Elevated fire threat is accompanying the return of Santa Ana winds that are taking aim for Southern California at the beginning of the week. While the Southland’s weather conditions have been ...

WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY AS ANOTHER SANTA ANA PATTERN DEVELOPS. GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL DEVELOP TODAY AND PEAK OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY MORNING.

They also made the blazes fit a pattern. Fires driven by Santa Ana winds, the infamous gusts that howl in over the mountains to the city’s north, account for about 90 percent of the area burned ...

The Santa Ana winds that spread the fires with lightning speed blew with hurricane force. Although nothing can compare to the property damage — much less loss of life — caused by the wind ...

Santa Ana winds are a geographically specific type of wind that occur in Southern California known as katabatic winds. They are cold, dry, down-sloping winds that warm as they descend a mountain side.

Offshore Santa Ana winds will continue to diminish on Thursday. The winds fueling fires in Southern California are beginning to relax, but the forecast calls for their return next week.

The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating Southern California were forecast to return as firefighters scrambled to douse the deadly blazes that have destroyed more than 10,000 homes ...

While the cause of fires remains unknown, the severity and growth of these fires can be attributed to the weather, specifically, the Santa Ana winds. Typically, the winds in Southern California ...

Jon Keeley, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” — Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through it. It’s ...

The forecast for Southern California doesn’t look to be doing anyone any favors either, as the Santa Ana winds set up cranks back to near 100%. The California wildfires as soon from our visible ...