Around 4 am this morning as my wife and I were dozing, within a mnute or so, the wind whipped up to 30, 40 miles an hour I estimate.  I got up to shut the windows, and in the 5 minutes or so of going around it settled back down to almost no breeze at all again.  We are just outside Murrieta, CA about 20 miles inland from San Juan Capistrano across the hills and on top of the hill at 2300’ and look out over the Temecula valley below.  We have experienced high winds before, but never so suddenly from nothing, to gales, to nothing.  Any thoughts on the phenomenon?   (I figure there must be some amateur meteorologists in the LML group.)

Thanks,
Charles Patton
LNC2   N360JM