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 winds become particularly dangerous when combined with other climate conditions such as drought, which ...

The ferocious wildfires turning the Los Angeles area into a raging inferno are being fueled by “hurricane force” Santa Ana ...

Santa Ana winds can bring disruptive impacts to daily life in Los Angeles and parts of southern California, but when coupled ...

Devastating wildfires are quickly blazing through Los Angeles, consuming structures and sending thick smoke into the air.

Santa Anas are created by high pressure over the Great Basin — the vast desert interior of the West overlapping Nevada, parts of Utah and other ... Santa Ana winds pushed the fire south, where ...

A marginal Santa Ana wind event is expected Tuesday ... On Tuesday, Jan. 7, the wind event originated in the Nevada and Utah regions of the Great Basin, where high pressure produced winds that ...

The Santa Ana winds form in a western area of the country known as the Great Basin, which includes Nevada and part of Utah. The basin sits at a higher elevation than Southern California.

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

The National Weather Service has issued an extreme weather warning of a life-threatening and destructive windstorm ...