Santa Ana windstorms happen regularly in Southern California, but experts say the current winds are stronger than usual. These winds occur when a high-pressure system forms over the deserts of the ...

Santa Ana winds could bring a serious fire weather threat this week. Pacific storms that typically arrive by November or December to end the fire season have instead targeted Northern California ...

Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests ...

A serious wildfire situation has unfolded for coastal areas of Southern California as a powerful Santa Ana event that ... into part of the zone from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia and New ...

the winds have long caused problems in southern California. The 2017 Thomas Fire, which destroyed more than 1,000 structures, was fueled in part by back-to-back Santa Ana winds. The Washington ...

Each year California experiences the Santa Ana winds, usually in the cooler ... California, Oregon, and Washington now experience fire weather more than twice as often compared to 1973.

Southern California is braced for "extremely critical fire conditions" caused by a new period of Santa Ana winds today ... an area the size of Washington, D.C. “I want the President-elect ...

Over the next few days and weeks, one thing that is as sure as the sunrise is that political leaders, such as California Gov ... known about the seasonal Santa Ana winds and the wildfires they ...

Still, the fires have consumed an area the size of Washington, D.C. A fleet ... Southern California has lacked any appreciable rain since April, turning brush into tinder as Santa Ana winds ...

22 (UPI) --Millions of California residents were placed under ... Kamala Harris flew to Los Angeles Monday after leaving Washington to visit a fire station and distribute food and aid to the ...