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The Santa Ana wind is a blustery, dry and warm (often hot) wind that blows out of the desert. Named after Southern California's Santa Ana Canyon and a fixture of local legend and literature, the Santa Ana is a blustery, dry and warm (often hot) wind that blows out of the desert. In Raymond Chandler's story Red Wind, the title being one of the offshore wind's many nicknames, the Santa Anas were introduced as "those hot dry [winds] that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen." Local legends associate the hot, dry winds with homicides and earthquakes, but these are myths. (See note below regarding naming.) Another popular misconception that the winds are hot owing to their desert origin. Actually, the Santa Anas develop when the desert is cold, and are thus most common during the cool season stretching from October through March. High pressure builds over the Great Basin (e.g., Nevada) and the cold air there begins to sink. However, this air is forced downslope which compresses and warms it at a rate of about 10C per kilometer (29F per mile) of descent. As its temperature rises, the relative humidity drops; the air starts out dry and winds up at sea level much drier still. The air picks up speed as it is channeled through passes and canyons. Santa Anas can cause a great deal of damage. The fast, hot winds cause vegetation to dry out, increasing the danger of wildfire. Once the fires start, the winds fan the flames and hasten their spread. The winds create turbulence and establish vertical wind shear (in which winds exhibit substantial change in speed and/or direction with height), both posing aviation hazards. The winds tend to make for choppy surf conditions in the Southern California Bight, and often batter the north coast of Santa Catalina Island, including Avalon cove and the island's airport.
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∙ 13y agoThe Santa Ana winds are a build up of air pressure between the Great Basin and the Rocky Mountains. They travel to the coast through areas such as the Mohave desert.
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∙ 14y agoThey are winds that are sent off shore
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What actors and actresses appeared in Santa Ana Winds - 2010?
The cast of Santa Ana Winds - 2010 includes: Kelly Donohue as Claire Karwoski Maggie Mae Reid as Bianca Rene Parker as Tonya
What do the Santa Ana winds and fohn have in common?
they are both dry and hot wind levels
What is a special dry warm wind that blows from the rocky mountains down into the valleys below called?
These winds are called the Santa Ana winds and they are very dry. They are often associated with fanning wildfires and are sometimes called devil winds.
What is ana-fronts?
In meteorology, ana-fronts are areas where the warm sector air is rising, and a succession of cloud types and precipitation results.
What are the sirocco mistral and Chinook?
Names for winds.Answer:The Chinook is a strong, warm dry wind that blows east from the Rocky Mountains into southern Alberta and the American states just south of the Province. The wind can raise the temperature of the prairies from a winter low of -35C to 0C or higher in a matter of hours. Cowboy legends tell of horses and sleighs running before an oncoming Chinook with the front of the runners in a yard of snow and the back ends kicking up the dust of the bare road, and of ranchers hitching their horses to a post sticking out of the snow and coming back after an hour of Chinook winds to find the poor critter dangling from the cross on top of the local church.The coming of a Chinook is usually marked by a band of clear sky to the West (over the mountains) and clouds overhead. This is the Chinook Arch. Like "der Föhn" the Chinook is said to kick up headaches, arthritis flare ups, mood swings, and troubles in the kitchen from baking which mysteriously fails to raise. Many local residents claim to predict coming Chinooks by these signs (or at least blame their pain, bad tempers, and flat cakes on the Chinook.)The rapid temperature changes impact plants by alternately freezing and thawing tree trunks, drying the soil. Gardening books like "Gardening under the Arch" are popular in areas affected by Chinooks.On the geogpaphic sude, similar winds are found in many parts of the world and have may different names:Northern Mediterranean areas: SiroccoArgentina: Zonda winds iUnited States and Canada: Chinook windsNew Zealand: The Nor'westerWollongong and South Coast, NSW Australia: FöhnCarpathian Mountains: HalnyCatalan Pyrenees: Fogony in theSouth Africa: Bergwind inCantabrian region (northern Spain): Viento del Sur (Southern Wind)Málaga (southern Spain): TerralAustrian and Germany: FöhnChile: Puelche windItaly: FavonioCumbria: The Helm wind,Gilan region, in the south of Caspian Sea in Iran: GarmooshSouthern California: The Santa Ana winds
When was Santa Ana Winds Youth Band created?
Santa Ana Winds Youth Band was created in 1971.
What day is it the hottest?
when there is santa ana winds.
Is it Santa Ana winds or Santana winds it is your belief that they originally were called Santana winds devil winds Satan winds then when Disneyland opened in 1959 near the city of Santa Ana ca people?
Your belief is wrong. The phrase "Santa Ana winds" is attested in newspapers LONG before "Santana winds" was; Santa Ana is the original version, and "Santana" is a later corruption of the term.Also, "Santana" does not mean "devil" ... in fact it's more or less the opposite. "Santa Ana" means "Saint Anne", and in Spanish vowels which occur together like that are elided, so instead of pronouncing "Santa Ana" as is done in English ... "san-taa-na" ... it's just "san-ta-na".The winds are probably named for the Santa Ana canyon, one of the locations where they are particularly strong.
Who sings Santa Ana winds?
YA MUM!!!
What does the Santa Ana winds create?
The Santa Ana's are warm, dry winds. Aside from a temperature change, they create conditions conducive to wildfires, and make those fires harder to fight.
A wind that can be spelled the same way backwards?
Ana (As in the Santa Ana winds in Southern California)
What are some wind patterns of southern California?
santa ana winds
During what time of year are Santa Ana winds most common?
If the movie - The Holiday is accurate... the Santa Ana winds were at Christmas time, so I guess it would Winter. Answer Autumn and early Winter
What actors and actresses appeared in Santa Ana Winds - 2010?
The cast of Santa Ana Winds - 2010 includes: Kelly Donohue as Claire Karwoski Maggie Mae Reid as Bianca Rene Parker as Tonya
What do the Santa Ana winds and fohn have in common?
they are both dry and hot wind levels
Did Santa Anna go to Texas to fight for independence?
No, he went to punish the Texans for their revolt. ============================= Santa Ana's name is spelled "Ana" instead of "Anna." The vicious winds that whip through California, Arizona and Nevada in the summer and fall are named the Santa Ana winds after this president of Mexico.
How do you spell san ta Anna?
The Mexican general and intermittent president was Santa Anna (Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1794-1876).The dry winds that blow east-to-west in southern California are the Santa Ana winds. The same spelling, Santa Ana, is used for the city in Orange County, CA.
