In southern California, a weather condition in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions.
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Santa Ana Wind A strong, hot, dry foehn-like wind that blows from the north, northeast, or east into southern California.
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In southern California, a weather condition in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions.
Santa Ana Wind: A hot, dry desert, foehn-type wind blowing from the northeast or east in the pass and river valley around Santa Ana, California. The wind may blow with great force and carry large amounts of dust.
Santa Ana A strong, hot, dry wind blowing out into San Pedro Channel from the southern California desert through Santa Ana Pass.
SANTA ANA WINDS: Relatively warm, dry winds that blow into Southern California coastal areas from an anticyclone located over the high deserts of California or Nevada. The warmth and dryness are due to compressional heating. See also Diablo winds.
Santa Ana wind A warm, dry wind that blows into southern California from the east off the elevated desert plateau. Its warmth is derived from compressional heating.
Santa Ana The local name given a foehn wind in southern California.
Santa Ana wind A hot, dry chinook-type wind that blows from the desert plateaus of Utah and Nevada downslope toward coastal southern California.
Santa Ana—A hot, dry, foehn wind, generally from the northeast or east, occurring west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains especially in the pass and river valley near Santa Ana, California.
Santa Ana Winds: Are downsloping warm dry winds, (Fohen) which occur when there is a large High Pressure System located over the Rocky Mountains.
Santa Ana winds and winds through passes from the cold Alaskan interior to the sea are examples of these winds. Channeled high winds are local in nature but can be extremely strong. These winds generally occur in well-defined areas.
" A similar wind on the Southern California coast is called the "Santa Ana." When the air in a valley cools by radiation at night, it becomes heavier than the air around it, and slides away, being replaced by warmer and lighter air from above.
Related terms: chinook wind and Santa Ana wind
FOG
A visible aggregate of minute water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the surface of the earth, reducing horizontal visibility to less than 5/8 statute miles.
When this air is warm, it may be called a foehn wind, and regionally it may be known as a Chinook or Santa Ana. When this air is cold or cool, it is called a drainage wind, and regionally it may be known as a mountain breeze or glacier wind.
DIABLO WINDS Dry winds in the Diablo mountain range in central California that can exceed 60 miles per hour. Similar to the Santa Ana winds, ...
These may be further subdivided into barrier jets, gap winds, downslope windstorms, and include such local phenomena as the tehuantepecer, Santa Ana, foehn, mistral, and bora.
Some regional winds such as the foehn (German and Austrian Alps), Chinook (Rocky Mountains), and Santa Ana (Southern California) are dry, warm katabatic winds.
temperature is increased as the wind descends down the slope. It is created when air flows downhill from a high elevation, raising the temperature by adiabatic compression. Classified as a katabatic wind. Related terms: chinook wind and Santa Ana ...
°C (36 °F) or more, and many of the world's "named" winds (see list below) belong to this group. Among the most well-known of these winds are the chinook of Western Canada and the American Northwest, the Swiss föhn, California's infamous Santa Ana ...
dry gusty winds that occasionally occur to the leeward side of mountain ranges around the world are known by many names. In Canada and the northern United States, they are referred to as Chinooks. In the southern states, they are known as Santa Ana ...
A thermal low over the US desert Southwest often produces strong and hot Santa Ana winds over California, but is completely cloud and moisture free. The actual definition of "storm" is often though of as any region of "bad" weather.
Diablo WindSimilar to Santa Ana winds in southern California. These winds occur below canyons in the East Bay hills (Diablo range) and in extreme cases can exceed 60 mph.
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