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

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 ...

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.

Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

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 ...

As another round of wild Santa Ana winds threatens Southern ... The National Weather Service said powerful winds will blow from the Great Basin in Nevada through mountain and canyon passes ...

The Santa Ana wind forecast for Southern California has ... when it hardly snowed in the Sierra Nevada. “It’s a complete block. So everything misses California,” Tardy said of winter storms.