Santa Ana winds in Southern California are often-fierce winds that topple power lines and trees and can turn a spark into a ...

Katabatic winds? Adiabatic compression? Time for a thermodynamics lesson! The record lack of rain has also made this Santa Ana event different.

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

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

Firefighters from Northern California and neighboring Arizona have been sent to Southern California as out-of-control fires ...

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 ...

The strongest Santa Ana winds of the season could bring a fire threat this week to Southern California, which hasn’t seen ...

Santa Ana wind events are actually strongest and ... In a typical La Niña winter setup, Northern California sees wetter-than-average rain and snow, while Southern California sees drier-than ...

One of the biggest stories of 2025 thus far has been the wildfires in California. A common occurrence in that state, ...

LOS ANGELES — Santa Ana winds are common in Southern California during cooler months ... Victor Gensini, a Northern Illinois University climate scientist, was more emphatic.

When the wind rushes into Southern California from the northeast, as it does during a Santa Ana, it's coming from ... from high winds.Victor Gensini, a Northern Illinois University climate ...