Discover why Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth, with an average annual precipitation of just 50 millimetres.

The recent Southern California wildfires, whipped out of control by strong “Santa Ana winds,” erased peoples’ lives and ...

Southern California is facing fierce fires fueled by the Santa Ana winds, which threaten homes and put firefighters to the ...

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BUT, YOU KNOW, AN OFFSHORE WOULD PUSH IT INTO THE WATER. SO RIGHT NOW THE PROBLEM IS THAT OUR SURFACE WINDS, YES, ARE CALM AND RELATIVELY COMING IN FROM THE SOUTH AND THE WEST, BUT IT’S THOSE ...

Santa Ana winds are a geographically specific type of wind that occur in Southern California known as katabatic winds. They are cold, dry, down-sloping winds that warm as they descend a mountain side.

At the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, researchers Marco Giometto and Adrian Brügger from Columbia Engineering and Indrani Das from Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory aim to ...

Days before hurricane-force Santa Ana wind gusts fueled fires that devastated Los Angeles, meteorologists posted eerily accurate warnings that such a scenario was possible. But they’ve had a ...

Offshore Santa Ana winds will continue to diminish on Thursday. The winds fueling fires in Southern California are beginning to relax, but the forecast calls for their return next week.

While the cause of fires remains unknown, the severity and growth of these fires can be attributed to the weather, specifically, the Santa Ana winds. Typically, the winds in Southern California ...

This live coverage has ended. For the latest updates, please go here. Strong winds are expected to wane as night approaches in the Los Angeles area Wednesday, as firefighters battle to contain the ...

Fire absolutely loves it when that happens. “We call those downslope winds,” says Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...