The winds fueling Southern California wildfires form when a high-pressure system develops over the Great Basin in Utah and ...

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

Topography matters, too — treeless mountain peaks are typically windier without those trees, or buildings, to slow the winds. And different parts of Earth — water and land — heat from sunlight at ...

Helping drive the wildfires in Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the ...

As another round of wild Santa Ana winds threatens Southern California this week, fire officials across the region say they ...

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. With hot ...

There's a growing risk that significant fire weather could return in Los Angeles and Ventura counties starting early next week.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern ...