#santa anas

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Santa Anas (2015) by Mark Beck

[sea-bandit]

Devil Wind

[kaoruyogi]

In-Santa Ana-ty

Close the door

Faster please

Don’t let the insanity in

Don’t let the in-Santa Any-ty in

 People joke

They write about the wind

That whirls in every direction at once

Because they don’t understand

 Not from Santa Ana

These wrong way winds

Blowing North, South, East, and West

Bringing ill on their current

 Air turns orange

Thick with smoke from a fire

It’s a hundred miles away

Blowing the wrong direction

 Sun is impolitic

Angry at the world below

It longs to beat down enough

Just enough to kill us

 People do

They kill in the winds

They go mad and collide

With the rest of the wrong way world

 My hair is redder

Ash or death gets in my eyes

It stings till I cry

I’m raw and restless and ready to succumb

 Close the door

Faster please

Don’t let the insanity in

Don’t let the in-Santa Ana-ty win 

We’re having a rough day here in Orange County. The Santa Anas are blowing and there’s a fire somewhere. I was taking out some of the trash while packing, and felt inspired to write something for a minute. Hope you liked it.

[waknatious]

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fuckin hell man can't catch a break 🙄

[corii-was-where]

Sitting here in the dark without power because the Santa Ana winds don’t know when to calm down.

[hypothetical-kazoos]

sorry i cant come into work today an evil wind is blowing

[fiftysevenacademics]

Triggering allergies, fraying nerves, and alarming fire-prone communities, the Santa Ana winds have long been a fact of life in Southern California – the unadvertised price residents pay for the region's otherwise idyllic weather. And though the winds – which arrive in the fall, peak in December, and depart in the spring -- are invisible to photographers' lenses, cameras have recorded the destruction this recurrent weather phenomenon has wrought throughout the region's history. Southern California usually sits in a delicate climatic balance. On one side, the chilly waters of the Pacific, transported from Alaska via the California Current, stabilize air temperatures and provide a ready source of moisture. On the other, a palisade of mountains blocks the extremes of the desert from coastal communities. The Santa Anas upset that balance, ushering in hot, dry, desert-like conditions. But while the Santa Anas are often called desert winds, the term is misleading; the winds are not simply blowing desert air over Southern California's coastal plain. Instead, Santa Anas result from a cool, dry air mass that hovers over the continental interior of the American West. When that air descends from the higher-elevation basins to sea level, it warms and becomes even drier. (A similar phenomenon, termed a föhn wind, warms Central Europe.) Funneled through the Cajon and San Gorgonio passes, the moving air gains speed and destructive power.

The Devil Wind: A Brief History of the Santa Anas

[fiftysevenacademics]

Santa Ana Winds occur when air from a region of high pressure over the dry, desert region of the southwestern U.S. flows westward towards low pressure located off the California coast. This creates dry winds that flow east to west through the mountain passages in Southern California. These winds are most common during the cooler months of the year, occurring from September through May. Santa Ana winds typically feel warm (or even hot) because as the cool desert air moves down the side of the mountain, it is compressed, which causes the temperature of the air to rise. These strong winds can cause major property damage. They also increase wildfire risk because of the dryness of the winds and the speed at which they can spread a flame across the landscape.

National Weather Service