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Title: Santa Ana winds and fog chart
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The upper section of a chart shows the direction taken by the Santa Ana winds coming from a high pressure region in the Nevada desert through the mountain passes to the Los Angeles basin. A second part of the chart traces by the hour the formation of summer morning fog caused by temperature inversions. Chart copied February 8, 1938.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065399
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 306-A 4x5
CARL0000069588
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2724
Subject: Meteorology--California--Los Angeles
Weather
Fog--California--Los Angeles
Maps
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Maps
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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