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    David Webb
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    Good detailed walk-through of our seasonal Santa Ana conditions – how and where they form, and why they do what they do:

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    As someone easily amused, I’ve always found it interesting that Santa Ana winds are the result of basically the same processes that make Diesel engines possible: compression causing heating.

    And of course the inverse makes cumulus clouds: expansion of rising air causing cooling until the dewpoint is reached.

    And again, easily amused by people proposing cloud seeding to put out fires when:

    A.)  There are no clouds, except clouds of smoke

    B.)  Relative humidity values are in the single digit range

    C.)  Air temperature and dewpoint are 60 degrees F apart.

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