A rare Particularly Dangerous Situation warning has been issued for Southern California as a powerful and potentially ...

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

The Santa Anas are expected to be most powerful Monday night into Tuesday. Fire services across the region say they are ready ...

At least five wildfires are ravaging Southern California, and the three largest have already killed at least five people, ...

Firefighters in Southern California are once again battling a wildfire, this time in Castaic in Los Angeles County, north of ...

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

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

The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating Southern California were forecast to return as firefighters scrambled to douse the deadly blazes that have destroyed more than 10,000 homes ...

Despite dangerous wind conditions, fire crews made quick work of a brush fire near the Griffith Observatory. The extreme ...

explains what causes extreme winds like this in Southern California, and why they create such a dangerous fire risk. The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the ...

This process is what is thermodynamically known as katabatic wind, but in the specific case of Southern California is referred to as the Santa Ana winds. As the air descends the Transverse Ranges ...