Santa Ana winds are blowing through California, and parts of the state are at an increased risk of wildfires because of drought.

Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains was placed under an updated wind advisory by the National Weather Service on Thursday ...

After a break in strong winds that helped firefighters make progress against the deadly blazes in Southern California, gusty Santa Ana winds are returning to the region this week, raising the ...

says the Santa Ana winds are most common during the cooler months from September through May. They are caused by high pressure over the desert of the southwestern U.S. that pushes through the mountain ...

Also see: How to prepare for the next Santa Ana wind event The stage is once again set for enormous fire danger because there still is critically dry vegetation, with no real rain since April ...

and the Santa Monica Mountain area. These power shutoffs have been implemented due to SoCal’s wind event as a tool of “last resort” to protect the public, officials said. A team of ...

“Elevated fire weather conditions will be possible both days, but especially Thursday when Santa Ana winds peak,” the agency stated. Temperatures in the Riverside metropolitan area on ...

Canyons also channel the winds. I used to live in the Altadena area, and we would get days during Santa Ana wind events when the wind wasn’t present at all where we lived, but, a few blocks away, the ...