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Sep 21, 2016 7:22 PM in response to Firp1943by John Galt,Please read Apps can affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity - Apple Support.
Identify any processes that seem to be using an inordinate amount of CPU time.
If you can find no reason for the fan noise — in other words, if Activity Monitor fails to identify any particular burdensome processes — then an SMC Reset is justified: Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support.
Excerpted from that document:
Indicators that your SMC might need to be reset
... The computer fans run at high speed, though the computer is not experiencing heavy usage and is properly ventilated.