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.

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 ...

Fire season continues to drag on with another round of Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions this week. While January typically marks one of the area’s wettest months, the rain has been a no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Forecasters are expecting another Santa Ana wind event this week, threatening to worsen fires and walk back recent containment progress of the Los Angeles wildfires. AccuWeather meteorologists and ...