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devil wind

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devil wind

Minor form of tornado, usually occurring in fine weather; formed from rising thermals of warm air (as is a cyclone). A fire creates a similar updraught.

A fire devil or firestorm may occur in oil-refinery fires, or in the firebombings of cities, for example Dresden, Germany, in World War II.



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The Santa Anas - those devil winds - can also mess with people's heads, as writer Joan Didion once noted: ``I have neither heard nor read that a Santa Ana is due, but I know it, and almost everyone I have seen today knows it too.
EDITORIAL AN ILL WIND by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The devil winds that tore through the region came from a dome of high pressure over the Great Basin in Nevada and other Western states, said meteorologist Bill Hoffer of the National Weather Service.
HIGH WINDS SPARK WILDFIRE FEARS FIREFIGHTERS KEEP DAMAGE MINIMAL IN ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Santa Ana winds scorched the Southland on Friday with gusts as high as 50 mph, but this latest round of devil winds was expected to die down by Halloween, forecasters said.
WINDS GUST UP TO 50 MPH by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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