The strong winds fueling the devastating Southern California wildfires start in the Great Basin that includes Utah and Nevada ...

Topography matters, too — treeless mountain peaks are typically windier without those trees, or buildings, to slow the winds.

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

The Santa Ana wind forecast for Southern California has worsened, and forecasters now expect to issue a red flag fire weather ...

With high pressure building over the Great Basin (an area around Nevada, Utah and Idaho), Santa Ana winds are set to ...

Here’s what to know about the winds. The Santa Ana winds are the strong, dry and often warm winds that blow west from Nevada and Utah to Southern California. The winds occur in the colder months ...

Santa Ana winds, which are common in Southern California ... including California, Nevada, Oregon and Utah. As the air squeezes through the mountain ranges and canyons that separate the desert ...

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

“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill and Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis are among those evacuating their homes as fires continue to ...

The windstorms occur when cold air gathers in the neighboring states of Nevada and Utah ... move down the Santa Ana and Sierra Nevada mountains and shoot through valleys, the winds compress ...

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