Just saw this video and it really showed me the craziness.
Very unusual. In the winter and spring Santa Anas are common but that’s more like 20-30 with gusts up to 50. Maybe gusts up to 60 in the canyon areas.
The fires generate their own wind from the convection of hot air rising.
Santa Ana winds are a well known phenomenon out there but I imagine that strong is fairly rare and notable. Large fires will suck in tremendous amounts of air as the hot air rises up. Those fires are burning a massive area
The fire bombings of cities in WW2 created similar firestorms. I remember a history book describing the winds being strong enough to send bodies tumbling through the streets like leaves.
Unfortunately, fire tornadoes are a thing :(
is this, again, that same video that was posted many time on Lemmy like in here :
https://lemmy.world/post/24211759…Showing McDonald Panels and Palm Trees on fire in high noisy wind…
Here is a screenshot :
Video : aprox.(?) 854 x 482 pixels, 15 seconds, 3.79 MegaBytes, mp4 video with sound. Was film from behind some transparent panel ? ( maybe vehicle or shelter ? )I never experienced them when I lived down there for 15 years. But I was in the valley that all the fires currently surround. But yeah that was ages ago. The worst event I experienced was the Northridge earthquake. Global warming is crazy.
