Santa Ana winds generally blow from the east/northeast and persist due to a high pressure system over an area called the Great Basin, bordered on the south by the Mojave Desert, and low pressure ...

Fires driven by Santa Ana winds, the infamous gusts that howl in over the mountains to the city’s north, account for about 90 percent of the area burned by fall and winter wildfires in Southern ...

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires also continue burning in the Los Angeles area, leaving parts of Southern California with devastating fire damage.

The Hughes Fire has spread over 8,096 acres after starting just before lunchtime in Los Angeles County's Castaic Lake area on Wednesday.

The Santa Ana winds that spread the fires with lightning ... there is a legal mandate to maintain defensible space — the area around a structure which must meet certain brush clearance and ...

Answer: The Santa Ana winds have everything to do with weather. It starts with a high-pressure area over the Great Basin. That’s a huge area, spanning much of Nevada, Utah and parts of ...

The forecast for Southern California doesn’t look to be doing anyone any favors either, as the Santa Ana winds set up cranks ... suggest the development of an area of low pressure in the western ...

WIND ADVISORIES AND WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR ALL THE USUAL SANTA ANA AREAS. AS USUAL THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE MOST OF THE LA METRO AREA OR THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY. SO FAR WINDS HAVE MOSTLY BEEN AT ...

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 ...