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Send some Santa Ana winds to central Minnesota! We could use a bit of snow melt.

Today’s high temp was in single digits AGAIN! Our total snowfall this season has been about 27 inches, but every inch is still on the ground. It’s truly so cold here that the sand, salt, and snow have become a soft mushy mix which is sort of oily feeling under your boots. Only one day above freezing since about Thanksgiving Day, and that was Dec. 26th with gloom and a faint mist in the air and temps about 35 degrees. Not much melting going on, but the snow depth shrunk a few inches. Most of the side roads are packed with about an inch of snow, and if we get rain, it will turn to solid ice.

I know this is all the fault of global warming. For this I’m supposed to purchase light bulbs with mercury in them which cost about 5 to 10 times the amount of incandescent bulbs. We would not want Minnesota to have any global warming, would we?

It's amazing how much language changes overtime. As you can see here the Santa Ana winds were more properly called....the "Santana" winds (three syllables, not four).

This story, in the L.A. times (48 years ago) shows that they were commonly called "The Santana Winds" (paragraph heading "climate, 1/2 way down story) at that time. They lost their distinctive name when a local meteorologist began calling them....erroneously, the Santa Ana Winds. Prior to that some folks called them the Santa Anas out of ignorance but they soon took on this pronunciation.

Dr. George Fischbeck, a (meteorologist) T.V. weatherman from Albuquerque, was hired by a local Los Angeles T.V. station in the late 60's/early 70's and he became a popular fixture on the "Eye Witness News" presentation nightly throughout the Southland. He had a very 'folksy' manner about him, people loved it....and he began calling the Santana Winds the "Santee Annies" and it took about a generation....but folks started referring to them as "The Santa Anas". Now.....the whole world does!

People who lived here in Southern California will tell you.....growing up, they knew them by their correct name.....The Santana Winds. Any history book or educational materiel on Meteorolgy, written prior to the sixties, will verify the correct pronunciation.

I still call them the "SAHN-TA-NAH" winds and people look at me like I'm crazy! LOL