The Santa Ana winds tend to cause the same corridors to burn over and over again. Experts say the region needs to adapt.

As they move down the Santa Ana and Sierra Nevada mountains and shoot through valleys, the winds compress—creating a rise in their temperature and a drop in their relative humidity. With hot ...

Answer: The Santa Ana ... Winds blow clockwise around a high-pressure system. The winds move south and west into southern California, where they descend over the inland Sierra mountains.

The reason for the start of the California wildfires is in part due to the Santa-Ana winds. These form over the Sierra mountains when high pressure builds in from the east. Air pushes down the ...

Containing wildfires—never mind extinguishing them—in parched and windy conditions can be monstrously difficult. Dry vegetation is rocket fuel for blazes and wind both feeds the flames and spreads the ...

The topography of Southern California also plays a major role in the development of Santa Ana winds. Once winds reach the Inland Sierra Mountains, the moving air is pushed down and compressed.

When the wind rushes into Southern California from the northeast, as it does during a Santa Ana, it's coming from Nevada and western Utah, over and between the mountains in between. High pressure ...

Los Angeles is reeling from an extreme Santa ... wind as it descends the mountains of Southern California, with the air warming about 5°F per 1,000 ft in elevation change. This explains why Santa ...

The Santa Ana winds, sometimes referred to as the "devil winds," arise at higher altitudes and blow down toward sea level. The strong, dry and often warm winds blow west from Utah and Nevada to ...

Even after days of unwavering efforts to contain the devastating wildfires in California's Los Angeles, firefighters are still bracing for dangerous Santa Ana high winds which are expected to fuel ...