Multiple wildfires are currently raging through Los Angeles County, forcing evacuations and destroying neighborhoods. A long dry summer created ample fuel that has combined with a lack of rainfall ...

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

The relentless California wildfires continue to ravage the Los Angeles area, with the Palisades and Eaton fires scorching a ...

SANTA MONICA ... dry area over Nevada and Utah, east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Great Basin can often act as a bowl as high pressure (sinking air) builds overhead. Winds will move ...

So far, the strongest winds recorded during the fires were around 100 miles per hour, which is considered hurricane-force strength. The strong Santa Ana winds are still expected to remain throughout ...

A renewed surge of Santa Ana winds will create dangerous fire weather in southern California over the next few days.

The winds from hell ... high plateau east of the Sierra Nevada), according to meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services. Santa Anas then blow over the mountains between the deserts ...

Santa Ana winds are one of the nation's most notorious wind events and an ongoing weather hazard in Southern California.

The flames are being fueled by 100 mph wind gusts -- a phenomenon in Southern California known as the Santa Ana ... to the east of the Sierra Nevada range, the towering mountains that run up ...

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.