Powerful Santa Ana winds are returning to the Los Angeles area this week, worrying officials as they work to contain multiple large wildfires.

65 in Fremont Canyon in Orange County's Santa Ana Mountains, and 64 in Deer Canyon in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains in northeastern Orange County. Last week, Santa Ana wind gusts ...

The National Weather Service has issued another rare Particularly Dangerous Situation warning in anticipation of Monday's powerful and potentially damaging Santa Ana wind event. The NWS announced ...

AccuWeather According to The Weather Channel, Santa Ana winds occur when cold air from the Great Basin is squeezed and heated as it is funneled through California's mountain ranges, causing it to ...

Forecasters are expecting another Santa Ana wind event ... mph and 80 mph to mountain regions surrounding L.A. Spreading to Ventura and San Diego, winds are expected to range from 40 mph to ...

As the air descends the Transverse Ranges ... the mountains of Southern California, with the air warming about 5°F per 1,000 ft in elevation change. This explains why Santa Ana winds are usually ...

What are the Santa Ana winds? Santa Ana winds are hot, dry winds that blow in from the northeast. They pick up speed as they hit the mountains ... Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ...

How downsloping winds can add to the threat for wildfires When air rushes down a mountain range, it compresses. Compression is a warming and a drying process. In the case of the Santa Ana winds ...

To revive the population, biologists had to relocate Texas pumas to restore Florida panthers ... in the last viable linkage for lions between the Santa Ana Mountains and the Eastern Peninsular Range.

As high-pressure systems move east to west over the Santa Ana Mountain range, wind is forced down where it’s compressed and warms up. Janice Coen, a project scientist at the National Center for ...

City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll ...