How do Santa Anas form?
These winds occur in the fall and winter when a high pressure system develops in the Great Basin of the interior West as a low-pressure system sets up just off the Pacific. The difference in pressure creates the winds. The winds move in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow that car- ries cool, moist air from the Pacific Ocean into the region.
What causes the wind speed?
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