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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Another wave of Santa Ana winds arrive Saturday ... bumping into a ridge of high pressure settling over the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada, creating a "tight" pressure gradient that will produce ...

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

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 ...

Wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph in the mountains and 30 to 50 mph on the coasts and valleys are forecast for Los Angeles and ...