The winds fueling Southern California wildfires form when a high-pressure system develops over the Great Basin in Utah and ...

The winds are common in California in the colder months, but they can sometimes help spread dangerous wildfires.

The Santa Ana wind forecast for Southern California has worsened, and forecasters now expect to issue a red flag fire weather ...

dvt_santa_ana_winds.png If winds several thousand feet above the ground are also from the north or northeast, as they would ...

Topography matters, too — treeless mountain peaks are typically windier without those trees, or buildings, to slow the winds. And different parts of Earth — water and land — heat from sunlight at ...

Devastating fires in the Los Angeles region are driven by Santa Ana winds blowing from California and Nevada’s interior ...

Helping drive the wildfires in Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the ...

The devastating fires across Southern California are being driven by the Santa Ana winds, as incredibly dry and windy ...

The weather set-up is key to the Santa Ana winds blowing. They occur when a large area of high pressure becomes established ...