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The Santa Anas are katabatic winds (Greek for "flowing downhill") arising in higher altitudes and blowing down towards sea level. [7] The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as "a weather condition [in southern California] in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions".
At Hanford, this possibility was dealt with by constructing a 30-mile (48 km) escape road to evacuate the staff were this to occur, abandoning the site. [40] Lacking any location where a 30-mile area could be abandoned if a similar event were to occur in the UK, the designers desired a passively safe cooling system.
Flames race up the hill as the plume of smoke from the new Hughes Fire fills the sky on the east side of Interstate 5 freeway in Castaic, a northwestern neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2025.
Smoke around the Treasure Valley and across the Pacific Northwest is coming from multiple fires. These sources show where.
As winds shift, residents in areas particularly in Sussex County on Thursday sucked in the pungent smell of smoke from the Jennings Creek Wildfire.
Inversion-created smog in Nowa Ruda, Poland, 2017 Temperature inversion phenomenon in the early morning near Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia where smoke that was emitted from an oil palm mill stayed close to the ground. The wind carried the smoke in the direction of the nearby settlement to the middle-right of the photo (August 2023).
The effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America, in September 2008, were unusually intense and included widespread damage across all or parts of eleven states – Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, [1] Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, (not including Louisiana and Texas where the storm made landfall) and into parts of Ontario as Ike, which ...
Thick smoke can be seen in the skies for miles after a wind turbine caught fire close to Suffolk. Footage captured from North Denes Beach in Lowestoft, Suffolk on 15 August shows the offshore ...