Editing Santa Ana winds (section)

== Name etymology ==
The name ''Santa Ana winds'' comes from the [[Santa Ana Canyon]] in [[Orange County, California|Orange County]], one of the many locations where the winds blow intensely.<ref name="KCET Devil Winds"/><ref name="UCLA explains">{{cite news|url=http://sciencedude.blog.ocregister.com/ucla-explains-the-naming-of-the-santa-ana-winds/|title=UCLA explains the naming of the Santa Ana winds|last=Fovell|first=Robert|newspaper=[[Orange County Register]]|access-date=May 3, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506135137/http://sciencedude.blog.ocregister.com/ucla-explains-the-naming-of-the-santa-ana-winds/|archive-date=May 6, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Vasquez2008" /> Santa Ana Canyon and Santa Ana River, the old Spanish land grant [[Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana]], and the town of [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]] are all so named because the [[Portolá expedition]] entered the river valley on [[Saint Anne]]'s feast day in 1769.{{Sfnp|Stephenson|1943|pp=|p=39}} Newspaper references to the name ''Santa Ana winds'' appear as far back the 1870s and 1880s.{{r|UCLA 2014}} Per the ''[[Riverside Press-Enterprise]]'' in 2020:<ref name="Riverside2020">{{Cite web |last=Lech |first=Steve |date=2020-09-24 |title=How did the Santa Ana winds get their name? |url=https://www.pressenterprise.com/2020/09/24/how-did-the-santa-ana-winds-get-their-name |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=Press Enterprise |language=en-US |publication-place=Riverside, Calif.}}</ref>

{{Quote|text=According to research done by [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] historian Chris Jepsen, the first reported reference to that term comes to us in 1871 from the ''[[Anaheim Gazette]]''. To anyone in what would become Orange County at the time, the winds seem to come out of Santa Ana Canyon, hence the name. However, having Santa Ana winds named for their city did not please the members of the Chamber of Commerce in the [[Santa Ana, California|city of Santa Ana]], and they fought for years to get the name changed.}}
[[File:Principal_tracks_of_Santa_Ana_winds_with_high_barometers_over_interior_sections.jpg|thumb|Santa Ana winds speed through [[Newhall Pass]], [[Cajon Pass]], and [[San Gorgonio Pass]] (''Southland Weather Handbook'', 1962)]]
The name ''Santa Ana wind'' became nationally known following a sensationalized 1901 wire story about wind damage.<ref name="Vasquez2008" /> However because local [[boosterism|boosters]] thought the association of the sometimes-destructive winds with the town would be bad for business, they began claiming that calling the "disagreeable" winds the ''Santa Ana winds'' was "both incorrect and libelous."<ref name="auto1">{{Cite news |date=1921-12-08 |title=Maligning Santa Ana |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-register-maligning-santa-ana/162900584/ |access-date=2025-01-13 |work=The Register |pages=18}}</ref> The chamber of commerce thus began a [[misinformation]] campaign claiming the name was actually "an Indian word" from somewhere.{{Sfnp|Stephenson|1943|pp=37–38}} Supposedly, in their telling, the term ''Santa Ana wind'' derived from a Native American phrase for "big wind" or "devil wind" that was then altered by [[Californios]] into the form "Satanás" (meaning [[Satan]]), and then still later corrupted into "Santa Ana."<ref>{{Cite news |date=1967-11-03 |title=Santa Ana Winds |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-santa-ana-winds/162901077/ |access-date=2025-01-13 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=32}}</ref> However, an authority on local Native American languages claims this supposed Indigenous term, "Santana" or "sandana,"<ref name="auto1"/> never existed.<ref name="UCLA explains" /> No evidence has ever emerged to support this explanation and it is a [[false etymology]].<ref name="Lessard1988" /> Another false association is that the name is a reference to [[Antonio López de Santa Anna|General Santa Anna]] of Mexico and dust clouds kicked up by his cavalry horses.{{Sfnp|Stephenson|1943|pp=37–38}} The ''Santa Ana Journal'' newspaper which battled for years to discourage the association between the winds and the town, published a verse with a 1935 news story on wind impacts that nodded to the "devil winds" nomenclature: "''The devil sends the naughty winds To blow the skirts on high; But God is just and sends the dust To fill the bad man's eye.''"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Santa Ana Journal 18 October 1935 — California Digital Newspaper Collection |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SAJ19351018.2.14 |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu}}</ref>

In 1933, [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|Father]] John O'Connell of [[Mission San Juan Capistrano]] reported that [[Don (honorific)|Don]] Jesus Aguilar, born 1855 at Capistrano, said that in his day the winds had been called ''el viento del norte'' ("the north wind").<ref name="Lessard1988" />