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.

dvt_santa_ana_winds.png If winds several thousand feet above the ground are also from the north or northeast, as they would ...

Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known 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 ...

As they move down the Santa Ana and Sierra Nevada mountains and shoot through valleys, the winds compress — creating a rise in their temperature and a drop in their relative humidity.

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

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

Santa Ana winds, one of the nation's most notorious ... builds over the Great Basin (the high plateau east of the Sierra Nevada), according to meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather ...