The winds form annually as cold air travels from the Great Basin to Southern California. This year's gusts were particularly widespread.Get more news
“It surmounted the San Gabriel Mountains, and it formed what is called a downslope windstorm,” he said. “That targeted the strongest winds for the foothills around Eaton Canyon.”
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Tripti Bhattacharya, an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Syracuse University, said her models don’t predict that Santa Ana winds will get worse this century. But they do predict more overlap between the winds and the fire season, she said, creating more opportunities for devastating blazes like the ones seen this week.
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