Prevailing winds here usually help me with my homeward commute, which also happens to be entirely uphill. When a good Santa Ana gets going, though, I will take advantage and FLY downhill to work but then usually wind up taking the bus most of the way home. Seeing all those flags snapping and thinking of climbing 12 miles against a 40 mph headwind - no thanks!

Of course when a really good Santa Ana gets going something is usually on fire by the time I am heading home. So it's not just a headwind - it's a crunchy headwind....