Dear Author,

your manuscript has been reviewed by two anonymous reviewers. Additionally, there is an additional comment (SC1). Given the reviews, I am returning the manuscript for a major revision. Please consider carefully to the comments by the reviewers and prepare a revised version of the manuscript corresponding to the comments and your replies.
Specifically, some additional analysis based on reanalysis datasets would be very helpful to provide more depth to the manuscript and explain the differences between Sundowner and the Santa Ana winds. Vertical profiles and more detailed local charts would be helpul. This should however not lead to a considerable extension of the manuscript length. Thus, please revise the text and consider condensing other parts of the text to accomodate for these new text passages.
Regarding the literature references, some further references can be accepted but this must occur within reason. Thus, please consider which references are important for the manuscript and avoid multiple references for the same statement.

Looking forward to an updated version of the manuscript

Best regards
Joaquim Pinto

Dear Author,
thanks a lot for the revised version of your manuscript, which has been evaluated by two referees. Based on their comments and my own evaluation I would like to inform you that you paper can now be accepted for publication in NHESS pending technical corrections

best regards
Joaquim Pinto