It also has development centers at Singapore, Santa Ana, California, and Linz, Austria.

Nearly all of the very large wildfires are caused by human activity during periods of very hot, dry easterly Santa Ana winds.

Category: Santa Ana Mountains

Rohrabacher's district covers the areas of Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Seal Beach, Avalon, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Palos Verdes Estates and Rolling Hills Estates as well as portions of Long Beach, Westminster, Santa Ana and San Pedro.

The westernmost group, near the Guatemalan border, contains Izalco and Santa Ana, which at 2, 365 meters is the highest volcano in El Salvador.

His mother took her three children: Jocelyn ( 1919 – 2005 ), Frances ( 1922 – 1994 ) and Marlon, to live with her mother in Santa Ana, California.

Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker, is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.

In 1995, an effort was made to re-introduce Rickenbacker acoustics, with factory production beginning in their Santa Ana manufacturing facility in 1996.

Category: Companies based in Santa Ana, California

* The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, California

Choiseul, the Shortland Islands, the New Georgia Islands, Santa Isabel, the Russell Islands, the Florida Islands, Malaita, Guadalcanal, Sikaiana, Maramasike, Ulawa, Uki, Makira ( San Cristobal ), Santa Ana, Rennell, Bellona and the Santa Cruz Islands.

Between 1687 and 1700 several missions were founded in Trinidad and Tobago, but only four survived as Amerindian villages throughout the eighteenth century – La Anuncíata de Nazaret de Savana Grande ( modern Princes Town ), Purísima Concepción de María Santísima de Guayri ( modern San Fernando ), Santa Ana de Savaneta ( modern Savonetta ), Nuestra Señora de Montserrate ( probably modern Mayo ).

Cast: Diego Peretti, Alejandra Radano, Guillermo Angelelli, María Roji, Muriel Santa Ana, Walter Santana, Alejandra Perlusky, Gustavo Monje, Laura Silva, Jorge Nolasco

For example, in the United States, California's Oakland ( KOAK ), Monterey ( KMRY ) and Santa Ana ( KSNA ) airports routinely grant temporary IFR clearance when a low coastal overcast forces instrument approaches, while the rest of the state is still under visual flight rules.

* Trinity Law School, in Santa Ana, California, US

* Boojum ( Fouquieria columnaris ) at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden – Claremont, California

* Santa Ana ( disambiguation )

* ACME Communications, a television broadcasting company, based in Santa Ana, USA

The city is located southwest and northeast of the San Diego Freeway ( Interstate 405 ), which diagonally bisects the city, and is surrounded by Huntington Beach on the south and west, Westminster and Garden Grove on the north, Santa Ana on the northeast, and Costa Mesa on the southeast.

Its eastern border is the Santa Ana River.

The Orange County Sanitation District's primary plant is located in Fountain Valley next to the Santa Ana River.

However, in recent years, the city has seen an increase in commercial jobs in the city, with the growth of a commercial center near the Santa Ana River known as the " Southpark " district.

The Hopi language is Uto-Aztecan ; Zuñi is a language isolate ; Keresan is a dialect continuum that includes Acoma, Laguna, Santa Ana, Zia, Cochiti, Santo Domingo, San Felipe.

When the wind blows from inland, the resulting hot dry foehn winds are called the Santa Ana Winds.

The Santa Ana winds sweep down from the deserts and across coastal southern California, pushing dust and smoke from wildfires far out over the Pacific Ocean.

The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry offshore winds that affect coastal Southern California and northern Baja California in autumn and winter.

The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as " Strong down slope winds that blow through the mountain passes in southern California.

The southern California coastal region gets some of its hottest weather of the year during autumn while Santa Ana winds are blowing.

QuikSCAT image showing the speed of the Santa Ana winds ( m / s ).

The Santa Ana winds do not originate in precipitation, but in the bone-dry high deserts.

The combination of wind, heat, and dryness accompanying the Santa Ana winds turns the chaparral into explosive fuel feeding the infamous wildfires for which the region is known.

Wildfires fanned by Santa Ana winds burned in two weeks during October 2003.

During the Santa Ana winds, large ocean waves can develop.

In strong Santa Ana conditions, these harbors develop high surf and strong winds that can tear boats from their moorings and crash them onto the shore.

When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers ( 1. 25-1. 8 miles ) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the lower atmosphere continues to be dry.

When the Santa Ana winds cease, the cool and moist marine layer forms rapidly.

The similar winds in the Santa Barbara area occur most frequently in the late spring to early summer, and are strongest at sunset, or " sundown ," hence their name, sundowner.

Like the Santa Ana, these winds also heat up by compression and lose humidity, but since they start out so extraordinarily cold and dry and blow over snow and ice all the way to the sea, the perceived similarity is negligible.

The Santa Ana winds were also a factor in the November 2008 California wildfires.

" The name " Santa Ana Winds " is said to be traced to Spanish California, when the winds were called devil winds due to their heat.

Santa Ana winds may get their name from the Santa Ana Mountains in Orange County, the Santa Ana River or Santa Ana Canyon, along which the winds are particularly strong.