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.

Between avalanches, geysers, and katabatic winds, the Martian spring has been packing all the worst weather events into its small northern ice cap. November 12 marked the new year on Mars ...

The downhill winds produced are called katabatic winds. They do an efficient job controlling the maximum temperatures on the surface of the glaciers, which occur namely during the summer.

Geography and gravity combine here to unleash powerful katabatic winds—dense waves of cold air that rush down mountain corridors like avalanches tumbling toward the sea. The next blast hits.

Known as "devil winds" or "katabatic winds," Greek for "flowing downhill," Santa Ana winds form from cool and dry high-pressure air mass areas in the so-called Great Basin of Central California.

It was a kind of wind I had never experienced before. The windiest continent certainly lived up to its name. This phenomenon, known as a katabatic wind, happens because the density of the air varies.

According to an article published in LiveScience, the men are braving freezing temperatures and katabatic winds up to the recorded maximum of 320 km/h as they make their way across the continent ...