{"id":319931,"date":"2024-12-16T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=319931"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T06:12:58","slug":"santa-ana-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/santa-ana-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Ana Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Santa Ana winds-driven wildfires have burned over 4,000 acres and impacted approximately 22,000 people in the coastal town of Malibu, California.<\/p>\n<h2>About Santa Ana Winds<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_319934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319934\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-319934\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Santa-Ana-winds.png?resize=421%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Santa Ana Winds\" width=\"421\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Santa-Ana-winds.png?w=686&amp;ssl=1 686w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Santa-Ana-winds.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- latimes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Definition<\/strong>&#8211; Santa Ana winds are <em>dry and warm (often hot) winds<\/em> in the Southern California area that blow in from the desert &#8212; which includes the Great Basin of the western United States, incorporating Nevada and part of Utah.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seasonal Occurrence<\/strong>&#8211; Santa Ana conditions can occur whenever the Great Basin is cooler than Southern California, <em>usually between September and May<\/em>. However, they are<em> most notable in October<\/em>, as Southern California&#8217;s climate during autumn increases the risk of wildfires.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Formation and effect:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Santa Ana winds occur when <em>high pressure forms over the Great Basin<\/em>, located between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, while <em>low pressure develops along California&#8217;s coast<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>This <em>pressure difference drives strong winds<\/em> from the inland deserts of the Basin, east and north of Southern California, over the mountains toward the Pacific Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>As the winds move down the mountains, they <em>compress and heat up, causing their humidity to drop<\/em>, often below 20% and sometimes even below 10%.<\/li>\n<li>The resulting dry conditions turn vegetation into highly flammable material, which contributed to fueling the flames in Malibu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Santa Ana winds-driven wildfires have burned over 4,000 acres and impacted approximately 22,000 people in the coastal town of Malibu, California. About Santa Ana Winds Definition&#8211; Santa Ana winds are dry and warm (often hot) winds in the Southern California area that blow in from the desert &#8212; which includes the Great Basin of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/santa-ana-winds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santa Ana Winds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":319934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-319931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Santa-Ana-winds.png?fit=686%2C456&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}