Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Santa Ana winds are common in Southern ... in a clockwise direction toward Southern California, where it must get past towering mountain ranges that separate the desert ...

A major Santa Ana ... mountain foothills. The strongest winds are expected through mid-afternoon Wednesday. Winds will slacken on Thursday, but remain gusty in parts of Southern California.

Santa Ana winds can lead to all of these and ... worsening the magnitude of the event. Southern California's mountains don't allow these north-to-northeast winds to simply flow from the high ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region sees about 10 Santa Ana wind events a year on average, typically occurring ...

Added to these factors were Santa Ana windstorms that fan flames and carry potentially dangerous embers. Santa Ana windstorms happen regularly in Southern California, but experts say the current ...

Context:3 reasons California's wildfires ... above 2,000 feet in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains Tuesday night." Unfortunately it looks like another Santa Ana event is on tap for ...