Posted on 11/06/2024 6:44:58 PM PST by BenLurkin
California was lashed by powerful winds Wednesday that fed a fast-moving wildfire that destroyed homes and forced hundreds of residents to flee while another fire burned near multimillion-dollar properties along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu as forecasters warned of the potential for "extreme and life-threatening" blazes.
Northwest of Los Angeles, the Mountain Fire exploded in size and prompted evacuation orders for suburban communities, ranches and agricultural areas near Santa Paula in southern Ventura County. A thick plume of smoke rose hundreds of feet into the sky, blanketing whole neighborhoods and limiting visibility for firefighters and evacuees.
At around 9:15 a.m. the blaze was mapped at just under 250 acres (100 hectares), and by 1:45 p.m. it was more than 35 times larger at over 14 square miles
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“Climate change” is at it again, I see.
Santa Ana winds.
We had them every year I lived there. Usually in October.
climate change is a myth created by the left- the fires are Trump’s Fault- according to the left-
I was hiking 300 miles NW of Malibu in the Santa Cruz Mountains today and the winds were fierce! “Windy Hill” was exceptionally windy today. No joke (as our favorite POTUS is wont to say). Fortunately, no fires up our way.
Guess who is responsible
These winds come in October/November almost every year, and have been for untold years. Sometimes terrible wildfires result. There are lots of hills and canyons and people choose to live there. Many of these fires have been started by arsonists.
Not ‘climate change’. Same old climate...
Well FEMA won’t be able to help.
One of my first fire lines when I worked formCDF was in Malibu Canyon. The Santa Anna winds kicked up and there was nothing you could do but get out of the way. The fire burned all the way to the ocean.
We are experiencing a typical Santa Ana wind—strong and dry. So far, there have been no brush fires in Orange County, where I live.
Interestingly, in Ventura County and places west of Los Angeles, Santa Ana winds are simply called east winds.
Sata Ana winds blowing?
Always seemed to get something going back when.
No, called them Santa Ana winds.for the 30+ years I lived in Ventura county.
Media has their own agenda.
A woman I know who lived in Santa Paula since she moved there in 1923 called them east winds, and so did everyone in her family—and they hit Santa Paula hard, blowing down the Santa Clara Valley. From what you’re saying, it seems the term “Santa Ana wind” has come west of the Santa Susana Pass and the Conejo Grade—quite a ways from Santa Ana.
Whatever, just relating what we who lived thaere called them.
The real cause is indeed an east wind the comes up over the San Gariel mountains, and heats up as it compresses coming down the west side..
Amazingly hot and dry air.
Mother Nature is capricious. It hasn’t rained here on The Jersey Shore for most of the summer and now into fall.
Dry as a bone.
Mother Nature is capricious. It hasn’t rained here on The Jersey Shore for most of the summer and now into fall.
Dry as a bone.
according to liberals, that is Trump’s fault too-
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