The winds also are said to presage earthquakes. The spores of the fungus that cause Valley Fever are blown in on the Santa Ana winds. The winds are portrayed by Eric Michael Roy. The dry winds of October and early November are the engines of tragedy. Santa Ana winds are fanning several large fires in Southern California and have prompted the National Weather Service to issue an extreme fire warning through Saturday. The Santa Ana Winds. The service warns of … Perhaps most memorably, author Joan Didion described the haunting nature of the Santa Ana winds in her essay, "Los Angeles Notebook." In the 2006 film The Holiday, the Santa Ana winds are constantly shown, and Jack Black's character 'Miles' mentions that when they blow, "all bets are off" and "anything can happen". The Santa Ana winds are personified in The CW musical series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as a prankster narrator responsible for main characters and enemies Rebecca and Nathaniel kissing for the first time. Named after Southern California's Santa Ana Canyon and a fixture of local legend and literature, the Santa Ana is a blustery, dry and warm (often hot) wind that blows out of the desert. When the winds came, they destroyed crops and suffocated urbanized areas with dust -- a phenomenon that fed the growing misconception of Los Angeles as a desert. The Santa Anas funnel into the orderly green of the Los Angeles Basin all the haunted and brown emptiness that lies outside. Agriculture dominated the Southern California landscape for much of its history, and the prospect of Santa Ana winds haunted farmers and orange growers. A song titled 'Santa Ana Winds' is sung in a doo-wop style, which educates the viewer on the winds itself. The legend of the Santa Ana winds has infused both residents and storytellers in Los Angeles for decades. In the 1995 film My Family, the Santa Ana Winds are mentioned in the sequence when Chucho (Esai Morales), a gang member, is shot dead by the LAPD.