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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:

    #21489
    Tim Ward
    General Member

    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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