Joan Didion in Berkeley, California, April 1981. Photo by Janet Fries/Getty Images We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article.

Joan Didion wrote three haunting essays about them; the New York Times once said that “a dry, hot Santa Ana often symbolizes an unnamable menace lying just beneath the sun-shot surface of ...

While we haven’t seen Santa Ana-level wind speeds, the winds at Meacham Airport averaged more 21 mph over a 17-hour period on Tuesday, with gusts up to 44 mph.

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It was Joan Didion in her 1967 essay, Los Angeles Notebook, who observed that the onset of a Santa Ana wind event is a mood, a queasy, premonitory pit in the stomach. The winds – the high ...

First came the Joan Didion quotes about the fire-stoking Santa Ana winds (“I recall being told, when I first moved to Los Angeles and was living on an isolated beach, that the Indians would ...

“The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself. . . . The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” This was Joan Didion writing in 1968 on the effect that the Santa Ana winds have had ...

" (T)he violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability," wrote Joan Didion. "The winds show us ...

Those same Santa Anas, which blow dry air from the Great Basin to the California coast, fueled this month's ruinous wildfires. "Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan ...

There are Santa Ana winds. “It is hard,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1967 essay “Los Angeles Notebook,” “for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana ...

“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are,” Joan Didion once observed in her essay “Los Angeles Notebook.” The Santa Anas typically occur during the fall.

According to the Cultural Wikipedia, the Santa Ana winds are mentioned in “Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories” (1938) by Raymond Chandler: “There was a desert wind blowing that night.