What causes the Santa Ana winds? The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region sees about 10 Santa Ana wind events a year on ...

Then the strong Santa Ana winds blowing in the area created a condition that allowed these fires to take off and spread quickly. What are the Santa Ana winds? The Santa Ana winds are an intermittent ...

A Santa Ana winds forecast map by AccuWeather. It predicts 40-60 mph gusts and warns of extreme fire risk. AccuWeather. According to The Weather Channel, Santa Ana winds occur when cold air from ...

Santa Ana winds are happening later and later in the year, moving more from the drier fall to the wetter winter, Keeley said. Normally, that would reduce fire threats, but this isn’t a normal ...

Three large wildfires—driven by ferocious Santa Ana winds—are tearing through Southern California, forcing tens of thousands to flee and shrouding Los Angeles in smoke. The Palisades, Eaton ...

Santa Ana winds are caused when "air from a region of high pressure over the dry, desert region of the southwestern U.S. flows westward towards low pressure located off the California coast," the ...

Santa Ana wind events aren’t new, but we’re seeing them more often this time of year. My colleagues and I recently published a paper comparing 71 years of Santa Ana wind events , starting in 1948.

Written by Jon Keeley, University of California, Los Angeles. Powerful Santa Ana winds, near hurricane strength at times, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and pushed wildfires into ...