FYI - What are the Santana or Santa Ana Winds?

OC Almanac ^

[red devil 40]

hi pressure, low pressure, tomato, tomAhto, illegal alien, undocumented worker, religion of peace, islamofacist.......

[Marie]

Santana Winds are Bush’s Wind’s. Bush is Satan.

LMAO!!

[Prowler Fowler]

Fiji

Interesting that you should mention that, always wondered why the high school year book is called the El Salano, and they try to say it means the east wind.

[NathanR]

The only people that called them “Santana” were influenced by the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Another account placed the origin of Santa Ana Winds with an Associated Press correspondent stationed in Santa Ana who mistakenly began using Santa Ana Winds instead of Santana Winds in a 1901 dispatch.

Even back in 1901 the MSM was mucking things up!

[Ready4Freddy]

Babylon Sisters.... shake it

[NathanR]

No. He got it right.

[La Enchiladita]

LOL. This is the annual debate, but there’s only one right way: Santa Ana.

[Alberta's Child]

ROFL.

[Wil H]

The Santa Ana winds are of a similar type to the French Mistral or the German Fohn winds. The Chinook is also an example.

[KC Burke]

I heard an aspect from a weatherman that I hadn’t known.

Besides the clockwise rotation of the high blowing the inland heated air, up over and down the coastal side of the mountains, besides the air heating due to dropping in elevation and gaining speed, and besides the venturi effect of the canyons on the coastal side focusing and increasing the speed, there is another issue that comes into play.

After the winds pick up at mid day and then start to weaken in late afternoon (typically) they often pick back up as the sun sets for another reason. The heated inland air has risen on the eastern side of the mountains as the afternoon heat has convected it into a high pressure ridge area. As the sun sets and the air starts to cool and fall, it rushes back over the mountains again causing some periods of Santa Anna winds to have two period of peak winds each day as they continue.

Not living there, I have to await someone from the area commenting to know if this coincides with their experience and first hand observations.

[Red Badger]

Who knows what they were called before 1901.

#$%@!^&* hot winds.....

[Red Badger]

If they are small winds, are they Santa Anita?.....

[La Enchiladita]

Si.

[drew]

I hate to admit it, but I laughed out loud when I read your post!

[Red Badger]

So, can you give me a HOT tip?

[NathanR]

effing hot winds

LOL

[Charles Martel]

Revenge for Sam Houston’s kicking his backside in San Jacinto!

Perhaps the Generalissimo wants his prosthetic leg returned.

No way, Jose'!

[i are a cowboy]

the real name is in fact Santana wind that is to say, Devil wind, because of the heat that is normally associated with the condition. The term Santa Ana wind is a misnomer.

[isrul]

I remember hearing another reason for the devil wind sobriquet is that they contain massive amounts of positive ions that some claim can cause some bizarre behavior.