How do the Santa Ana winds form? The winds are created by high pressure over the Great Basin — a desert region that spans several states, including California, Nevada, Oregon and Utah.

Santa Ana windstorms happen regularly in Southern ... Gaps in the mountains form wind tunnels The wind speeds up as it pours over the mountains, particularly where it is forced through passes ...

Santa Ana winds are returning to San Diego County Wednesday evening, surging temperatures and prompting a wind advisory for ...

Jon Keeley, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

The Santa Ana winds that spread the fires with lightning ... It is famous for its rapid growth into a perfect umbrella form but, within a decade or less, branches will start dying back.

Weak Santa Ana winds Thursday and Friday will continue to warm us up and dry us out into the weekend. Winds will remain below advisory level with top gusts 25 miles per hour for mountains and ...

A strong Santa Ana wind event is bringing extreme fire danger to Southern California this week, starting with Monday's evening forecast. KTLA's Sandra Mitchell catches the beginning of the windy ...

Shifting weather patterns will produce a taste of summer, along with stiff Santa Ana winds, followed by a cooling trend and the possibility of rain throughout the Inland Empire this week and ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — It’s hard to beat the current weather as sunshine and weak offshore flow warms up San Diego County into the weekend. Patchy dense fog impacted the coastline and some ...