The Santa Ana winds fanned the blaze and blew clouds of dark smoke over homes and strawberry fields to the south.

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Clouds and storms form along it because it is literally where the winds of the world's hemispheres meet.

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Sooner or later, the clouds carrying them will open and drop their strange cargo - resulting in a hail of fish, frogs or whatever the winds happened to pick up.

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