Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ncr-sd!greg From: greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Next: USENIX Conf Message-ID: <2349@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Date: 11 Jul 88 03:50:43 GMT References: <707@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <6126@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <1074@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU> <5587@utah-cs.UUCP> Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo Lines: 11 In article <5587@utah-cs.UUCP> donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley) writes: >For non-Californians: The Santa Ana is a hot dry wind that blows in >from the desert to the east and turns winter into summer. .... A common misconception. In fact, the Santa Ana is a \cold/ \polar/ wind. It gets hot and dry by losing altitude over the mountains, and it ends up coming from the east due to the Coreolus (sp?) effect. Another bit of trivia: the name is a corruption of "santana;" I've heard several stories as to why the name became corrupted, but I don't really believe any of them. -- -- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo Greg.Noel@SanDiego.NCR.COM or greg@ncr-sd