Editing Santa Ana winds (section)

== In popular culture ==
Santa Ana winds are widely believed to affect people's moods and behavior.<ref>[http://pool35-225.pool.nsf.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop;jsessionid=hdYJShnGlKYpvBT2swfHpNXC1QQ2r1JvmK6QldJT7fz1f6RXn2XK!941996275!-1826466010?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=assetsInTheStates_1&_urlType=action&wlpassetsInTheStates_1_action=selectAwardDetail&wlpassetsInTheStates_1_id=%2FresearchGov/AwardHighlight/PublicAffairs/ALT003_StudyingtheDustKickedupbytheSantaAnas.html Studying the Dust Kicked up by the Santa Anas] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304235808/http://pool35-225.pool.nsf.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop;jsessionid=hdYJShnGlKYpvBT2swfHpNXC1QQ2r1JvmK6QldJT7fz1f6RXn2XK!941996275!-1826466010?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=assetsInTheStates_1&_urlType=action&wlpassetsInTheStates_1_action=selectAwardDetail&wlpassetsInTheStates_1_id=%2FresearchGov%2FAwardHighlight%2FPublicAffairs%2FALT003_StudyingtheDustKickedupbytheSantaAnas.html|date=2016-03-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Walter |date=6 October 1981 |title=Ions Created by Winds May Prompt Changes in Emotional States |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/06/science/ions-created-by-winds-may-prompt-changes-in-emotional-states.html}}</ref><ref name="The Devil Winds Made Me Do It"/> The Santa Ana winds are commonly portrayed in fiction as being responsible for a tense, uneasy, wrathful mood among Angelenos.<ref name="KCET Devil Winds" /><ref name="PPL2017">{{Cite web |last=Shauna |date=2017-10-25 |title=On Edge: The Santa Ana Winds in Literature |url=http://pasadena-library.net/adult_services/2017/the-santa-ana-winds-in-literature/ |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=Pasadena Public Library: On the Shelf |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Ulin2014">{{Cite web |last=Ulin |first=David L. |date=2014-05-14 |title=The Santa Ana winds and the literature of Los Angeles |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-santa-ana-and-the-literature-of-los-angeles-20140514-story.html |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> The winds blow things over and "make loud noises," which can set people on edge.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1975-11-25 |title=Evil Santa Ana wind takes kooks by storm (part 1 of 2) |first=Jerry |last=Buck |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-telegram-evil-santa-ana-wind-takes/162898947/ |access-date=2025-01-13 |work=Long Beach Press-Telegram |page=1}} & {{Cite news |date=1975-11-25 |title=Evil Santa Ana Winds (part 2 of 2) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-telegram-evil-santa-ana-winds-par/162898838/ |page=12}}</ref> As ''[[The New York Times]]'' put it in 2003, "a dry, hot Santa Ana often symbolizes an unnamable menace lying just beneath the sun-shot surface of California life."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2003-11-02 |title=PAGE TWO: THE READING FILE; In L.A., When the Wind Howls, So Do the Writers |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/weekinreview/page-two-the-reading-file-in-la-when-the-wind-howls-so-do-the-writers.html |access-date=2023-03-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> According to the {{ill|Pasadena Public Library|qid=Q57733524}} book blog, the winds notably appear in [[Richard Henry Dana Jr.|Richard Henry Dana]]'s ''[[Two Years Before the Mast]]'', the [[Philip Marlowe]] story "Red Wind" by [[Raymond Chandler]], three essays by [[Joan Didion]] ("Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" and "Los Angeles Notebook", both included in her 1968 book ''[[Slouching Towards Bethlehem]]'', and "Fire Season", included in her 1992 book ''[[After Henry (book)|After Henry]]''), ''The Husband'' by [[Dean Koontz]], ''[[White Oleander]]'' by [[Janet Fitch]], and ''[[Less than Zero (novel)|Less than Zero]]'' by [[Bret Easton Ellis]].<ref name="PPL2017" /> In [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s 2009 "California novel" ''[[Inherent Vice]]'' the winds make an appearance and, per one scholar, "the obligatory [[Film noir|noir]] description of their effects appears on page 98."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Miller |first=John |date=2013-07-03 |title=Present Subjunctive: Pynchon's California Novels |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00111619.2011.578685 |journal=Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction |language=en |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=225–237 |doi=10.1080/00111619.2011.578685 |s2cid=144183947 |issn=0011-1619}}</ref> 

''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' columnist David L. Ulin commented, "...for writers such as Didion and Chandler, the Santa Ana is an emblem of disruption because, for them, Los Angeles is a disrupted world. We can take issue with that impression of the city; I sometimes do and sometimes don't. But when the Santa Ana starts to blow, I invariably grow edgy...unable, in the most concrete sense, to settle myself down."<ref name="Ulin2014" />

{{cquote|text=There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.|author=Raymond Chandler|source="Red Wind" (1938)}}

{{cquote|text=The baby frets. The maid sulks. I rekindle a waning argument with the telephone company, then cut my losses and lie down, given over to whatever is in the air. To live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior.

{{omission}} [T]he violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.|author=Joan Didion|source="Los Angeles Notebook" in ''Slouching Towards Bethlehem'' (1968)}}

{{poemquote|
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder winds
So many lives are on the breeze/ Even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning.|author=[[Bad Religion]]|source="[[Los Angeles Is Burning]]" (2004)}}

Some of this experienced mood shift is likely due to the increase of [[static electricity]] in dry conditions.<ref name="Vasquez2008" /> [[California folklore]] therefore credits the winds with "strange luminosity in the form of sparks and glows that accompany the winds" and an excess of "positive [[ions]], disrupting health, well-being, and temperament."<ref name="Vasquez2008" />

=== Song references ===

* [[Ben Lee]]'s single "[[Catch My Disease]]"
* [[The Sloppy Boys]]' opening track "Santa Ana Winds" on their sophomore album "Dancing on the Wind"
* [[Steely Dan]]'s song "[[Gaucho (album)|Babylon Sisters]]" ("Here come those Santa Ana winds again...Bad news.")
* [[Belinda Carlisle]] song "[[Summer Rain (Belinda Carlisle song)|Summer Rain]]"
* [[The Beach Boys]] song "Santa Ana Winds"
* [[The Bobs]]' song "Santa Ana Woman"
* [[Randy Newman]] song "[[I Love L.A.]]"
* [[Eric Church]]'s song "Heart of the Night" on his album ''Heart''
* Old Dominion's song "Make It Sweet"
* Waylon Payne in his song "Santa Ana Winds"
* [[Survivor (band)|Survivor]]'s "Santa Ana Winds" is the final track from their 1983 album ''[[Caught in the Game]]''
* [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s song "Western Stars" from his 2019 album ''[[Western Stars]]''
* Lagrimas' song "the devil wind" from their 2019 demo
* Modern Original and The Mowgli's song "C O O L Santa Ana" (2022)
* Rancid's song "Brad Logan" from Chef Aid : The South Park Album (1998).
* Michael McDonald's song "Homeboy" from his 1990 album ''[[Take It to Heart]]''
* She Wants Revenge's song "Up in Flames" (2011)
* [[Mew (band)|Mew]]'s song "The Zookeeper's Boy" (2006)
* [[Mark Knopfler|Mark Knopfler's]] song "Smart Money" from the album [[One Deep River]] (2024)
* [[Emei (musician)|Emei]]'s song "Scatterbrain" (2023)
* [[Bad Religion]]'s song "[[Los Angeles Is Burning]]" from the album [[The Empire Strikes First]] (2004)
* [[Animal Logic (band)|Animal Logic]]'s song "Winds of Santa Ana" from the album [[Animal Logic (album)|Animal Logic]] (1989)
* [[Lana Del Rey]]'s song "California" from the album [[Norman Fucking Rockwell!]] (2019)
* [[The Swirling Eddies]]' song "Hold Back the Wind, Donna, from [[Outdoor Elvis]]. (1989)
* [[Crazy Ex-Girlfriend]] (TV series) “Santa Ana Winds” song in s2,ep11 (2017)