Southern California is facing fierce fires fueled by the Santa Ana winds, which threaten homes and put firefighters to the ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region ...

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 ...

The majority of weather alerts issued for Southern California - including several Red Flag Warnings - have expired as Santa Ana winds relax. The next Santa Ana wind event is expected to return ...

The reason for the start of the California wildfires is in part due to the Santa-Ana winds. These form over the Sierra mountains when high pressure builds in from the east. Air pushes down the ...

As the L.A. fires rage, we’re reminded of movies, books and songs that speak to the city’s love-hate relationship with the forces that shape it.

There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... of essays “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” without at least one eye on the ...

(Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP)(AFP) Dry Santa Ana wind gusts of 45 to 70 miles ... not just in Los Angeles but also in other Southern California counties that were also under elevated fire ...

The Santa Ana winds have been a major factor in the spread of the Los Angeles wildfires. The National asks Prof. Janine Baijnath-Rodino, director of meteorology at UCLA, to break down why the ...

a natural phenomenon in California, which can worsen forest fires Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out ...

Here’s why these wind patterns can be so destructive. The Santa Ana winds (named for a canyon in Southern California) are abrupt bursts of dry, hot air blowing into the Los Angeles region from ...

A red flag warning was in effect late on Monday as dry, dangerous Santa Ana winds picked up speed ... crews in Los Angeles and other Southern California counties that were under elevated fire ...