California governor Jerry Brown is claiming that global warming is causing the current rash of severe, wind-driven wildfires in California.
It seems he is in conflict with the research of scientists at UCLA:
Another popular misconception that the winds are hot owing to their desert origin. Actually, the Santa Anas develop when the desert is relatively cold, and are thus most common during the cool season stretching from October through March.
High pressure builds over the Great Basin (e.g., Nevada) and the cold air there begins to sink. However, this air is forced downslope which compresses and warms it at a rate of about 10°C per kilometer (29°F per mile) of descent.
As its temperature rises, the relative humidity drops; the air starts out dry and winds up at sea level much drier still. The air picks up speed as it is channeled through passes and canyons.
Santa Anas can cause a great deal of damage. The fast, hot winds cause vegetation to dry out, increasing the danger of wildfire. Once the fires start, the winds fan the flames and hasten their spread.
The winds create turbulence and establish vertical wind shear (in which winds exhibit a substantial change in speed and/or direction with height), both posing aviation hazards.
The winds tend to make for choppy surf conditions in the Southern California Bight and often batter the north coast of Santa Catalina Island, including Avalon cove and the island’s airport.
Did you get that, Jerry? Cold winds east of the mountains are the cause of the Santa Ana winds. San Antonio, Texas just shattered a 102-year record for cold weather.
Where’s the “global warming,” Gov. Moonbeam?
Read more at American Thinker
Moonbeam is a Nit-Wit dumber then a Stump he is stuck in his of LALA LAND and has wax in his ears that prevents the Truth for getting in
Excellent Bruce. With my paucity of scientific knowledge I think you have described the phonomena of ‘Adiabatic Heating.’ A natural common weather movement in many parts of the world.
Cheers all
Here in Colorado there’s an Indian name for it–Chinook winds which translates to “Snow Eater”. In the winter we can see a foot or more of snow disappear in a day from these down-slope warming winds as the snow sublimates and heads towards Kansas.
It’s not fossil – fueled, it’s organic, firewood . Collecting firewood is an activity as old as those scorched, blackened hills.
But there’s no app for collecting firewood, so burn, Cali, burn.
Some people still use wood to heat their homes they cant afford the overly expensive Natural gas or electric heat that is made more expensive by stupid enviromental regulations but these Eco-Wackos would rather see people freeze over this Population Bomb lie from Paul Ehrlich or to these worshipers of GAIA humans are a abomination and need to go extinct