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Already this week, wind advisories were issued in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, where sundowner winds delivered gusts of 50 mph overnight Wednesday and Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

But gusty sundowner winds are expected Sunday night and Monday night, further elevating dangerous fire conditions.

They even all generally move in a similar direction, from the northeast to the southwest, or in the case of sundowner winds, from north to south.

Admission there is free on Thursday evenings, which Biesenbach said had drawn thousands of extra visitors, and last summer the museum hosted a “sundowner bar” on its terrace with music and drinks.

It was the so-called "sundowner" moment, when people sit and have a drink at the end of the day, watching the sky turn orange and red as the sun disappears over the horizon.