Word: anas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Return of the Gunfighter, starring Robert Taylor, Chad Everett and Ana Martin, is another in the series of movies made for TV premiering...
Most of the desert air is pushed through the mountain passes (one of which, the Santa Ana canyon, gave the wind its name), where it picks up speed before roaring out into the Los Angeles basin at velocities as high as 100 m.p.h. The remainder flows over the mountains and down the western slopes. Descending toward low-lying coastal areas, the air is compressed and heated-five degrees for every 1,000 ft. of descent. As a result, the Santa Anas often bring 100° temperatures with them-though temperatures in the Great Basin where they started may have been...
Irrational Behavior. Santa Ana-like phenomena are not confined to Southern California. Similar hot, dry wind sweeping down mountain slopes is called "foehn" (pronounced, approximately, fain) in Austria and Germany, "chinook" along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, "sky sweeper" on Majorca, "khamsin" in Israel, and "the Canterbury northwester" in New Zealand...
Since mid-September, the hot, arid "Santa Ana winds" had whistled westward through the mountain passes half a dozen times, raising Los Angeles temperatures to unseasonable levels, unnerving residents, roasting the hillside shrubs and trees until they were tinder dry. As the winds rose once again last week, the stage was set for disaster...
...brush and started a fire. Winds up to 50 m.p.h. quickly whipped blazes into conflagrations that ruined 2,100 acres of the Angeles National Forest, killed 14 fire fighters and severely burned twelve others. Even those not directly threatened by the flames felt the wrath of the Santa Ana. Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles rose to a stifling 100°; extremely low humidity dried the throats, chapped the lips, and helped bring an unaccustomed irritability to untold millions of Southern Californians...