Southern California Weather Force issued an Enhanced Santa Ana Wind Warning for a large portion of Southern California’s metro areas starting Thursday evening and going through Friday. Another one of the strongest wind events of the season will hit and you need to know the details on where the worst will be and what is recommended not to do for your own safety so read on for details … Keep in mind this will BE NEAR OR EQUAL THE WIND EVENT WE HAD ON JANUARY 21-22 THIS YEAR. You have been WARNED if you were hit hard with that one. I am HIGHLY appalled the no-brains at NOAA only have a wind advisory for this event and not a High Wind Warning, not even an advisory for areas like ANZA which is clearly in a category 7 out of 8! The rest of you, you know what to do … get the word out because the media won’t do it …
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DISCUSSION: A storm system moving into Arizona will generate strong northerly winds on the western periphery. This is a classic upper, thermal, and gradient support Santa Ana Wind Event, so much so these are where the most dangerous patterns come from if you are not familiar with the area.
This means the Extreme Northern San Gabriel Valley will have the winds as well when normally you do not. Upper support gives what is called a mountain rotor (wave). Mountain waves are like horizontal tornadoes just to the south of the mountains with a north wind like this. This slams air downward, a reason the areas near the Southern Los Angeles and San Bernardino Mountains will see the strongest winds. The strongest metro winds will be Chaffey College, in Ranch Cucamonga and then again in the Orange County area around Rancho Santa Margarita.
The Cajon Pass will have wind gusts strong enough to tip high profile vehicles up. If you feel you need to travel up there in a high profile vehicle take the 215 because I-15 from I-10 to the bottom of the pass will tip you over, no escaping that one. But, if you take the 215 from the 60 you will escape the strongest winds until the bottom of the Cajon Pass where the game will be over. This wind event is what I call a complete no way out zone. I-5 through the Santa Clarita Valley will be too dangerous to travel in a high profile vehicle, same with the Cajon and even Banning Pass. All freeways leading out of the Los Angeles Metro zones will have winds strong enough to tip you over. High profile is for truckers and/or campers. If you want to beat the winds, beat them before evening Thursday or you are stuck and I would not recommend going up the passes then.
ALL Desert areas will also have the gusty winds. This is an interesting event where even the Coachella Valley is in this Santa Ana Wind alert, which is quite rare for that area to receive the winds. Highways I do not recommend traveling would be the west/east or east/west routes in the High or Low Desert from I-8, I-10, I-40, and I-15 – These routes will tip over high profile vehicles. High profile vehicles are semi-trucks and/or campers. Sometimes even a higher SUV could be considered it.
AIRPORTS: Ontario International Airport– Low-level winds around the airport will make for a bumpy ride into it. If you are traveling to this airport you need to be very aware that the airport lies at the center of the wind tunnel this time. The arrival traffic pattern usually reverses out of the west, but as per the SCWF wind model, the west arrival pattern is also blocked with extremely strong winds and shear alerts as the pilot tries to land. so only the most experienced pilots will be able to land the planes then. You very well may be diverted to Las Vegas or Phoenix until the event passes. This is most likely on FRIDAY … mostly morning …
Mariners need to be extremely cautious when going to and from Catalina Island and the Channel Islands through offshore Malibu. I know many instances where someone takes off in a sailboat from Ventura where the wind is a bit calmer and then capsizes when traveling southeast from there offshore Point Mugu or Malibu. The SCWF wind model clearly shows this is not a good idea and I would recommend not going out Thursday night into Friday …
If in the ‘6’ or higher category on this model, do not park your car near trees. People have died when Santa Ana Winds have brought trees down on them in their own cars.
These winds are not for everyone, namely the San Diego Metro areas, where north winds do not affect you, but does affect your mountain zones and also up to Anza where you are in the higher category from rotor winds off Mt. San San Jacinto upwind of your location…
I control 10 counties in Southern California so there is a lot to say for various areas. The best I can do is let the images below speak for themselves.
The maps below are of flood, rain, snow, snow-level, or wind intensity, whichever is available now. Each one is clickable. Map 1 is NW SoCal, Map 2 is SW SoCal, Map 3 is SE SoCal, Map 4 is NE SoCal, Map 5 is the Cajon Pass, and Map 6 is the SCV region, which includes Gorman at the top.
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Santa Ana Wind Forecast – Valid Thursday Evening into Friday 3-10 / 3-11-2022
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Martin Wind Gust Intensity Scale –
8. Extensive widespread damage.
7. Trees are broken or uprooted, building damage is considerable. – High Profile Vehicle Roll-Over CERTAIN.
6. SOME Trees are broken or uprooted, building damage is possible. – High Profile Vehicle Roll-Over Likely, Do NOT recommend Traveling in this zone. This zone also is the starting zone where trees and powerlines will fall and damage cars and even kill people near or in them!
5. Slight damage occurs to buildings, shingles are blown off of roofs. HIGH WIND WARNING CRITERIA – High Profile Vehicle Roll-Over Possible if weight is not corrected.
4. Twigs and small branches are broken from trees, walking is difficult.
3. Large trees sway, becoming difficult to walk. POWER SHUTDOWN THRESHOLD DURING FIRE WEATHER / WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA
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