I lived in SoCal in the 80s. I kow what goes on there.
Have you noticed that the most severe wildfires are in Northern California? Sebastopol? Paradise Valley?
Santa Ana Winds are not affecting those regions.
These are not normal fires. The wildfire season has passed for where most of the ongoing wildfires occur.
Are we clearer now?
Well they use to call the winds in Northern Calif Santa Ana winds but did change it to the following.
Diablo wind is a name that has been occasionally used for the hot, dry wind from the northeast that typically occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, during the spring and fall. The same wind pattern also affects other parts of California’s coastal ranges. The term first appeared shortly after the 1991 Oakland firestorm, perhaps to distinguish it from the comparable, and more familiar, hot dry wind in Southern California known as the Santa Ana winds. In fact, in decades previous to the 1991 fire, the term “Santa Ana” was occasionally used as well for the Bay Area dry northeasterly wind,[1] such as the one that was associated with the 1923 Berkeley Fire.[2]
Fall is our fire season.