Santa Ana Winds are offshore winds, these winds weren't offshore. It was a forming vortex over Southern California. Is every wind event in California Santa Ana Winds? That is silly. If I may?
Michael D. Antonovich, chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, made the declaration Thursday afternoon after Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Monrovia, Temple City, San Marino and Glendora declared their own emergencies.
The foothill cities in the northern San Gabriel Valley were hit hardest by the windstorm, as winds from the north knocked over utility poles and century-old trees....
Santa Ana winds occur when air moves offshore at speeds up to 50 mph. These were not offshore winds. The reason the Santa Ana winds are so high in velocity is because there is nothing standing in their way. They are blowing into an open ocean. Below is a photograph by NASA of Santa Ana winds from 2002, I think. I mean what is this mess, it's Christmas season so it must be Santa Ana? Silly.
On January 6, 2002, (click here) Santa Ana winds blew dust from interior deserts and other dry areas out over California and the Pacific Ocean. This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite shows streamers of dust blowing southwestward over the Los Angeles metropolitan area, which is roughly centered in the top half of the image....
Below is a UNISYS satellite that clearly illustrates wind blowing from southwest USA toward the northwest while forming a vortex over Southern California.
December 1, 2011
2130.16z
UNISYS Visual GOES West Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
Those are not not offshore winds. They don't remotely compare to sincere Santa Ana winds. This is a hemispheric event.
The continental winds are best seen on a USA satellite below. This is a satellite from 12 hours ago.
December 1, 2011
1230.13z
UNISYS infrared USA Satellite
The satellite below is the current satellite.
December 2, 2011
0030.25z
UNISYS Infrared USA Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
There is a sharp contract in air movement in 12 hours. The air mass is moving from southwest to northwest.
Where it gets really interesting is when the 12 hour loop is noted. There is some air moving offshore over the Baha as the nortwest North American continent is receiving a huge blast of arctic air, currently over western Canada and heading south. It looks like a nasty arctic air mass, too. But, the wind event is not NORMAL Santa Ana winds, it is a hemispheric wind event connected with the continued turbulance of the arctic air mass.
...“These strong winds, (click here) which blow from the land out into the ocean, cause cold water to rise from the bottom of the ocean to the top, bringing with it many nutrients that ultimately benefit local fisheries,” said Dr. Timothy Liu, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and QuikSCAT project scientist....
There are biological components to Santa Ana winds as well. Either they are or they ain't; there is no in between.
The wind event was misinterpreted as is the case in so many climate events of Earth under a Climate Crisis troposphere. Just because the event 'seems like' the real thing, doesn't mean it is. A major part of the problem is that the language of climatology is limited to 'normal climate' terms and simply doesn't have the language to state what these events actually are.
Santa Ana winds are a form of katabatic winds that sweep down from high elevations to the ocean. That is not what is occurring here. When sand and dust are carried from the desert to the oceans it contains all kinds of minerals and debris that interprets into nutrients. This is not occurring with this event. The winds did not originate from dry areas or from high elevations.
