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