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So you may have been hearing about how the wildfires in Los Angeles are connected to the Santa Ana winds.
These winds blow every year, but meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Los Angeles anticipated this week's windstorm would, quote, likely be the most destructive in over a decade.
The winds picked up Tuesday morning.
It is completely hazy, dark, sparking several fires across LA County.
We've seen palm trees on fire.
We've seen especially in canyon slopes where the wind dropped the humidity, basically the.
Moisture and rain gets squeezed out of these systems right on those same slopes where the Santa Ana winds blow the hardest.
We talked to Alexander Gershonov about this.
He's a research meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
And he says that last winter was really wet and vegetation flourished, but this year the LA area has received very little rain for months.
Specifically in that region where the wildfires are right now, you have a lot of vegetation dry and ready to burn and that's exactly where you get the strongest Santa Ana wind.