How common are 80 to 100 mph winds in LA?

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Santa Ana winds are a well known phenomenon out there but I imagine that strong is fairly rare. Large fires will suck in tremendous amounts of air as the hot air rises up.

  The fire bombings of cities in WW2 created similar firestorms. I remember a history book describing the winds being strong enough to send bodies tumbling through the streets like leaves.

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  • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bombing of Dresden in 1945

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• NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Very unusual. In the winter and spring Santa Anas are common but that’s more like 20-30 with gusts up to 50. Maybe gusts up to 60 in the canyon areas.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The fires generate their own wind from the convection of hot air rising.

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  is this, again, that same video that was posted many time on Lemmy like in here :
  lemmy.world/post/24211759

  …Showing McDonald Panels and Palm Trees on fire in high noisy wind…
  Here is a screenshot :
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  Video : aprox.(?) 854 x 482 pixels, 15 seconds, 3.79 MegaBytes, mp4 video with sound. Was film from behind some transparent panel ? ( maybe vehicle or shelter ? )

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I never experienced them when I lived down there for 15 years. But I was in the valley that all the fires currently surround. But yeah that was ages ago. The worst event I experienced was the Northridge earthquake. Global warming is crazy.

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