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What precisely is a purple flag warning? What are mountain waves? What that you must know

Editorial Board Published January 8, 2025
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This week’s dire climate forecasts, and public security warnings, are stuffed with some unfamiliar phrases and abbreviations. Listed here are a couple of and what they imply, per the Nationwide Climate Service, UCLA and the Sierra Membership.

Santa Ana winds: Dry, downslope winds from the north, northeast or east that blow from the desert towards the ocean in Southern California, normally from October to March.

The winds are sometimes heat up and generally flip scorching — however not at all times. The present Santa Ana occasion is chilly, as a result of it drew a lot of chilly air from Canada. Southern California ski resorts could simply be capable of make snow over the following few days.

The Santa Anas vary from weak to excessive in energy. Previously, the winds have gusted greater than 90 mph in San Diego County’s Cuyamaca Mountains.

Mountain waves: The present wind occasion originated within the Nevada and Utah areas of the Nice Basin, the place excessive stress produced winds which can be flowing into Southern California.

That’s resulting in the creation of mountain waves, which come up when sturdy winds blow perpendicular to a mountain vary. The waves shoot down the coastal aspect of the mountains, gaining pace alongside the way in which, and are extra casually known as easy Santa Ana winds.

Excessive wind warning: Such a warning is issued when forecasters anticipate both sustained winds of 40 mph for no less than an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or extra.

A excessive wind watch, then again, is issued when winds are anticipated to be weaker however gusty.

Purple flag climate warning: A Nationwide Climate Service alert that warns the general public — particularly hearth officers and firefighters — that sturdy winds are anticipated in particular areas of Southern California, and that there might be doubtlessly harmful hearth climate situations inside the subsequent 12 to 24 hours.

Such an alert is normally issued when a mixture of excessive winds, low humidity and excessive temperatures is predicted — however that’s not at all times the case. The present warning was issued as a result of forecasters anticipate sturdy winds and low humidity to hit terrain that’s unusually dry as a consequence of an absence of rain.

A lot of San Diego County is roofed by chaparral, essentially the most flammable type of vegetation within the U.S.

“Particularly dangerous situation” (PDS): A rarely-used time period meaning particular areas may very well be struck by excessive, damaging climate — on this case, the Santa Ana winds.

On Monday, Nationwide Climate Service in Los Angeles issued a PDS for areas in and close to Los Angeles County. That alert was adopted on Tuesday by an enormous wildfire in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, south of Malibu.

Public security energy shutoffs (PSPS): Chances are you’ll be extra accustomed to this related abbreviation for a unique time period.

Public security energy shutoffs confer with deliberate outages that happen when utilities akin to San Diego Gasoline & Electrical preemptively shut off energy provide to some traces to stop wildfires from sparking.

Recognizing: This refers to how fires can throw off sparks that drift within the air, then settle, igniting extra fires — often called spot fires.

Firenado: Forecasters outline this as a short-lived, spinning column of fireside, ash and smoke that may resemble a twister. This climate phenomenon happens when a wildfire or different supply of intense warmth causes scorching air to spin and create a column of fireside.

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