This post was updated Feb. 6 at 6:57 p.m. Sleep slips away on nights when the Santa Ana winds arrive. The rosebush thorns outside my bedroom window scrape against the glass like claws, and dust ...

Trees sway in high winds as the Eaton Fire burns structures Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. Associated Press How Santa Ana winds fueled deadly California fires ...

It was Joan Didion in her 1967 essay, Los Angeles Notebook, who observed that the onset of a Santa Ana wind event is a mood, a queasy, premonitory pit in the stomach. The winds – the high ...

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 ...

(KWTX) -One of the major factors that made the January Los Angeles fires so devastating was the very strong Santa Ana winds. This week we are talking with Alex Tardy, the Warning Coordination ...

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 ...

As another round of wild Santa Ana winds threatens Southern California this week, fire officials across the region say they are pre-deploying strike teams and asking for the public’s help ...

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.

Another bout of strong Santa Ana winds will bring renewed wildfire concerns to several parts of inland Southern California this week, including the San Gorgonio Pass just west of the Coachella Valley.

RELATED: Why is California’s wind blowing so hard in January? Fire crews moved fast, throwing heavy resources at the fires as Santa Ana winds delivered a big, direct hit on San Diego County ...