From the LA TIMES:
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Santa Anas may join the parade
December 31, 2007 | Scott Gold, Times Staff Writer
The Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl have long served as Southern California's annual infomercials, as millions of people around the world gather around their television sets to marvel at the floats and the football -- but also to wonder how it could possibly be so darn sunny in the middle of the winter. This year, though, the parade and the game could feature another trademark of Southern California weather: Santa Ana winds.
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Red-flag fire danger lurks under blue skies in Los Angeles
January 11, 2009 | Hector Becerra
Santa Ana winds left Southern California skies sunny and blue Saturday but kept firefighting strike teams on the lookout for any hint of fire as brush-covered hillsides quickly dried out in rising temperatures. No major brush fires were reported in the region by Saturday night. A red-flag warning issued by the National Weather Service for Los Angeles and Ventura counties is expected to persist until about 4 p.m. today, when temperatures are expected to reach the low 80s in some places.
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Word for the Week: Warm : Santa Ana Winds and Sunny Skies Are Expected to Stick Around
February 25, 1992 | KRISTINA LINDGREN and AJOWA N. IFATEYO, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Dig out a few more warm-weather clothes, because balmy temperatures and sunny skies are expected to dominate Orange County this week. Unseasonably warm winds blowing from the northeast continued to push moist marine air out to sea Monday, meteorologists said. That allowed the mercury to climb to 87 degrees in Santa Ana, which shared the mantle as the nation's hot spot. But the warm Santa Ana winds that had raked the Southland with gusts to nearly 60 m.p.h.
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3 Die as 75 M.P.H. Santa Ana Winds Bowl Over Trucks
January 8, 1986 | SEBASTIAN DORTCH and JERRY BELCHER, Times Staff Writers
Two Florida men were killed Tuesday when 75 m.p.h. Santa Ana winds overturned their tractor-trailer truck on Interstate 8, 40 miles east of San Diego. Another driver was killed in Riverside County when the wind slammed his twin-trailer truck into a guard rail on Interstate 15 east of Ontario. The California Highway Patrol reported that six other vehicles were also bowled over by high winds roaring out of the desert in Southern California.
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86--L.A. Record Set With Aid of Santa Ana Winds
February 7, 1987
As might have been suspected, the temperature set a record in Los Angeles Civic Center on Friday, reaching 86 degrees as hot Santa Ana winds whipped down out of the deserts. The previous maximum reading for Feb. 6 was 34 years ago, when it was 84. Winds were strong below the canyons. Some gusts in the Tehachapis and around the mountains of San Diego County were 60 m.p.h. Wind advisories were also issued for many other Southland mountain areas, where gusts were 20 to 40 m.p.h.
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