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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

More than 100,000 LA residents have been evacuated from their homes and about 29,000 acres (11,300 hectares) have been burned ...

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