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Santa Ana winds

SFandH - 1-29-2012 at 08:05 AM

Or is it Santana winds?

Anyway, drove to Ensenada yesterday and it was a spectacular ride along the coast. Blue skies, warm air, large surf, strong off shore winds and some very impressive houses being built along the way.

I'm wondering how far south this weather pattern affects the weather. Warmer/drier than usual in San Quintin, Guerrero Negro, El Rosario, Asuncion, Mulege?

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RnR - 1-29-2012 at 08:12 AM

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Originally posted by SFandH

I'm wondering how far south this weather pattern affects the weather. Warmer/drier than usual in San Quintin, Guerrero Negro, El Rosario, Asuncion, Mulege?

[Edited on 1-29-2012 by SFandH]


It depends on the strength of the high pressure center driving the Santa Ana winds. They are typically caused by high pressure located somewhere near the "four corners" are of the US. A strong "Santa Ana" event can cause very windy conditions all the way down to the East Cape, a day or so behind the start of the Santa Ana's in Los Angeles.

larryC - 1-29-2012 at 08:40 AM

Down here in Bahia, the Santa Anna winds up there mean north winds to us. It is blowing right now.
Larry

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Russ - 1-29-2012 at 08:47 AM

39mph gust here at 5 am. Averaging around 20+ now. Not good for our first rummage sale in the new community center. There isn't any room left inside for the food and drink tables. Of what I hear it will be bigger & better than last year.

DENNIS - 1-29-2012 at 08:54 AM

Here...it's calm, warm and sunny. A "Chamber of Commerce" type of day. SALUD

LaTijereta - 1-29-2012 at 09:32 AM

Been nice over on the coast all week..:cool:

http://www.accuweather.com/en/mx/ciudad-constitucion/231802/...

Ken Bondy - 1-29-2012 at 09:36 AM

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Originally posted by SFandH
Or is it Santana winds?


When I was growing up in Southern California in the 40s and 50s it was always "Santana" winds. People would also use the term "devil winds". Somewhere after that it changed to "Santa Ana" winds. I have no idea why :)

DENNIS - 1-29-2012 at 11:10 AM

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I have no idea why :)


I went through the same confusion, Ken, and the explaination was always about the winds coming off the desert through Santa Ana Canyon and blowing hot and dry toward the west.
Every year we would have to shovel the beach sand out of the streets....at least once.

Santa Ana or Santana????

bajaguy - 1-29-2012 at 11:13 AM

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shari - 1-29-2012 at 11:57 AM

Calm & hot over on the mid Pac side today...swell going down too...yup, chamber of commerce day all righty...what the snow birds dream of in January!

tiotomasbcs - 1-29-2012 at 01:12 PM

Santana winds but not pronounced like the band. We would ditch school and head for the beach when the warm winds blew!:o Nice to have Shari back with her reports. Hot and glassy with 2/3 surf sessions for the dudes or until their arms fall off! West swell tossing precision lines left and right. No winds but it blows offshore most mornings. Stay thirsty mis Amigos. :spingrin: Tio

SFandH - 1-29-2012 at 01:55 PM

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Hot and glassy with 2/3 surf sessions for the dudes or until their arms fall off! West swell tossing precision lines left and right. No winds but it blows offshore most mornings. Stay thirsty mis Amigos. :spingrin: Tio


Sounds great Tiotomas, wish I was there. Haven't been to Pescadero since the 90s. What's a better (slower) break for an old longboarder these days, Cerritos or Pedrito?

El Jefe - 1-29-2012 at 04:04 PM

Spell it how you like, but where I come from (So. Cal) we say sanna anna winds are blowing today. The 'a' is pronounced like the a in can. No 't' to be found in the pronunciation.

Not much of a blow on the near east cape today. Small whitecaps going by out there left to right.

Bajahowodd - 1-29-2012 at 05:51 PM

When a huge cold high pressure system makes itself felt in the Southwest, the effects actually make all the way to Cabo.

That said, although I have also read a number of so-called erudite essays about the derivation of the name, it has always rung false for me that somehow Santa Ana Canyon would wear the crown, inasmuch as so much of the SoCal population is subject to such winds, all the way up to Ventura and beyond.

Give that downtown Los Angeles, Olvera Street area was the site of the original Spanish settlement, the Santa Ana Canyon answer just doesn't do it for me.