Just a month after fierce Santa Ana winds propelled a firestorm across Los Angeles County, residents faced another extreme ...

County authorities reported more than 120 outdoor fires last month – at least double that of any other January in the past ...

Santa Ana winds are whipping Southern California on Tuesday, sparking fresh fears that progress made fighting wildfires that ...

Now entirely contained, the Los Angeles County fires should not be allowed to fade into the history books, chalked up to yet ...

And in Southern California, another round of Santa Ana winds racing through the smoldering fires of greater Los Angeles − combined with dry conditions − drew new concerns. ∎ Richard Bann, a National ...

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.

As winds across the Southern California area are calmer than their peak and firefighters are making progress, the threat to the fire-weary region remains with Santa Ana winds expected to continue ...

They also made the blazes fit a pattern. 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 ...

Elevated fire threat is accompanying the return of Santa Ana winds that are taking aim for Southern California at the beginning of the week. While the Southland’s weather conditions have been ...

WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY AS ANOTHER SANTA ANA PATTERN DEVELOPS. GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL DEVELOP TODAY AND PEAK OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY MORNING.